Do you need a Shrink?
To find out, check the statements below that apply to you:
- I want to heal from the emotional wounds inflicted on me by hurtful people and traumatic situations.
- I want to rid myself of the emotional baggage that I’ve been carrying for so long.
- I want to move on from being stuck, trapped, or paralyzed in life.
- I want to overcome patterns of self-sabotage in my life.
- I want to know the direction in life which I should take.
- I want to discover my “authentic” self.
- I want to maximize my potential and become the best version of myself.
- I want to be more “whole” and more “integrated” in the emotional, physical, emotional, spiritual, and relational aspects of my life.
- I want to live a life that is full, joyful, and more meaningful than what I have now.
- I want to reinvent myself and redesign my life.
If you checked any of the statements above, then you surely will benefit from talk therapy with a shrink.
What is talk therapy?
Talk therapy allows you to share with me your innermost thoughts, emotions, stories, and secrets, which I will keep with utmost confidentiality.
As you share, I will attentively listen to you and interact with you sincerely, respectfully, compassionately, objectively, and non-judgmentally.
Our talk therapy will come in the forms of life coaching and psychotherapy:
- Life Coaching focuses on strategies to help you deal with your present-day problems and future worries and concerns.
- Psychotherapy focuses on healing from your emotional baggage, psychological trauma, and other root causes.
What do you get from doing talk therapy?
- Healing from your emotional wounds.
- Emotional closure.
- Learning deep lessons from your own life experiences.
- Practical and wise guidance and advice from me.
- The wonderful opportunity to reinvent yourself and redesign your life!!
What is a talk therapy session like?
In the span of one hour, there are generally 4 parts:
- You share.
- I listen and ask questions.
- We discuss your issues or do some therapeutic activity.
- We process, then gradually close the session.
How many sessions of talk therapy are needed?
Some problems will need only one or a few sessions.
For deeper emotional baggage and psychological trauma, you will need from 6-10 weekly sessions per issue for emotional healing and closure to finally take place.
What is your approach to talk therapy?
I started as a college peer counselor and telephone counselor at the very young age of 17 when I was still a psychology student at U.P. Diliman. So after gaining almost 50 years of education, training, and experience in helping people, my style of doing talk therapy has now become a synthesis of the following psychotherapies:
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Relational Gestalt Therapy
- Existential Psychotherapy
- Milton Ericksonian Hypnotherapy
- Body-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy
- Creative-Expressive Arts Therapy
- Transpersonal Psychotherapy
- Positive Psychology
- Mindfulness Psychotherapy
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
- Solution-Oriented Psychotherapy
- Freudian Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- Clean Language
- Life Coaching
What are some online resources to prepare you for your first Psychotherapy session?
