Positive Psychology focuses on the positive influences in the client’s life, such as institutions, optimistic emotions, and character strengths.
Positive Psychology therapists believe that emotional and mental factors lead to happiness, so they help clients identify happiness from moment to moment.
Positive Psychology utilizes positive emotion, engagement, and meaning to enhance the client’s life. The therapist will ask the client to maintain a journal of positive experiences each day in detail. Keeping a gratitude journal helps rewire the brain, offsetting ruminations of negativity. The client becomes more attentive to their expectations and memories of events, creating a more balanced perspective.
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People are thinking, feeling, moving, relational, and spiritual beings. If one of these areas becomes disrupted it has an impact on all areas. In this view, therapy is an opportunity to bring air to the patterns and conditions we experience in a supportive way. My approach to therapy combines integrative and person-centered approaches -- via the relationship between the mind and body. I believe...
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I am not accepting new clients, at this time. Life has changed greatly, in such a short time. Things are more uncertain. Some new battles arise. You have goals, for yourself, for your relationships, but you struggle to stay on track. Along with these new barriers, the old challenges of anxiety, depression, addiction, abandonment, not feeling like you belong and other still stand in your way. Yo...
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More than just a way to capture attention, the spelling of Inner Fōkus also carries a personal meaning to the founders. The name is a nod to the German heritage shared by both Dr. Lori and Dr. Patrick, since “fōkus” is the correct spelling of “focus” in German. Our heritage, culture, and environment can have great impacts in shaping who we are. Our name, Inner Fōkus, also serves as a prominent...
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(William R.) Bill Matthews, MA, LPC, PDDEd has been a Licensed Professional Counselor since 1981. Bill began his career working with runaway and throwaway youth. He later became director of that program before moving on to be a clinical coordinator of an outpatient mental health/substance abuse agency. Bill is trained as a family systems therapist, and is certified as an EMDR practitioner (with...
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