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Forest Lake

Collaborative Healing 

Psychotherapy is most effective when the connection formed along the way creates a sense of trust. This foundation enables deeper exploration & greater possibilities for lasting resolution. Tools and skills matter, but feeling supported by a compassionate witness is essential to achieving change, particularly with trauma, substance use and relational struggles. Essentially, you need to feel respected & engaged. ​You bring topics to unpack. We define goals, build skills & insights. You are the expert in your life; I support you steadily navigating your process with nonjudgmental compassion and decades of training and experience.

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We identify and enhance strengths, as well as address the ways you might overuse them. We journey toward ease, emotional capacity, sharper cognitive functioning and improved relationships. We build an individually-tailored toolkit for you to metabolize charge and increase resilience. As a result of active participation in the process, you experience healthier self-awareness, skillfulnesss and emotional regulation. 

Proficiencies

  • Addiction
  • Anxiety & Mood Disorders
  • Biofeedback
  • Chronic Pain/Fibromyalgia
  • Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD)
  • Complex PTSD
  • ​Extreme Hardship Evaluations
  • Families of Veterans
  • Grief and Loss
  • LGBTQIA+
  • Relationships
  • Sleep Issues
  • Veterans
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Trauma
  • Womens’ Issues
  • Work Challenges
  • 12-Step Recovery

 

 

  • Somatic Experiencing (SE) invites pauses to explore sensations, unconscious behavior, imagery and emotions that arise during at critical moments. Held in the deeper parts of our nervous systems, accessing these 'memories' mindfully supports a sense of completion.

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) identifies problematic thinking and behavior, offers alternatives to shift the way we feel through insight into our habitual pattern

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) views individuals as a configuration of protective and wounded inner parts led by a core Self. Inner parts serve multiple functions, all designed to protect the Self. Gentle exploration raises awareness and connectedness, supports understanding and healing. 

  • Solution-Focused Brief Therapy maintains a here-and-now approach. While the past is important, solution-focused work addresses current challenges and supports changes based on goals. This approach can help address immediate problems that create safety concerns.

  • Co-Regulating Touch enables emotional regulation via contact from a provider, or guided self-touch to specific parts of the body.

  • Core Gifts - Brought to Marin HHS by Bruce Anderson, life challenges are viewed as initiations, which translates to better understanding of motivation behind over-used skills. A Core Gift Assessment produces personal mission statements 

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) uses a patient's own rapid, rhythmic eye movements. With the help of an EMDR therapist, these eye movements can decrease the power of emotionally charged memories of past traumatic events.

  • Jungian Psychology focuses on the source of problem rather than symptoms to develop a balance between conscious awareness and stuck parts of the unconscious mind.​ 

Integrated Therapeutic Approaches

Proficiencies
Integrated Therapeutic Approaches
A Healer's Path
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"Asking yourself these deeper questions opens up new ways of being in the world. It brings in a breath of fresh air. It makes life more joyful. The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but be in the mystery."

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~ Fred Alan Wolf, PhD

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