“Do you ever miss yourself?
The person you were before life changed everything?”
Are you willing to invest in yourself to wake up daily in an altogether happier place? RnR Therapy offers an existential, humanistic psychotherapeutic approach to mental well-being. We assist individuals in increasing awareness and understanding of the physical, emotional, spiritual and relational processes appropriate to the context and content being explored. We believe that a person is not just in the environment, but of the environment, and therefore, place an importance on validating and exploring the complex interplay of forces of the presenting situation.
Therapy doesn’t fit in a box. Therapy is spontaneous, dynamic, evolving. It is not something that can be read from a manual, broken down into steps, followed in the correct order, with the promise you will be fixed. “One of the true abominations spawned by the managed-care movement is the ever-greater reliance on protocol therapy in which therapists are required to adhere to a prescribed sequence, a schedule of topics and exercises to be followed each week” (Yalom, 2002, 34).
The medical model is a system in which medical professionals are all trained on a specific set of procedures and practices. Adopted by hospitals, psychiatrists, doctors, and insurance companies, mental health issues are treated in a similar manner as physical diseases. The problem is diagnosed or labeled, and a prescription is written under the guise of being a cure. The reliability of a psychiatric diagnosis is questionable as many individuals are more likely experiencing problems of living rather than suffering from a mental disorder.
“Change does not take place by trying coercion, or persuasion, or by insight, interpretation, or any other such means. Rather, change can occur when the [individual] abandons, at least for the moment, what s/he would like to become and attempts to be what s/he is” (Beisser, 1970, p. 77). Individuals learn what works and what doesn’t work from experiences in which their thoughts, feelings and behaviors change accordingly. The single most critical factor to change is one’s active involvement in the process. “Change is more likely to be long lasting in clients who attribute their changes to their own efforts” (Lambert & Bergin, 1994, p. 27).
RnR Therapy enables the client to access a wider range of choices and actualizing one’s potential through increasing awareness and understanding of self and a relationship based on dialogic contact. Awareness is the primary principle for change. “With this assumption of awareness and responsibility, increased response-ability becomes possible . . . The more fully I can become aware of who I am and what I am doing at this moment, the more freedom I can experience to change and the more I am able to choose my responses” (Clarkson, 2004, p. 15).
Renee and Robin are in the practice of assisting in replenishing your emotional and spiritual well-being. In return, we are also energized. It is in this spirit that we choose to follow a wellness model rather than the medical model. In other words, we prefer to trust in the process knowing that the outcome will be positive without having to be directed by insurance companies or other bureaucracies.
Are you ready to make the best investment? Come find yourself at RnR Therapy where treatment goes beyond addressing presenting symptoms.
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References
Beisser, A. (1970). Paradoxical theory of change. In J. Fagan & I. L. Shepherd (Eds.), Gestalt therapy now: Theory, techniques, applications (pp. 77-80). Palo Alto, California: Science & Behavior Books.
Clarkson, P. (2004). Gestalt counselling in action (Third Ed.). London: Sage Publications.
Lambert, M. J., & Bergin, A. E. (1994). The effectiveness of psychotherapy. In A. E. Bergin & S. L. Garfield (Eds.). Handbook of psychotherapy and behavior change (4th ed., pp. 143-189). New York, NY: Wiley.
Yalom, I. D. (2002). The gift of therapy: An open letter to a new generation of therapists and their patients. New York: HarperCollins.