Body ~ Spirit ~ Mind __________________ Dr. Amelia Hardwick ____ Holistic & Integrative Psychology ____ "Healing to live from wholeness in your life and relationships" ~ "Revealing your true essence" |
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Psychotherapy
Therapy For Adults
Individual Therapy helps adults increase their self-awareness, clarify their priorities
and values discover their passions and what gives them purpose, resolve internal
conflicts, release emotional blocks from the past, make important life decisions, and
become more powerful and fulfilled in life. We all find ourselves at personal
crossroads at times and our souls our trying to get our attention to live more
authentically and in line with our divine purpose and essence. We are faced with the
option of living the same, getting the same result or choosing something better. I only
work with adults who desire a healing path, who want to grow, make responsible life
decisions, resolve psychological symptoms at the level of causation, transform internal
blocks, and powerfully create a life they love. I provide an integrated approach that
draws from cognitive-behavioral, psycho-dynamic, humanistic solution-oriented, brief,
and experiential therapy forms. I incorporate Journey Work and Total Biology with
these therapy methods to facilitate deeper, faster, and long lasting results. Therapy
allows you to have a distinctive relationship in your life with someone who will give
you skillful perceptions, therapeutic tools, strategic action plans, validation and
support, a safe place to truly be yourself, and a person committed to helping you live
authentically in all areas of your life.
Therapy For Adolescents
I have extensive experience and success working with adolescents and their parents. I
find teenagers to be amazing individuals that are at a crucial stage in their life and have
always felt passionate about working with them. The choices made during these years
and effects of those can have life long consequences. Never before have teenagers
faced the barrage of difficulties and stress that our modern society today delivers
them. Parents are often completely unaware of what their children experience and are
exposed to on a daily basis because it is so different from when they were teenagers.
Not to mention parents are forced to work harder, longer hours and do more than
their parents. I believe it is crucial to address problems with teens and allow healing so
that they may blossom into their full potential, leaving behind the scars these tough
years can sometimes bring.
Therapy helps adolescents develop and strengthen their identity, clarify personal goals,
resolve internal conflicts, develop pro-social skills to succeed in the real world, and
learn to love and care about themselves and relationships while solidifying how they
want to live their lives now and as adults in healthy, authentic ways. Therapy with
adolescents can be a powerful opportunity to heal before they take there wounds
forward into their adult lives. I strongly recommend Journey Work with teens, they
love it and problems resolve themselves quickly. Therapy with adolescents generally
involves a combination of individual and family sessions. Often an adolescents
therapist is the ONLY adult an adolescent is seeking advice from as their friends are
their first and often their only desired source of guidance. Friendships are crucial at
this stage, but with the complicated issues teens face without the opportunity of life
experience, this unfortunately can be a bit like the blind leading the blind. Individual
sessions allow adolescents to talk freely about personal concerns with an unbiased
adult they can trust, who will listen and allow them to important issues and arrive at
their own responsible choices. Family sessions provide ways to resolve conflicts,
increase effective communication, respect, cooperation and accountability for all
family members. The goal is to strengthen or restore closeness in the family. Parents
may be asked to come in for their own individual session to help facilitate healing for
all parties. In the treatment of adolescents it is vitally important that the teen has a
voice in the choice of their therapists. In my adolescent parenting classes I have taught
I cover this subject very directly. Many parents wonder why therapy isn’t working
with their teens and they find themselves in an increasingly deteriorating situation.
Three factors contribute to this, and two of these factors parents have direct control
over. One, the current therapist they are using has little or no clinical training with
teens and are just plain not suited to treat them because of their inability to connect
and build rapport with teenagers. The second can be caused by the first, but is not
always the case….the adolescent just doesn’t like, feel comfortable with or trust their
current therapist. I can’t tell you how many times parents have gushed over how
much THEY like their child’s therapist parenting classes for parents of teens or
support groups, and yet they are not getting results and their children flat out say they
don’t like the therapist and the parent continues to want to send their child to that
clinician. My response is very direct, “Great, you see them for your individual
therapy, but find your child a new therapist.”
