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Specializing In: Addictions, Bereavement, Trauma, EMDR Cult Recovery, Adolescents, Relationship Issues Individual, Couple, Family |
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What is a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) Marriage and Family Therapists (MFT's) are relationship experts, licensed by the State of California. In order to be licensed, an MFT is required to undergo an extensive educational program, comprehensive training, clinical practicum and must also pass two rigorous examinations to demonstrate professional competency. As core mental health practitioners, MFT's are trained and educated to diagnose and treat the mental disorders and emotional problems of individuals, couples and families. |
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Marriage and Family Therapy from a Bioenergetic Perspective Bioenergetics is a way of understanding personality in terms of the body and its energetic processes. Bioenergetics is a form of psychotherapy that combines work with the body and the mind to help people resolve their emotional problems and realize more of their potential for pleasure and joy in living. Using the safety of the therapeutic relationship, the Bioenergetic therapist is able to work with a unique understanding of the body and its energetic systems. A clinician trained in this form of psychotherapy is able to know much about how the relational patterns of the client. Marriage and Family Therapists are relationally oriented and yet remain under-trained about the body, the context or vehicle that a client lives in and relates through to the world...MORE |
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Clinical Depression Clinical Depression is a mental illness affecting more than 10 million Americans.In addition, a number of studies have indicated that one in six Americans will suffer a major episode of depression in his or her lifetime. Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses, occurring in all parts of the world. It has few boundaries--affecting all people, regardless of sex, race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic standing. However, research has revealed that women are two to three times more likely than men to suffer from depression.... MORE |
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What is Bioenergetics? Bioenergetics was created in the late 1950’s by a psychiatrist named Alexander Lowen, MD along with two other colleagues. Lowen had studied with Wilhelm Reich most noted for his voluminous research on inter-relatedness of the mind and the body and its emotional processes. Reich was formerly one of Freud’s inner circle analysts and also emigrated from Germany to the United States. He later taught at the New School of Social Research in New York....MORE |
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the Relationship; Bringing the Body into Therapy HOW DOES THIS THEORETICAL APPROACH EXPAND A THERAPIST’S ABILITY TO RELATE TO HIS OR HER CLIENTS? Most research has revealed that approximately 94% of our communication is non-verbal. Some call it “body-language.” In Bioenergetics, we are able to read this language of the body as well as have a sense about its meaning to the client. We are given tools to help the client access understanding as to how they have organized their presence in the world according to the emotional ... MORE |
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The
Importance of the Body in Therapy All
body expression has meaning. Consciously or unconsciously it reveals
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