Counselling

Counselling tends to deal with specific issues or a concern that may have arisen more recently e.g. relationship breakdown, grief, financial difficulties, illness, etc., and can support the individual to take positive steps to cope and resolve those issues. Counselling also helps a person to explore their potential and create necessary changes in their life. Usually, it’s a shorter term process than psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is a longer term process that focuses on the restructuring of the personality or self—both conscious and unconscious and the development of insight. Psychotherapy can help a person to deal with psychological difficulties that have developed over a long period of time, helping the person identify and understand more clearly the emotional issues and background to difficulties. Psychotherapists can work with a wider range of clients and can offer a more in-depth work where appropriate.

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There are different types of psychotherapy, but they all aim to help you understand more about yourself, improve your relationships and get more out of life.

Here’s a brief preview:

Psychodynamic Therapy – this approach focuses on changing problematic behaviours, feelings, and thoughts by discovering their unconscious meanings and motivations.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: (CBT) is directed toward changing the person’s cognitions- that is their thoughts, beliefs and behaviours in order to change the resulting emotion.

Person-Centred Therapy: rejects the idea of therapists as authorities on their clients’ inner experiences. Instead, therapists help clients change by emphasising their concern, care and interest and valuing the client as a person in all aspects of their humanity while aiming to be open and genuine.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming –  is a way of exploring the relationship between how we think, how we communicate both verbally and non-verbally, and our patterns of behaviour and emotion. It works on the basis that each one of us builds our own unique “models” or “maps” of the world around us and, although such maps are genuine and real to us as individuals, no one’s “map” is fully able to represent the “real world”.

Narrative Therapy – is a form of psychotherapy that seeks to help individuals identify their values and the skills and knowledge they have to live these values, so they can effectively co-create a more helpful narrative about themselves and their identity.

Solution-Focused Therapy (SFBT) is a collaborative, practical, goal-driven model approach to psychotherapeutic change. It’s directed toward developing and achieving the client’s vision of solutions.

Gestalt Therapy: highlights what it calls “organismic holism,” the importance of being aware of the here and now and accepting responsibility for yourself.

Existential Therapy: it’s a philosophical method of therapy that operates on the belief that inner conflict within a person is due to that individual’s confrontation with the givens of existence. It focuses on free will, self-determination and the search for meaning.

Integrative Therapy: Therapists don’t tie themselves to any one approach. Instead, they blend elements from different approaches and tailor their treatment according to each client’s needs.

Body Psychotherapy: There are numerous branches of body psychotherapy and many are the result of work done by Wilhelm Reich, Alexander Lowen, John Pierrakos and David Boadella.  Central to Somatic Psychotherapy is the idea that mind and body have a continual, bi-directional feedback loop by which each informs the other. People can use their minds to affect their bodies; as well as use their bodies to change their mind. Depending on the type of therapy and the way each therapist develops his or her style, the use of touch is usually incorporated when practising body psychotherapy. However, some of the sessions may appear similar to other counselling and psychotherapy session although the therapist is paying particular attention to the body language and voice patterns.

Our Approach to Therapy

Sometimes people need short-term crisis-oriented help, other times in-depth life-changing assistance. Either way, at Atman’s Psychotherapy, Counselling, Clinical Hypnotherapy and Training, we are dedicated to empowering individuals, couples and families to free themselves of issues, traumas and emotional upsets and develop genuine connections to reach a deeper level of change.

We have long recognised the intrinsic unity of the human being in their somatic (physical), mental, emotional, and spiritual nature and how each aspect interacts and interconnects with one another. And, we recognise that lasting healing occurs when all levels are addressed at the cellular level because emotions and beliefs are stored not only in our subconscious but also in our cellular memory.

Over the past decade, we have researched, explored and tested many different methodologies that bring about lasting change for the clients in the shortest amount of time. What we have found is that regardless of the presenting problem, unresolved trauma and repressed emotions are often at the root of many ailments – both emotional and physiological. Unfortunately, in many cases the connection between trauma and other problems, such as addictions, relationship issues, sleep disorders, chronic pain, phobias, many neurological conditions and a host of other stress-related issues often go unrecognised. However, unless the root cause is addressed and resolved, treatments are not very effective.

