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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Available for phone/video call sessions as well as walking outdoor sessions when it is safe enough to do so. My approach is based on building trust and working together to find a healing path that works for you, so you can live a life that is meaningful and satisfying. I maintain a safe, warm, and caring environment where you are invited to freely express your worries, concerns, fears, and any...
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I know why you're here. I see you...wondering how you can feel so successful in some parts of your life and so stuck in others, knowing your greatest fear is that you won’t live up to your potential. And yet you keep retreating, shrinking yourself, sabotaging your own success. Deep down you might be thinking you’ve been settling and selling yourself short, and you know it's old "stuff" holding ...
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