Experiential Therapy uses experiences to facilitate growth and change, which assists people with various mental health concerns, such as anxiety, depression, and trauma disorders.
Traditional approaches to counseling usually involve dialogue and communication to work through mental health concerns. Experiential Therapy places people in specific situations where hands-on activities are at the center of the counseling process. This immersive experience can involve art, psychodrama, music, play therapy, or animal-assisted therapy.
Experiential Therapy places you within an experience that brings up thoughts and emotions depending on your specific needs. Your involvement in whatever activity you’re engaging in shows the counselor how you handle situations and issues.
Experiential Therapy can be used simultaneously with other counseling approaches. Your therapist will inquire about thoughts and emotions that arose during the experience. Understanding your perception of what happened during the experience gives your counselor insight into your inner world.
Experiential Therapy’s goal is to explore yourself through your experiences and use this information to inform future choices.
Therapists Who Specialize in Using Experiential Therapy
**As of 10/20/2020 Tailwinds Therapy is at capacity and unable to take new clients. A waitlist available at client request (email your request to: [email protected])** Spending time with animals is a proven way to reduce stress, improve mood, and increase happiness. Equine Assisted Psychotherapy is an experiential and solution-oriented treatment model that utilizes ground-based...
For 18 years I have worked with children, teens and adults to find their voice and empower themselves. I ensure my clients are treated with the utmost respect and honored for their individuality and uniqueness. The comfortable and caring environment of my office puts client's at ease. Integration of play and alternative methods of therapy provide client's the opportunity to work in a manner tha...
My practice centers around the belief that all people possess a natural intuition for health & wholeness. We are simultaneously interconnected to others and the natural world to which we bring this intuition to our greater sense of purpose among the collective whole. Humans are a renewable source of love and compassion and oftentimes our empathetic responses when caring for others such as famil...
**Now accepting new clients for online therapy** I'm a licensed clinical social work and consider myself a holistic therapist. I primarily work with female-identifying individuals from pre-adolescence into adulthood. I welcome the opportunity to work with ladies from any and all lifestyles and backgrounds. I specialize in working through issues such as anxiety, depression, interpersonal...
I am fully available for TeleHealth counseling services for those who prefer to use TeleHealth due to current environment with the CoronaVirus scare. I am a dedicated, compassionate licensed professional therapist who is passionate about helping others in their healing process. My experience is providing counseling services to individuals, couples and families who are struggling with issues suc...
Billie specializes in couples, addictions, trauma, depression, and anxiety. She is highly skilled in experiential approaches and has extensive training in psychodrama and anger management. Billie has five levels of specialized training in Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT), having trained under the creator of ETT, Dr. Steven Vazquez. This modality is used in individual therapy sessions to...
*NOT ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS AT THIS TIME* Amy Nuttbrock is a committed, compassionate and experienced Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. For adults and adolescents struggling with mental health symptoms, she provides attentive and effective evaluation and individual therapy services. She has extensive training in supporting youth and families in crisis, and is able to fluently engage...
( English | español ) I am passionate about working with clients and feel honored to supporting them throughout their growth. My goal is to create an environment that is accepting, supportive and understanding. I strive to create a safe and nurturing atmosphere in which individuals can be supported in their efforts to grow as well as become reconnected to their strengths and dreams. I am a chil...
I have a passion for helping adolescents connect with their personal strengths while empowering them with coping skills to overcome their mental health and addiction challenges. My experience entails providing individual and group therapy in community counseling centers, intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs, and residential and inpatient hospital settings. In my capacity as...
Toni’s clients describe her as genuine and compassionate. She enjoys working with couples, families and individuals from a strength-based, cognitive-behavioral and experiential approach. She particularly enjoys working with families in recovery, in all age groups. Toni was born in Honolulu. She became a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Hawaii in 2018. She has lived and worked on Maui f...
One can feel scared and overwhelmed when dealing with painful issues alone. I work with individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, stress, trauma, PTSD, and loss and grief, and believe that coping and healing begins with empathy, self-compassion, and connection. Emotional pain can often prompt us to reassess our relationship with ourself and others and can be the catalyst to self-reflection ...
Therapy is a place for confidence building, motivation and belonging. In order to help you, we must engage the amazing complexity of you at the multiple levels of your life. No level is privileged. A person is always more than their thoughts and behaviors. A person is always more than their history. Not only do I work to “change” thoughts and behaviors, I work with the whole...
Clients who grew up in alcoholic, abusive, or dysfunctional family units have very similar struggles and maladaptive coping strategies. It's helped them to survive and make it through some dark days (what we call strengths based survival; you made it, you did it, and now that you're an adult you can learn new, healthy ways of coping with daily life). I love helping clients realize the power of...
You are not broken and you do not need to be fixed. There are some struggles in which you need extra support, an empathic person to hear you, skills and techniques, and a space in which to be you. I am a clinician who has worked with clients dealing with anxiety, depression, substance use, crisis, and family. I have worked with primarily youth and adolescent teens, but have also worked with...
We can all agree close loving relationships are complicated. Do any of these concerns sound familiar to you? "We are considering living together and getting married, but we have a lot of apprehensions." "We are at our wit's end. We fight constantly. There is never any resolution." "Sometimes I feel like I married my mother or father." "I get flashbacks of the affair. I am triggered by everythin...
