The tools we use to help ground our clients include:
Meditation, Mindful Self Compassion, chanting mantras, CBT, Hardwiring Happiness, and Rewiring.
After we help stabilize the crisis and your response to it, we move to the next stage which is working thru the habits of thought, feeling and action that brought you to this point.
The tools we use for this work follow below.
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| Tool / Method | How It Helps |
| EMDR | process trauma |
| Gottman Method | improve relationships |
| New Coping Skills | Worry Breaks Walking Away Hardwiring Daily Mood Log Uncovering Techniques Grounding Exercises Journaling-ReWire Externalization of Voices |
| Meditation | improve concentration and stability of the mind |
| Mindful Self Compassion | improve self nurturing, self love, decrease internal critic, reduce shame |
| Chanting Mantras | Stabilize the mind regulate Vagal nerve |
| CBT | Teach and practice tools to gain perspective, challenge thought distortions and reduce negative thoughts |
| Hardwiring Happiness | Increase Felt sense of Safety in groups, Improve Connection and Satisfaction helping make better decisions and reduce self sabotage |
| ReWire | Provide immediate relief when struggling with upsetting emotions, heal broken parts and learn from past mistakes, raise set point of happiness, develop inner nurturer. |
| Effective Communication | Improve connection |
| The Loving Parent Guidebook | Grief Processing, Social Skills, Reduction of Threat Appraisal, Improved Boundary Setting |
| ACA – adult Children of Alcoholic and Dysfunctional Families | Support group to provide resources, skill building and practice in a community of fellow travelers |
| Group Psychotherapy Mens Group at Lions Heart Counseling | Grief Processing, Social Skills Development, Reduction of Threat Appraisal, Improved Boundary Setting, practice with a Licensed Therapist, Corrective Experience |
It’s common after clients experience some relief to want to stop therapy. And while some clients are otherwise well functioning and healthy and just experienced some minor set back, many of the clients we work with have had ongoing trauma, abuse and neglect followed with challenging relationships. For those clients our recommendation is to take a break for a week or two after the initial crisis has passed then to lean back into therapy. With chronic depression and anxiety treatment may take an extended period of time. Often clients sabotage their connections and successes and rarely have feelings of moving forward for significant periods of time.
Our goal at Lions Heart is to maximize your wellbeing and to teach you tools to become your own therapist. Many of our clients have seen many other practitioners over 10-40 years of therapy. And while those were helpful, they find our program to be more significant and helpful, transformative even. Why is that?
In my mind it is because we have many methods and tools and view therapy in a unique way. We are your guide. The guide learns your inner landscape of your thoughts, emotions and behviors and the things that trigger and set you back. Then teaches you haow to use the tools to navigate these challenges. Then helps you practice and develop strength, confidence and mastery with those tools.
This is not a simple practice and definitely not for everyone. We specialize in working with treatment resistant depression, anxiety and relationship problems.
If you are ready to dig in and make some changes fill in the contact form below and give us a call to set up a free phone consultation.
All the tools mentioned above and EMDR. EMDR helps us reprocess upsetting events and traumas so you get less triggered when similar things happen. We have helped clients reduce their hyper vigilance and stress response to triggers often by 95% or more.