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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy :  

CBT is based on the concept that your thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and actions are interconnected, and that negative thoughts and feelings can trap you in a vicious cycle. 

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy:

What if you could accept and allow yourself to feel what you feel, even if it’s negative?  Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to embrace their thoughts and feelings rather than fighting or feeling guilty for them.  In the case of ACT, you commit to facing the problem head-on rather than avoiding your stresses. Imagine committing to actions that help you facilitate your experience and embrace any challenge.

Dance Movement Therapy: 

 Dance/movement therapy, usually referred to simply as dance therapy or DMT, is a type of therapy that uses movement to help individuals achieve emotional, cognitive, physical, and social integration. Beneficial for both physical and mental health, dance therapy can be used for stress reduction, disease prevention, and mood management.  In general, dance therapy promotes self-awareness, self-esteem, and a safe space for the expression of feelings.

Drama Therapy: 

Like art, music, and dance therapy, drama therapy uses the art form as a springboard for deeper, more meaningful work.  Drama therapists guide people in therapy through a series of intentional activities that allow them to enact scenes representative of the way they want to live their lives. Participants may see drama therapy affect changes in their behavior, emotional state, personal growth, and skill adaptation. Participants utilizing drama therapy are often able to improve their interpersonal relationship skills through active participation in things like:

• Storytelling
• Role-playing
• Puppetry
• Rituals
• Games
• Improvisation
• Scripts

Creative Writing:

The blank page, and whatever you fill with it, is a manifestation of your self. 

Writing therapy is a form of expressive therapy that uses the act of writing and processing the written word as therapy. Writing therapy posits that writing one's feelings gradually eases feelings of emotional trauma.

By writing, you are empowering yourself to explore every corner of your mind, perhaps even things that might be challenging to think about under normal circumstances. Writing can help you deal with difficult or traumatic events, or perhaps help you find new or hidden meanings in events that previously seemed unimportant to you.

In essence, writing is an easy way to think about your problems and issues, while remaining totally in control of them, which is important since lack of control can be difficult for many people to grapple with. You are the one deciding what makes its way onto the page, how relevant or illuminating those words might be, and whether anyone else will ever get to see then.

Reiki Treatments:

Reiki is a hands-on natural healing using the universal life force energy.  The term comes from the Japanese words “rei,” meaning universal, and “ki,” which means vital life force energy that flows through all living things. reiki, an abundant, gentle spiritual energy is not tied to any specific religion or nationality.

reiki, which is used all over the world in places including hospitals and hospices, was developed by a Japanese man named Mikao Usui in the early 1900s. It aids in healing by helping people become energetically balanced physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.

The reiki practitioner is the conduit between the patient and the source of the universal life force energy; the energy flows through the practitioner’s energy field and through her hands to the patient. (the energy does not come from the

practitioner; rather it comes through the practitioner from the universal source