I wanted to share a bit about my journey with my counseling practice, Beach Therapy. When I first started this company with a friend I did it with a rather naive outlook. Thinking, perfect, I love what I do, now I can reach more people with the gift of healing. Not putting much thought into anything else, just healing the hurting.
While that is all well and good and intentions were pure, I have had an epiphany of sorts in recent months. I have been really digging in my heals and my heart into this practice and come to realize it is so much more complex them my original topsy-turvy plan. I have the amazing and rewarding job of helping people regain control, focus and helping them overcome some profound life events. There is nothing flippant about that and coming to understand that on a deeper level has put things into lazor focus for me. It’s all about the trauma!
I am trained in EMDR and have found this therapeutic modality to be life changing. It helps a whole plethora of ailments but my biggest successes have been with clients who have endured all levels of trauma. Coupled with my theoretical orientation of CBT I am bringing Beach Therapy to a whole new level. We are now a trauma focused practice. I want to stop focusing on the residual effects of trauma like, stress, depression, anxiety, PTSD and even addiction and remain focused on the root cause. Focusing on the cause and healing that has a residual effect.
What I have found is that what we need to do is get “real” about the big and little traumas that cause all these other mental illnesses, ie anxiety, depression, PTSD, and so on. Once we do that we will have a much more cathartic counseling experience. Anxiety, depression, and our lack of ability to deal with stress and adverse feelings come as a result of not dealing with a trauma. Sometimes we have been dealing with depression or anxiety for so long we can’t identify it orgin.
I often hear things like, “It has always been there, I have always had this”. EMDR when a patient is totally open and transparent has a miraculous way of pulling out the root causes of these ailments and helps us to reprocess the event. CBT coupled with it helps us to see things with a healthier focus.
I realize I am being ambitious with wanting to help people heal the actual trauma instead of just the symptoms. For those of you who know me, I am also certain my ambition does not come as a surprise. Trauma can be healed or at very least worked on so its effects don’t make life unbearable. Weather with talk therapy or EMDR, Beach Therapy wants to help the hurting find a path to healing. Although it seems like I am limiting myself when choosing to laser focus this pracitce on trauma, the reality is I am so excited to be opening the door to more focused and profound healing.
If you or anyone you know have expeirienced trauama and are dealing with the residual effects that it has played on your lives I am here. Please visit my webiste at mybeachtherapy.net to learn more about what I do and to see if Beach Therapy could be a good fit for you or your loved one. “Come for the Counseling stay for the Change”
