Therapy

Carol uses her decades of experience providing counseling and training to help clients find peace of mind in difficult times. She is committed to helping her clients realign with their strength and wisdom, so they can walk free of destructive behaviors.

Tools she uses include Horticultural Therapy, Applied Existential Psychotherapy, Mindfulness, Morita Therapy, Naikan, CBT, and somatic therapies. Listening carefully, she helps her clients select tools that support their ability to produce the results they desire.

Carol’s current book project, Elderiffic: Living and Dying Well will be out soon sharing practices for living life fully to the end.

Therapy|Career Counseling

Therapy Tailored To Your Needs

  • Trauma / PTSD
  • Anxiety
  • Emotional Disturbance
  • Spirituality
  • Self Esteem
  • Depression
  • Grief and Loss
  • Behavioral Issues
  • Career Counseling
  • Abuse
  • Life Coaching
  • Coping Skills
  • Divorce
  • Stress
  • Aging Issues
  • Horticultural

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) – MBCT is designed to help clients who suffer repeated bouts of depression and chronic unhappiness. It combines the ideas of cognitive therapy with meditative practices and attitudes based on the cultivation of mindfulness.

Applied Existential Psychotherapy (AEP) – AEP is used to help clients deal effectively with difficulties that they find limiting their potential. Carol does this by exploring clients’ challenges arising from family-of-origin issues, romantic relationship difficulties, work problems, low self-esteem, depression/anxiety as well as trauma. With AEP, clients are given the tools to ‘re-story’ events and re-discover their inner strengths and beauty, as well as wisdom in the world.

Naikan Therapy – Naikan is a Japanese word that means “inward-looking” or “introspection”. A more poetic translation is “seeing oneself with the mind’s eye”. It is a structured method of self-reflection that helps to understand oneself, relationships, and the fundamental nature of human existence. Using the practice of gratitude, this therapy helps clients become aware of ways to consciously engage with the world and with peace of mind.

Applied Existential Psychotherapy

Horticultural Therapy – As horticultural therapy involves participation in horticultural activities to achieve specific goals as part of a treatment plan. Carol uses therapeutic horticultural activities in her therapy to support her clients with enhancing their well-being through active or passive involvement in plant and plant-related activities. 

Morita Therapy – Morita Therapy is a purpose-centered, response-oriented therapy that supports life changes one small step at a time.  Accepting life as is or arugamama is key to this therapy. Such accepting means recognizing that change is always happening, including a person’s emotions. By accepting these feelings as a natural response to life circumstances, the person does not need to “fix” or “change” them. Nor does he need to be led around by them.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) – CBT is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on solutions, encouraging clients to challenge distorted cognitions and change destructive patterns of behavior. Carol’s approach is to support her clients by developing specific plans for modifying dysfunctional emotions, behaviors, and thoughts.

Motivational Interviewing – Motivational Interviewing is a counseling method that helps people resolve ambivalent feelings and insecurities by developing to find the internal motivation they need to change their behavior. By sharing the difficulties of making changes, clients are able to discover the specific steps they can take to adjust or amend their behaviors. Clients learn how they have the power to modify the behaviors that are preventing them from making healthier choices.

Sensorimotor – Sensorimotor psychotherapy uses the body, rather than cognition or emotion, as the primary entry point for treating trauma.

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