Therapy Supporting:
Life Transitions
When something big changes it helps to have someone steady and encouraging by one's side. This can build confidence in a person's whole self that change, even unwanted change, and a sense of safety and capacity can co-exist.
Major life transitions can be a time to re-examine patterns and ways of doing things, whether graduation, moving, medical/social gender transition, coming out, or some other life transformation.
These experiences bring up beliefs about self and others and examining those beliefs can reveal what needs changed, re-examined, or tossed out.
Trauma
Trauma is an experience that overwhelms a person's capacity to cope, often leaving a set of beliefs about the self/the world, and actions that may no longer serve a person's goals even if once these actions helped survival.
The way it affects a person is so pervasive, the extent of the impact sometimes seemingly surpassing the original context. While hard, vulnerable, and rarely quick, once things shift inside, so much else can too.
The way Better Together Therapy works with trauma is autonomy focused, centering the client's capacity in a given moment. It also works with clients to explore and address ways trauma shows up in one's life and body.
Modalities Used
Talk Therapy
Expressive Arts
Talk Therapy
Utilizing a feminist/multicultural and body-positive lens to understand the client and the client's world, talk therapy involves a blend of therapy modalities to help deepen self-awareness, develop skills to build a self-directed life, explore values, and connect to meaning and community.
EMDR
Expressive Arts
Talk Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured and body-integrating way of processing trauma and deepening self-knowledge. The goal is to take some of the heat out of difficult memories, shift perspectives on the self/the world, and develop confidence in capacity to manage future situations.
Expressive Arts
Expressive Arts
Expressive Arts
Integrating other ways of expressing a client's story and truths. Using creativity and story crafting capacity to heal and add to the wisdom offered by the intellectual/cognitive mind.