The words of the author Dianne Connelly echo within me as I work as a consultant in Macon, Georgia. Symptoms-depression, anxiety, PTSD, phobias, the emergence of the symptoms of ADHD, and the gnawing sense that we are stuck in work or in relationships-are signals that the soul is preparing for greater wholeness. Life crises triggered by divorce, death, career setbacks, and other traumas are excruciating, but they invite us to deepen into our birthright as whole human beings.
Through entering into a dialogue with our deeper, wiser self, we can learn to say yes to our innate capacity for creativity, depth, integrity, and joyful living. Daphne is a student of the soul. She learns from music and poetry, and she experiences healing through the language of symptoms and dreams.
Her practice as a psychotherapist encompasses such diverse approaches as Jungian based psychodrama, symbolic-experiential therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, hypnotherapy and the healing of trauma and grief through working with the human energy field.
Through entering into a dialogue with our deeper, wiser self, we can learn to say yes to our innate capacity for creativity, depth, integrity, and joyful living. Daphne is a student of the soul. She learns from music and poetry, and she experiences healing through the language of symptoms and dreams.
Her practice as a psychotherapist encompasses such diverse approaches as Jungian based psychodrama, symbolic-experiential therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, hypnotherapy and the healing of trauma and grief through working with the human energy field.
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Life Coaching
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Personal Coaching is a discipline that helps you to define your specific life goals and strengths, and then provides direction, support, companioning, and accountability as you move toward completing those goals.
Coaching involves the same elements of good psychotherapy-empathic listening, confidentiality, and skillful intervention-but, while the goal of psychotherapy is to relieve the suffering of people with mental illness, coaching focuses on making healthy people stronger and happier and more effective in their lives.
Coaching involves the same elements of good psychotherapy-empathic listening, confidentiality, and skillful intervention-but, while the goal of psychotherapy is to relieve the suffering of people with mental illness, coaching focuses on making healthy people stronger and happier and more effective in their lives.
Dreamwork
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Care of the soul is my vocation and my privilege.
I am trained in a number or approaches and disciplines, but the thing that has stayed with me through the course of a lifetime is this: People who honor their dreams and listen for their message are almost always blessed beyond measure.
When I pay attention to my own dreams-writing them down, sharing them with trusted friends, dialoguing with dream figures, or creating rituals-impossible challenges and chaotic situations are transformed into opportunities for growth and healing.
I am trained in a number or approaches and disciplines, but the thing that has stayed with me through the course of a lifetime is this: People who honor their dreams and listen for their message are almost always blessed beyond measure.
When I pay attention to my own dreams-writing them down, sharing them with trusted friends, dialoguing with dream figures, or creating rituals-impossible challenges and chaotic situations are transformed into opportunities for growth and healing.
Hypnotherapy
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Hypnotherapy is an effective approach to change.
As we get acquainted, I learn about your background and goals.
As trust develops and you begin to feel comfortable, I invite you to move into physical relaxation, and to move with me into a state of trance.
This experience is similar to the feeling just before sleep, when dreams and images begin to emerge and a sense of deep rest and calm develops.
Some people actually fall asleep, but most feel alert and aware during the session.
As you ease into the quiet, the sound of my voice will help sooth you into a new realm of freedom.
As we get acquainted, I learn about your background and goals.
As trust develops and you begin to feel comfortable, I invite you to move into physical relaxation, and to move with me into a state of trance.
This experience is similar to the feeling just before sleep, when dreams and images begin to emerge and a sense of deep rest and calm develops.
Some people actually fall asleep, but most feel alert and aware during the session.
As you ease into the quiet, the sound of my voice will help sooth you into a new realm of freedom.
Therapeutic Approaches
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is currently the best known approach to psychotherapy.
It is based on the idea that emotional problems are caused by false beliefs and thoughts that are often unconscious.
The therapy involves a conversation between client and therapist reveal and change the troubling beliefs that lie beneath painful emotions.
Therapists use different methods to do this.
Traditional talk therapy provides the client with a place to vent feelings about life situations.
As the story unfolds, the therapist takes note of the places where illogical beliefs and thoughts may be present.
It is based on the idea that emotional problems are caused by false beliefs and thoughts that are often unconscious.
The therapy involves a conversation between client and therapist reveal and change the troubling beliefs that lie beneath painful emotions.
Therapists use different methods to do this.
Traditional talk therapy provides the client with a place to vent feelings about life situations.
As the story unfolds, the therapist takes note of the places where illogical beliefs and thoughts may be present.
Bipolar Illness
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He has, for the last nine years, had periods of depression followed by highs of feeling that he can do anything and that he's not going to take any crap from anyone.
He can't hold a job for very long, for one reason or another.
He has just turned 40 years old this year and has lived with my parents (mother is 78 and father is 75) for the past nine years in a three bedroom apartment.
My brother is over six feet tall and can be very intimidating, especially when he is manic.
He swears a lot and does not respect my parents.
He can't hold a job for very long, for one reason or another.
He has just turned 40 years old this year and has lived with my parents (mother is 78 and father is 75) for the past nine years in a three bedroom apartment.
My brother is over six feet tall and can be very intimidating, especially when he is manic.
He swears a lot and does not respect my parents.
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