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  What is Psychotherapy?Psychotherapy is a process of exploring one’s thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, emotions, sensations, and connections (to oneself, one’s family, friends, significant others, society, nature, religion, God, the environment, and the universe) in the presence of a trained therapist. Psychotherapy offers clients a safe, nurturing, and soothing place just to be. Psychotherapy provides the opportunity for people to share or discuss whatever they feel like sharing or discussing, to ask for and receive feedback, to learn what they need or desire to in order to best serve their lives. What is Holistic Psychotherapy? The following is a wonderful definition I found in Diane Shainberg’s (1983) book Healing in Psychotherapy: Holistic psychotherapy posits that oneness or wholeness is a state fundamental to the organism, a state we were born into, and which we have covered with self-protective ways of behaving; that we have lost touch with the ways we were at birth: open, giving, and taking to where we were satisfied, complete and happy. Denial of this innate state of wholeness is accompanied by psychological illness. Healing is an aspect of revealing and building on the healthy elements in the organism. Here’s what a former client has written about being in therapy with Dr. Franklin: "Over the one and a half years I worked with Dr. Franklin I saw tremendous changes in my life. To me, she’s more of a teacher/coach then an analyst. And that has been incredibly helpful for me. I entered therapy for a very specific reason: facing the consequences of childhood trauma. Dr. Franklin is incredible at understanding and relating to emotional pain. And she has a tremendous gift to take people by the hand and guide them out of a life that is overshadowed by fear and pain, regardless of what their source is. She led me towards making peace with my past and releasing its power over the choices I make in my present life. At this point, I feel like actually living MY life, rather then acting out the consequences of unhappy circumstances. While working my way through a very specific issue Dr. Franklin taught me universal, simple “tools” that have enabled me to face any crisis that might lie ahead. I like how Dr. Franklin, through constant encouragement, taught me how to answer more and more questions for myself. Her greatest gift to me has been to teach me how to access and trust my own resources" |
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