Style of Practice
Counseling begins with assessing your individual needs. In counseling you and Janet can work on skill-building related to communication, stress management, anger management and other issues. During therapy Janet may suggest books to read, encourage journaling, or introduce other tools that will enable you to continue working outside of your session.
Some methods of therapy work on correcting distorted thoughts like Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Others may work on beliefs like Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, or focus own problematic behaviors. While all of these approaches are helpful, Internal Family Systems (IFS) can address thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. This ability to focus on multiple dimensions of our experience makes it a powerful system of healing. This cutting edge, transformational model can help resolve inner conflict by making space for understanding contradictory feelings and thoughts.
IFS focuses on bringing the “8 C’s” to our system: Compassion, Curiosity, Clarity, Creativity, Courage, Confidence, Calmness and Connectedness.
You can learn more about IFS through their website here.