01 Christine Shalala Psychotherapy
My Philosophical underpinning
How I do therapy!
The philosophical underpinning of my clinical work revolves around principles derived from forgiveness therapy and narrative therapy; to help individuals whose identity has been shaped by traumatic experiences let go so they can look at their past experiences through the spectacles of their self-worth. To many of us it is too complicated and overwhelming to navigate through the loss experienced as a result of the trauma. Trauma survivors usually identify with those through whom they have been bereaved, which makes it hard to let go and move on.
As a result, individuals behave in a way to compensate for the loss. We tend to compensate for the loss by replicating past experiences, in an effort, to fix a mistake or restore a person we missed or restore an opportunity we lost. It can be detrimental as our ‘tendency to compensate’ can leave us feeling powerless and hopeless for not having saved or restored a moment or a person in the past.
Thus, my therapy work is centered on aspects from ‘person-centered therapy’ where you are encouraged to express your emotions around certain events inhibiting you from experiencing your full-potential; much more, inhibiting you from expressing your full sense of existence. Through ‘person-centered therapy’ you will be encouraged to drop all pretentions and all expectations of yourselves, and bring true aspects of the Self to the present moment, into the therapy room.
