What is Psychotherapy?
The core of any psychotherapy process is to assist the client in "uncovering and, ultimately, "owning your story". Through the process of owning and accepting the story of your life, you are now in a cognitive and emotional position to "write your preferred next chapter"! In that spirit, you can begin to manage and champion new ways of being, instead of being stuck in reactive, patterned behaviour and emotional responses.
Psychotherapy is an interactive process, between a therapist and a client. These therapeutic methods and techniques help clients deal with past and current issues that are preventing them from living their lives in fulfilled and happy ways.
Some therapeutic modalities include: exploratory analytic and psycho-dynamic dialogue during individual sessions and in group-work. Others include; dream work, journaling, autobiographical work, psychodrama, movement exercises, regression, reflection, re-patterning, meditation, and various kinds of bodywork, all according to the specific needs and consent of the client.
What is Dialogic Psycho-dynamic Relationship Therapy?
When the therapist and client meet in a therapy session, the therapist works with what is happening in the client’s life now and how it is occurring for the client in the “moment”. This relational dynamic allows the client to develop a level of conscious contact needed to feel securely supported, seen and heard. The opportunity is, with support, a client begins to notice some of their unconscious and limiting behaviours, feelings and perspectives. Now what is known is owned and the root issues can be transformed. In the “Here and Now” of relational therapy, a therapist includes themselves in ways that keenly notice the subtle nuances of a client’s posture, their vocal patterns, the speed and volume of their speaking, the amount of eye contact, etc. Nothing in the session is taken for granted or seen as unnecessary or unimportant. The whole person is held in a space of awareness and compassion. Through “relational mirroring” the unfolding of limiting emotions and beliefs, in a client’s subconscious, allows the client’s to “feel and heal” with their own issues. Through guidance and awareness clients are able to choose to think, feel and act in healthier ways in their life. This support and awareness process, as a part of therapeutic interventions, becomes a cornerstone of their healing journey.
What about training and licensing?
Qualified therapist have trained either through a training institute program of many years duration, or an academic degree with special training, or through a combination of one-to-one apprenticeship learning (the original formula for therapists) and other academic experiences. Such trainings take about seven to ten years on average
Psychotherapy has, at last, become a regulated and licensed profession in Ontario, with the passage of the Psychotherapy Act 2007, which received Royal Assent on June 4 2007.
This new act will limit the use of the title 'psychotherapist' only to trained professionals. It will also define the scope of psycho-therapeutic practice, set up training standards for the future, and provide a complaints procedure independent of any professional organization, association or private training institute.
We invite you to find out more about the new Psychotherapy Act by going to www.crpo.ca
The core of any psychotherapy process is to assist the client in "uncovering and, ultimately, "owning your story". Through the process of owning and accepting the story of your life, you are now in a cognitive and emotional position to "write your preferred next chapter"! In that spirit, you can begin to manage and champion new ways of being, instead of being stuck in reactive, patterned behaviour and emotional responses.
Psychotherapy is an interactive process, between a therapist and a client. These therapeutic methods and techniques help clients deal with past and current issues that are preventing them from living their lives in fulfilled and happy ways.
Some therapeutic modalities include: exploratory analytic and psycho-dynamic dialogue during individual sessions and in group-work. Others include; dream work, journaling, autobiographical work, psychodrama, movement exercises, regression, reflection, re-patterning, meditation, and various kinds of bodywork, all according to the specific needs and consent of the client.
What is Dialogic Psycho-dynamic Relationship Therapy?
When the therapist and client meet in a therapy session, the therapist works with what is happening in the client’s life now and how it is occurring for the client in the “moment”. This relational dynamic allows the client to develop a level of conscious contact needed to feel securely supported, seen and heard. The opportunity is, with support, a client begins to notice some of their unconscious and limiting behaviours, feelings and perspectives. Now what is known is owned and the root issues can be transformed. In the “Here and Now” of relational therapy, a therapist includes themselves in ways that keenly notice the subtle nuances of a client’s posture, their vocal patterns, the speed and volume of their speaking, the amount of eye contact, etc. Nothing in the session is taken for granted or seen as unnecessary or unimportant. The whole person is held in a space of awareness and compassion. Through “relational mirroring” the unfolding of limiting emotions and beliefs, in a client’s subconscious, allows the client’s to “feel and heal” with their own issues. Through guidance and awareness clients are able to choose to think, feel and act in healthier ways in their life. This support and awareness process, as a part of therapeutic interventions, becomes a cornerstone of their healing journey.
What about training and licensing?
Qualified therapist have trained either through a training institute program of many years duration, or an academic degree with special training, or through a combination of one-to-one apprenticeship learning (the original formula for therapists) and other academic experiences. Such trainings take about seven to ten years on average
Psychotherapy has, at last, become a regulated and licensed profession in Ontario, with the passage of the Psychotherapy Act 2007, which received Royal Assent on June 4 2007.
This new act will limit the use of the title 'psychotherapist' only to trained professionals. It will also define the scope of psycho-therapeutic practice, set up training standards for the future, and provide a complaints procedure independent of any professional organization, association or private training institute.
We invite you to find out more about the new Psychotherapy Act by going to www.crpo.ca
