We have to feel to heal.

depth therapy
Fred Lubin, CPC
Clinicians sometimes hear the complaint, or rueful acknowledgment, that children's Play Therapy is too much play and too little therapy. In similar fashion, I believe the adult helping relationship is too often relating without enduring psychological impact. Advice, happy thoughts and warmth are fine necessities. But they do not find the splinters of truth and injury embedded deep.
For various reasons (probably featuring Managed Care's and medication's influence), over the past several decades the world of therapy has shallowed up and painted itself brief and bright. We are supposed to heal by applying our "strengths" to profound problems. We are supposed to think our way out of pain and dysfunction, out of the past and the complex oceanic self.
I believe these ways cannot work. We have to see the real person, not just the "best" or "strong" person. We have to hear and hold hurt and not spin and encourage it away. We have to be truth-seekers.

Therapy . . .
as I've come to understand it over twenty years' practice, is a truth-seeking, truth-finding process. It uses our relationship -- brief to long-term -- to give you insights, tools, and healing. When you are at that place in your life where you want to be different, see and think different, and (maybe most courageous of all) feel different, I'll help you see this is a good and positive journey.
Too much therapy today is a cheerleader, teacher and friend to the personality we've evolved to cope with -- and frankly, escape from -- our truer, hidden, injured self. Such "strength-based" and "solution-focused" counseling may seem practical, or intimate and moving, but is likely to produce a sense of hopelessness and of still being unseen -- the great hurt that describes most of us. Depth therapy, as I love and practice it, can join you in your deepest self that has always been alone. Bringing this 'you' to light and air is uniquely redeeming -- justice-giving -- and is the only enduring healing of one's past and "here-and-now."
Please accept my invitation to arrange an introductory chat or visit, to learn more about this approach to what deeply ails.

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2501 N. Green Valley Parkway, Suite 130-D
Henderson, Nevada
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