Calming Roots Therapy
My goal for my clients is for them to have the relief they have been seeking in order to live a happy, healthy and productive life.
Ashlin Sogge, MSW, RSW
I practice from an Ecological Perspective where I believe many factors from our environment come together to create the unique circumstances and a range of factors that shape who we are, that ultimately affect our well-being.
What to expect with Calming Roots
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EMDR is a structured therapy approach to help you process difficult experiences and ultimately improve your mental health. The client is asked to focus on the traumatic memory briefly and notice the sensations and emotions that are brought up when thinking about the memory. While the client is aware of those sensations and emotions bilateral stimulation (side to side) either with their eyes, tapping legs or tapping chest area is introduced.
This allows the body to process the information that is brought up, to desensitize the difficult pain or unwanted symptoms that the memory is still causing, it recodes the story and as a result permanently reduces the emotional distress. The number of sessions required for an event can vary.
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Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach, which incorporates positive psychology principles and practices, and which helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems.
This method involves moving the patient's attention from the problems in life that has not been previously effective to more effective ways that they have been using as a foundation, and they've develop upon that
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It is a non-directive form of talk therapy, meaning it allows the client to lead the conversation and does not attempt to steer the client in any way. Its approach rests on one vital quality: unconditional positive regard. This means that the therapist refrains from judging the client for any reason, providing a source of complete acceptance and support.
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CBT helps people learn to identify, question and change how their thoughts, attitudes and beliefs relate to the emotional and behavioural reactions that cause them difficulty.
By monitoring and recording thoughts during upsetting situations, people learn that how there thoughts contribute to emotional problems such as depression and anxiety. CBT helps to reduce these emotional problems by teaching clients to:
identify distortions in their thinking
see thoughts as ideas about what is going on, rather than as facts
stand back from their thinking to consider situations from different viewpoints.
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Mindfulness may be fundamentally understood as the state in which one becomes more aware of one's physical, mental, and emotional condition in the present moment,
Mindfulness practices are believed to be able to help people better control their thoughts, rather than be controlled by them.