How is unburdening different?
Traditional Individual therapy, also known as individual psychotherapy or talk therapy, is a type of mental health treatment where a client works one-on-one with a therapist to address personal issues and improve their well-being. They talk about a unified self as a whole entity that makes choices. This kind of therapy is intended to provide a safe and confidential space for exploring thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and for developing healthy coping mechanisms. Often, this approach can lead to feelings of "what is wrong with me that I choose to do this?" Modern approaches find this to be unhelpful.
By contrast, our psychotherapy employs the recognition of the parts model which is featured in modern psychotherapies like Internal Family Systems (IFS). Instead of dealing you as simply one unified consciousness that makes decisions of questionable merit, we explore the role of sub-personalities that have been acting as protectors in your life by carrying strong emotions and behaviors that you usually are looking to modify in some way. Our unique brand of therapy helps you value, de-shame, connect meaningfully with, and negotiate collaboratively with these parts, which are believed to represent different networks in your brain that operationally may be at odds with one another. This causes inner conflicts and often counterproductive behavior that we would like to modify. Negotiating with the parts removes these burdens.
Resolve the inner conflict, and you free up the energy to change important things in your life.
What else is different about Inner Wellth?
Our practice is led by Dr. Randolph Shipon, who got into this field starting as a holistic energy work practitioner, and has training in diverse mind-body approaches such as alternating bilateral stimulation and acupoint tapping. These body-based techniques lead to more rapid outcomes in psychotherapy because they reduce blood cortisol levels (stress), increase oxytocin (feelings of wellbeing), improve circulation (including to the brain) and employ more of the brain's cortex in establishing new networks for problem-solving and action.
How can it help?
Therapy sessions can provide these seven types of benefits and more:
- Adding to your support network
- Gaining a better understanding of yourself
- Learning how to handle emotions
- Identifying underlying causes of symptoms
- Providing coping strategies
- Activating measurable behavior change
- Managing symptoms
- Facilitating lifestyle changes
Next steps
The process of obtaining unburdening therapy involves a meeting with the clinical director to determine how we can help before being assigned to your therapist. Then you are put in contact with your therapist, who will reach back out to you to schedule your appointment and develop a schedule.
If you are interested in pursuing this powerful mechanism of change, please contact us today at (973) 321-4380.