| The word holistic has been used to describe health | | | | experience ourselves and the world-thinking, feeling, |
| care practices that include acupuncture, massage | | | | doing, and sensing. Holistic practitioners then channel |
| therapy, Reiki, naturopathy, and homeopathy. These | | | | this knowledge through methods that support the |
| practices attempt to bring harmony to the physical, | | | | healthy interaction between the processes of the |
| energetic, and/or nutritional states of individuals. | | | | thinking mind, the feeling body, and the emotionally |
| Holistic Psychotherapy also seeks to bring balance | | | | enfused spirit to bring growth and healing. |
| between these systems. However, as with all | | | | Holistic Psychotherapy engages methods that |
| psychotherapy, its primary focus is the treatment of | | | | encourage us to talk, feel, act and sense in ways that |
| psychological and emotional pain that manifests in | | | | make our experiences manageable, safe, and |
| depression, anxiety, trauma and related disorders. It is | | | | empowering. Holistic Psychotherapy helps us make |
| the way in which holistic psychotherapy treats these | | | | sense out of anxious and depressed states, manage |
| disorders that marks its departure from conventional | | | | overpowering feelings, bring solutions to our problems, |
| psychotherapy and denotes its singular effectiveness. | | | | and teaches us how to effectively plan for our future. |
| Generally speaking traditional psychotherapy focuses | | | | Holistic Psychotherapy recognizes, for instance, that |
| on problematic thoughts and behavior, interprets the | | | | depression is a symptom. Depression might feel like |
| underlining meaning of these thoughts and behavior, | | | | the problem but it is really the messenger that tells us |
| and then provides solutions that are practiced by | | | | we are suffering an imbalance somewhere in self. |
| clients and adjusted as circumstances warrant. | | | | Depression is the red light that signals us to stop. Just |
| Unlike traditional psychotherapy, Holistic Psychotherapy | | | | as you would not continue driving a car with the engine |
| optimally fosters growth and healing by noting the | | | | light blinking without risking breakdown so ignoring |
| synergistic relationship between all the ways we | | | | depression risks a physical and emotional breakdown. |