It is important that parents like and feel comfortable with their child’s therapist, but
they aren’t the focus of the treatment. Parents are just throwing their money out the
window if their teenager doesn’t like their therapist or trust them because they either
won’t talk in sessions or they certainly aren’t going to share the information they need
to so they can help themselves and the therapist can help them. The third factor in
facilitating healing for an adolescent is they have to want to heal and change. A
therapist that works well with adolescents will do their best to engage the adolescent
into caring about themselves, their relationships and their future, but ultimately it will
be what the adolescent chooses for themselves and the parents job to provide every
opportunity for them to thrive until they are adults.
Therapy For Children
Therapy helps children increase their self-esteem and self-confidence, connect their
feelings to their behaviors, elevate their respectful and responsible cooperation, and
learn pro-social skills to manage their emotions and behavior in positive ways.
Working with children generally involves individual sessions for the children and
parents, combined with family sessions. Individual and/or sibling sessions with
children utilize a variety of therapeutic techniques including Journey Therapy, play
therapy, art therapy, role playing, talking, teaching therapeutic stories, imagery, and
other creative and magical ways to connect with and empower young people. Family
sessions establish family values and rules, build respect and cooperation, teach ways
to communicate effectively and solve problems, and strengthen or restore closeness in
the family. I find that Journey Work is so effective with children that individual
therapy is not needed for very many sessions depending upon the child’s and families
needs. Please see description of Journey Work with children and my thoughts on
choosing a therapist for your child in the Adolescent section above.
Couples Therapy
Relationships allow us to experience the most wonderful blessings life has to offer,
and they also test us and require us to grow as individuals which at times can be very
painful. The personal growth that can be achieved with in the context of an intimate
relationship is phenomenal. Our loved ones are our greatest teachers if we are willing.
Dr. Amelia advocates an agreement for a couple to enter a Spiritual Partnership in
which they inspire each other to evolve and grow as human beings with in their
relationship to share in all of life’s joys and blessings together. Couples therapy is
designed to promote or restore trust, develop accurate communication and
understanding, remove harmful projections, create individualized problem-solving
strategies, increase relational satisfaction, and inspire openness and intimacy. Intimate
relationships are not easy. Understanding each other or at least validating individual
perspectives and learning more effective communication, skills and forming healthy
agreements and designing a spiritual agreement or vision are essential for relational
vitality. Ideally, couples will decide to come in early to assess their relational styles
and strengthen strategies for a dynamic relationship. Unfortunately many couples wait
until their relationship is almost unbearable and their emotional energy is drained, and
then more work needs to be done with fewer emotional resources available.
Individual Journey Work can help lessen long standing resentments and hurts that
have been left unhealed in the relationship to help facilitate a more open and forgiving
therapeutic experience and shortening time needed in therapy.
Family Therapy
Family Therapy helps families develop greater respect, togetherness, cooperation, and
harmony. We help families identify their communication styles, discover what’s at
the source of reoccurring conflicts, explore ways to really acknowledge and
understand one another, and develop effective systems for solving problems. Creating
a family vision and living that as a family lifestyle is vitally important to strengthen
relationship bonds, create personalized rituals that will be remembered for a lifetime,
and make Family a source of love, joy, laughter, support, comfort and pride.
Co-Parenting Therapy For Divorced Parents
For divorced parents with children, Co-Parenting sessions can help to rapidly develop
workable strategies to minimize parental conflicts and help you and your children
adjust to living in two homes. This can be done before or after physical separation, as
well as when new issues come up in the future. The number one factor in how well
children adjust after their parents divorce is the level of parental conflict, hostility and
tensions. Children commonly complain about “being stuck in the middle,
wishing their parents would get along better.” Many parents may not even be
aware of the things they are doing that can have long lasting effect on their children
because they themselves are undergoing such a tumultuous time. Getting a neutral
third party to help facilitate this extremely painful process can mean the difference in
your child flourishing or developing future problems. This goes for the parents as
well!
Psychotherapy
Rates
Psychotherapy Rates for Appointments with All Individual Clients, Couple and
Families are as follows ~
$175 per Hour
Sliding scale is available upon demonstrated need.
***Please see rates for journey work in that section, as this work may be
incorporated into the treatment plan for psychotherapy if recommended and
agreed upon
“The Lotus is a Flower That Grows in the Mud. The Thicker and Deeper the Mud The More Beautiful The Lotus Grows." Zen Saying |
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