Therapy can help you get your mood, mind and emotions in balance.
Caring Neutral support and expert guidance to help you overcome
- Depression
- Anxiety, overthinking
- Self esteem, lack of personal power
- Sexuality and intimacy issues
- Relationships with partner, relatives
- PTSD - ongoing effects of past trauma
- Spiritual crisis, long dark night of the soul
Psychology & Psychotherapy
As a dual trained therapist I offer the perks of psychological therapy, CBT and Interpersonal therapy but borrow heavily from my rich and deep training in Gestalt Psychotherapy. You are who you are due to your conditioning. Yes, your past matters, but it does not need to define your future. Steps to achieving freedom from the past are incremental, but with support and guidance change can occur.
People often come for help due to a recent crisis and this is not overlooked in the pursuit of delving into the past, while it is often the case that the current crisis was preceded by others, crisis also preceeds growth, This is called post traumatic growth. Not all traumas are life threatening, 'small t' trauma's or chronic ongoing stress that strain one's ability to cope can also tip one into crisis. Then there is the damage caused by others.
When the immediate crisis is acknowledged we may also examine how your past is shaping your current reality. This invloves expanding your self awareness which is facilitated by a skilled therapist who holds the bigger picture for your optimal growth and wellbeing. The truth is many can't see their forest for the trees that block the view, these are the stuck parts of self often out of awareness due to outworn strategies initiated in the past. This is just one way therapy works: Awareness of repeating patterns, alongside allowing space for deep feelings or unconscious material to release is coupled with practical strategies and tools for emotional awareness and healing. The rest is in the healing relationship, an unbiased person who is there just for you, to listen with compassion while holding you to not engage in avoidance, rather to become a more mature, authentic and open expression of your true essential self.
People often come for help due to a recent crisis and this is not overlooked in the pursuit of delving into the past, while it is often the case that the current crisis was preceded by others, crisis also preceeds growth, This is called post traumatic growth. Not all traumas are life threatening, 'small t' trauma's or chronic ongoing stress that strain one's ability to cope can also tip one into crisis. Then there is the damage caused by others.
When the immediate crisis is acknowledged we may also examine how your past is shaping your current reality. This invloves expanding your self awareness which is facilitated by a skilled therapist who holds the bigger picture for your optimal growth and wellbeing. The truth is many can't see their forest for the trees that block the view, these are the stuck parts of self often out of awareness due to outworn strategies initiated in the past. This is just one way therapy works: Awareness of repeating patterns, alongside allowing space for deep feelings or unconscious material to release is coupled with practical strategies and tools for emotional awareness and healing. The rest is in the healing relationship, an unbiased person who is there just for you, to listen with compassion while holding you to not engage in avoidance, rather to become a more mature, authentic and open expression of your true essential self.
Depression & Anxiety
Both Anxiety and Depression can create an enduring change in mood, ongoing low or negative feelings that result in feelings of overwhelm and hopelessness, coupled with negative self talk and low energy.
Anxiety; thoughts going around without resolution, worry, worst case scenarios, should and could haves. Psychology uses CBT to correct your faulty thinking, it is a top down approach, psychotherapy looks at the underlying issues, repressed feelings and conflicts that fuel the mood from the inside.
Depression can emerge from many places in your life, I have started a youtube series on it which can be found here. youtu.be/jmO6xeSRLcg
Anxiety; thoughts going around without resolution, worry, worst case scenarios, should and could haves. Psychology uses CBT to correct your faulty thinking, it is a top down approach, psychotherapy looks at the underlying issues, repressed feelings and conflicts that fuel the mood from the inside.
Depression can emerge from many places in your life, I have started a youtube series on it which can be found here. youtu.be/jmO6xeSRLcg
Biochemistry & Mood
My training with the MINDD foundation, BIll Walshes research and BioBalance provide understanding of some of the nurtient imbalances that can exacerbate mood. Find out more about biochemical imbalances here.
Trauma informed therapy
Negative experiences can be single incident acute traumas, or long standing developmental traumas. Losses, abuses, being beaten, bullied or ignored, Dealing with family or partners who are agressive, mentally ill or have addictions, getting dumped on, being gaslit, scapegoated, lied to, controlled, coerced into doing things we didn't want to, medical mishaps and mismanagement; trauma comes in many shapes and sizes but all leave us fragmented, subsequent similar situations feel unsafe, we are unable to relax, to trust, to live our fullest expression.
Trauma therapy is highly specialised, hence why I call my approach trauma informed without claiming to be a specialised trauma therapist. Rather than EMDR, which is effective but very lenghty, I use Brain Spotting Therapy to facilitate processing, with a somatic focus. I also have some energetic meditations that have helped people remove the toxic residue of perpetrators.
Trauma therapy is highly specialised, hence why I call my approach trauma informed without claiming to be a specialised trauma therapist. Rather than EMDR, which is effective but very lenghty, I use Brain Spotting Therapy to facilitate processing, with a somatic focus. I also have some energetic meditations that have helped people remove the toxic residue of perpetrators.
Transpersonal Spiritual Orientation
Within a psycho-spiritual (transpersonal) orientation we connect to something more than ourselves, but also see that energetically our power is drained from us by unresolved issues and stuck patterns of behaviour. Rebalancing our personal power requires working through what is ours, owning our greatness and knowing that while we are unique, we are very much connected to all that is.
Calm Mind Psychology YouTube Here |
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Clarissa was approached to speak as the expert opinion in an article on somatic approachs to expressing anger in the
Health & Wellness section of the Guardian Newspaper |
