Professional Standpoint &
Theories underpinning my work
I am particularly interested in the fundamental interconnection between the artistic process and helping relationships, in terms of their mutual concen with in-depth communication of emotional experience, and with tranformation and change.
Facilitative Therapeutic Posture
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The Client knows best... |
I try to facilitate the richest possible relational and imaginal discourse between the client and myself.
I focus on the HOW rather than the WHY to encourage clients to work towards making full use of their inner resources, the how they can manage their presenting issues. |
My purpose is to help clients identify their own patterns and find their own solutions.
I never interpret clients' art work. Instead, I help them discover their own interpretations. I believe clients to be experts of their own life. |
I use a set of facilitative techniques, with the help of art media, to help clients unearth what is subconscious or unconscious, find their own answers, draw out their own route, reframe their own history and explore the range of possibilities open to them.
My hope is to support them on their journey towards living a life based on free choices, in line with their own sense of ethics.
My hope is to support them on their journey towards living a life based on free choices, in line with their own sense of ethics.
I use an integrative approach because of my thorough grounding in various theoretical models and schools of thought relating to the therapeutic relationship, particularly the central issues of
- being with an other
- the dialogic encounter
- the meeting of two subjective worlds
- the study of transference and counter-transference.
The main theories I turn to are :
HUMANISTIC
PSYCHOANALYTIC
S. Freud, C. Jung, D. Winnicott, H. Kohut and John Bowlby (Attachment Theory).
NEUROSCIENTIFIC
I am very inspired by the works by M. Sunderland as well as recent findings of all kinds
CBT
Particularly the 3rd wave of Cognitive Behaviour Therapies, solution centred therapies and BRIEF types of short term therapies.
HUMANISTIC
- Gestalt (Fritz and Laura Perls)
- Transactional Analysis (Eric Berne)
PSYCHOANALYTIC
S. Freud, C. Jung, D. Winnicott, H. Kohut and John Bowlby (Attachment Theory).
NEUROSCIENTIFIC
I am very inspired by the works by M. Sunderland as well as recent findings of all kinds
CBT
Particularly the 3rd wave of Cognitive Behaviour Therapies, solution centred therapies and BRIEF types of short term therapies.