These insights led us to develop a unique therapeutic model known as Accelerated Transformational Healing which utilises the power of conscious and subconscious collaboration to accelerate the healing process and remove the problematic encoded memories associated with the trauma. This is achieved by combining the positive aspects of Clinical Hypnotherapy in conjunction with Psychotherapy, Regression Therapy, Holographic Memory Resolution, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and by giving new instructions to the cellular structure (DNA).

What Should I Expect From a Session?

The process of Accelerated Transformation Healing involves going into a relaxed state of hypnosis because the mind is most receptive to suggestions for healing especially during a hypnotic state. The reason for this is that when we enter a hypnotic state our brain waves move from beta to alpha and then theta brain waves.  This is significant because as we slow down our brain waves, our consciousness moves out of the thinking neocortex (analytical brain) and into the limbic brain where it connects with the autonomic nervous system which is the body’s subconscious operating system that knows how to heal better than the conscious mind.

Accelerated Transformation Healing uses regression as a powerful process to safely access the original root cause of the emotional/mental issue that is behind the presenting problem. Then, the original encoded and emotionally charged response is changed to one that is more neutral and resourceful while retaining the learning’s from the experience. This process frees the individual from the previously unconscious, negative impact of the trauma. In addition, specific healing instructions are given to the mind and body, thus re-setting the bio-energetic blueprint, as well as re-writing existing subconscious programming. This in turn, initiates more productive neurological pathways in the brain to directly access a new paradigm of healing and create profound and permanent changes on the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual level. For example, if specific genes are active for disease whether they are hereditary or not, you can turn on new genes for growth and repair and switch off the genes responsible for the condition. The nervous system can be retrained to respond appropriately, and cells can be influenced to accelerate healing.

The advantage to using the Accelerated Transformational Healing process is that the subconscious mind can be accessed in a way that feels safe and non-threatening. It offers a fast and effective way to permanently overcome problematic conditions that have trauma at its roots. Childhood issues and past experiences that are currently negatively affecting your life get resolved and inner resources accessed. This means that you can free yourself of trapped grief and trauma and release fears, phobias, habits, compulsions, unwanted behaviours and heal physical or mental conditions once and for all. Furthermore, when mind, body, spirit, and emotion are transformed at the cellular level, a platform for complete healing and wholeness is provided and transformation occurs.

Accelerated Transformational Healing can be applied to almost any physical or psychological condition where counselling, clinical hypnosis or psychotherapy are currently used. It is especially effective for chronic conditions such as phobias, anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, pain, addictions, obesity, stroke recovery, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and a host of other mental and physiological conditions that have repressed emotion, trauma, post-traumatic stress or abuse as the cause. It’s never too late or too early to address and release these stuck energies.

Because each person is different and has unique needs, every therapy session is different. We follow what is presented by the client and support the client in whatever way is more beneficial and comfortable for them. While with most clients, incorporating the Accelerated Transformation Healing model is the best and fastest approach, sometimes clients prefer conventional therapies such as counselling or psychotherapy in exploring and resolving issues of an interpersonal, intrapsychic, or personal nature. There are no rules; the option of different approaches means therapy can be tailored to meet the needs and preferences of the individual client.

Our goal is to offer solutions that support the integration of the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing in a non-judgmental and supportive environment, while emphasising the person’s strengths, resources and resiliency.

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We live in a complex world where we are bound to through rough patches, where we are dealing with psychological issues, or going through unexpected changes in a relationship, work, or our health. Sometimes, we may be in the middle of a crisis and may feel as though our lives have lost meanings, we’re confused, we lack direction, and we’re overwhelmed and can’t deal with the situation at hand.

Or perhaps we may be just seeking more balance in our life and spirituality and would like to chat to someone who is not only experienced, but who can be there and listen non-judgmentally, and help you improve things in a supportive and confidential environment.  All of these reasons and more will bring individuals to therapy.

In fact, therapy is for people who have enough self-awareness to realise they need a helping hand, and they are taking responsibility by making a commitment to change the situation. That is something to be respected and valued.

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