Individual Psychotherapy
Be guided through the issues that block and keep you from the life and health you want. You will be offered the most comfortable and empowering therapeutic approaches for strengthening your inner relationship and resolving the issues, conflicts or disturbing emotions you are experiencing.
Therapeutic approaches that can be employed include Somatic Psychotherapy, Breathwork, Nutritional Guidance and Micro-nutrition, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Humanistic Therapy, Sensorimotor Trauma Recovery, Guided Imagery, Regressive Therapy, Communication Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Focusing Therapy, Past Life Therapy and Lifestyle Medicine.
Balancing the brain’s bio-chemistry and the mind’s thoughts and emotions in a natural way supports the resolution of psychological discomfort and central nervous system disorders such as anxiety disorders, depression, adult ADHD and Bi-Polar Disorder.
Relationship Therapy
All relationships, be they with a significant other or spouse, between parent/child, employee/employer, siblings, friends, and whether traditional or non-traditional, deepen with the exploration and resolution of difficulties.
Relationship counseling provides each participant with an experienced, empathic ear to help you both move beyond the blocks to connection and to mediate conflicts to create win-win situations, as well as to introduce effective communication skills and relationship building techniques.
I strongly believe that if you are experiencing difficulty in any relationship there are many gifts waiting for you by learning how to share and hear each others heart.
Therapeutic approaches include Imago Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and the Gottman Relationship Therapeutic Process.
Mind-Body Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine
If you are challenged with a chronic or critical illness, or are interested in prevention or improving your health, exploring your relationship with and to your body is paramount. Your willingness to take the steps towards health and healing can be strengthened by releasing blocked emotions and changing inner beliefs and dialogues that may be consciously or unconsciously working to your detriment. As in any relationship, uncovering the truth and experiencing compassionate understanding leads to both peace, health and healing.
Integrative Psychotherapy offers a path into your internal environment to create both the flow and the calm needed for healing both your body and your mind. Mind-Body Medicine provides techniques tailored for your specific needs along with nutritional guidance and breathwork. Lifestyle Medicine provides behavior modification protocols scientifically proven to aid in healing. Integrating both eastern and western medicine philosophies supports you in getting in touch with your “inner doctor” and developing a supportive relationship with your body.
Create both an internal and external healing environment to live a healthy and vibrant life. Carole is experienced with working collaboratively and will work with your health care team.
Breath Therapy
Breath therapy enables you to enter into very deep states of consciousness. “Gentle Breathwork” emphasizes keeping you grounded during the process so that all of your experiences become fully integrated rather than returning to the unconscious. Breath therapy enables you to uncover unconscious memories and experiences that could take years to connect to in traditional talk therapy. Unlike EMDR and hypnosis, breath therapy goes deeper, reaching the physical and spiritual states as well as the mental and emotional states. Breath Therapy is deep and profound work and can be integrated into your therapy to support your therapy goals.
Past-Life Regression
Past life regression is a technique used to bring unconscious material to the surface. It is used in a similar way to dream work. Because it is done as part of the therapeutic experience the retrieved material is often more visceral and vivid. A belief that we actually experience past lives is not required. It is a healing modality that is an optional part of your therapeutic experience.
Whole Foods, Micro-Nutrition & Mental Health
It is a scientifically proven fact that the level of nutrition in the brain influences mood, memory, thinking patterns and more severe illnesses such as Bi-Polar Disease, Schizophrenia, Alzheimers, Autusm and ADHD.
The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture recently reported that the level of nutrition in the fruits and vegetables consumed by Americans are 50% less than they were in the 1950’s. This is the result of agri-business producing food for color and size rather than nutritional value. Add that to all the mass produced foods processed food that destroy the foods’ nutritional contents and we can see why mental distress and illness is on an alarming upswing in the United States.
Easy changes to how often we eat and what we eat can help make the difference between a happy and healthy life experience and one riddled with unhappiness, moodiness and more severe mental problems.
Health Coaching
Both prevention and healing are in your power. Using both an educational and action-oriented approach I will guide you to creating an inner healing environment that keeps your body/mind vital and strong to heal, maintain health and live longer. Benefit: Health, Healing, Vitality and Longevity.
As your health coach I offer you:
* An understanding of the healing process for your pro-active
involvement.
* Guiding you in creating both a sound healing plan and a strong healing
team.
* Providing support for instituting the necessary mental, emotional and
physical healing strategies needed.
* Collaborating with your healing team. Providing effective support until
your health is stabilized or until you've reached the state of health you
desire. This includes anti-aging strategies.
Life Coaching
Live your life from your fullest potential through a process of self connection and self discovery. Be guided with action steps towards a confident awareness that will unleash your creative power to manifest the life you want. Benefit: A deeply rewarding and beneficent life that can be proudly shared.
As your Life Coach I will:
* Help you clarify, and then strategize with you to create a plan for
reaching your goals for a balanced, flowing, satisfying and confident
lifestyle, which includes caring, connected relationships and improved
communication skills.
* Help you get a realistic plan for reaching each of your goals.
* Help you develop the support system needed.
* Provide you with effective support to help you move past any possible
blocks that might arise.
Spiritual Counseling
Spirituality is defined as your sense of connection to the spirit in your self, others, the animals, the earth and the All & The Everthing (aka Universal Energy, God, etc.) Benefits: Inner Peace, Happiness & Health
As your Spiritual Counselor we'll address issues such as:
* Assessing the spiritual beliefs you now hold as to how they support and
empower your life. Learning to embrace what empowers you and
learning how to let go of what does not.
* Learning to identify more with Spirit and less with personality.
* Setting goals and assessing the supports you have (or will be guided to
develop) and any blocks you will need to remove, so that you are able
to incorporate your spiritual beliefs into everyday actions.
* If interested: Demystifying the philosophy of The Secret and The
Laws of Attraction through understanding psychological, quantum
physics and spiritual perspectives.
* If interested: Past-Life Regression
Appointment Scheduling, Telephone Therapy, & Payment Information
My office is conveniently located in downtown Walnut Creek. The office is wheelchair accessible and parking is plentiful.
Telephone sessions can be scheduled for individuals with limited mobility or who live too far from Walnut Creek.
Therapy sessions are scheduled for one full hour weekly, or can be tailored to your specific needs.
I offer reasonable fees. Packages for Life Coaching and Health Coaching are available. Payment can be made by check, cash or credit card. For psychotherapy clients, PPO Insurance reimbursement is available.
