All therapists in this world, whatever the instrument or modality of their work, aim at improving the wellness of their clients. Whether we do so by allowing the unspeakable to be spoken and verbalized, or the untouchable to be touched and sensed in the body, or the unfeelable to be felt and cried out, we all work to improve the wellbeing of our...
Read More‘Therapy’ is a colloquial word that stands short for one of the many talk-therapy based processes out there in the world, including psychiatry. Psychiatry therefore is a form of talk-therapy, but unlike psychotherapy or counselling it is empowered, or disempowered, depending on how you view medication, by the use of prescribed medication....
Read MoreChemistry is a correlate of wellbeing and one that is rightly appreciated by psychiatrists and mental health professionals at large. Marijuana affects one’s mental chemical states in ways that have been studied extensively and the correlation between these effects and mental and emotional wellbeing are generally speaking not
Read MoreThat evening then I approached the studio and asked for a brief session I was asked to lie down on a wooden box no taller than a thick tatami mat. Within this bed sized low box were some very powerful speakers, and in essence my body began being stimulated by a sequence of sounds that was pre-programmed. The human touch or element of my first...
Read MoreI had a customer once asking me this question within their first few minutes of talk-therapy with me: “Is my self-diagnosed trauma condition a mistake Nicolas? Or not?”. Not knowing much about this person I took a step back and said: “If your self-diagnosis has allowed you to feel like you are more in control of your own future, then this is not...
Read MoreIn all admittance, the first thing to say here is that a bad therapeutic alliance can occur and it can be re-traumatizing. That’s the worst scenario, but I believe this happens rarely compared to the number of good therapy alliances and sessions that occur daily in the world. Of course, these more rare events are the ones that make the news. The...
Read MoreThe first thing I’d like to share on this subject is that phobias, although scary and seemingly gigantic in our minds, are some of the most treatable mental health issues out there. Phobias are a particular form of acute sensitivity to an object, person, or place. This acute sensitivity is not unique to those who have phobias, and is shared by...
Read MoreSo… when we collect all of the studies done to date and run what we call a meta-analysis, we find that no modality has any significant advantage over another. Absolutely none! “WHAT????”, you may be asking. And “Yes!”, the truth is that since the 1950s research has been conducted to establish which, among the 400 official talk-therapy out there,...
Read MoreOf course it will! …if You will! We as therapists are here to support you in your own efforts to understand and make sense of yourself. We are much less here to judge or suggest behaviors, even the obviously self-destructive ones. So the first thing that will help you is You, your will to understand, your will to be honest with yourself, and your...
Read MoreIn this blog we cover a therapeutic process focused on grief. The hope of these blog posts is to offer those who need therapeutic help, an opportunity to see how a therapeutic process can unfold, and by this allow some level of resonance with the process of healing. The present case concerns Inge and Erik, a Flemish couple in their 40s living in...
Read More/kanshaprofessionals/Screen_Shot_2020-06-14_at_2.13.09_pm-z4757.png "Screen Shot 2020 06 14 at 2.13.09 pm")