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Atmosphere:
Safe informal and friendly - I will work with you to resolve any problem that may arise between us. Neither of us is perfect and either of us may need to “eat our shirt” now and then.
Confidentiality:
None of your information will ever be shared without your written consent. For couples work, you are asked not to share your written homework with your partner though you may share verbally anything you wish (about yourself or your relationship). Please do not quote the therapist, however, or say what you think she thinks. That tends to escalate the conflict between you and your partner and damage trust with the therapist.
Here is a simplified summary of the methods I use. I use basic cognitive therapy in which clients explore conscious and unconscious ideas, beliefs and feelings. We test these against the reality of today and often find out that they were appropriate when we were little but now need revision. We also use behavioral therapy, in which, once again, under careful and caring observation, the two of us can see which behaviours are still useful and which ones are simply old habits which you developed when you were small and had very few choices.
It is quite a relief for many people, to find that they have an abundance of choices they never realized they had. If you grew up in a family that had poor communication skills or assertiveness skills, you might need to learn some better ones. The last one I will mention is Psychodynamic therapy which includes many different methods of getting to know and understand and learning to love, honour, accept, forgive and respect, all of the different “Selves” that make up the personality. It is not possible to do this for others until we first learn to do it for ourselves. A few of the methods which are used in Psychodynamic therapy would be Psychodrama, Psychosynthesis, Journal writing, Gestalt, Affirmations.
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Testimonial:
"What can I say to convey the changes in my life? When I think on it at
all, my life is divided in two. I think of it as 'before Karyl's' versus 'after Karyl's'"
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Testimonial:
"Karyl asked me what the work we did together has meant to me. It has helped me to become who I am. It helped me to see what the past made me and helped me to choose to be other than that. I am alive because of the work we did."
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