
	Typical Interventions That May Be Used in Your Session
Home Typical Interventions Cost & Benefits About Linda	Imagery goal-setting to focus attention on the positive intentions you have for your life. Guided processes that help you identify unconscious blocks or objections to achieving your goals. Education and practice to teach you to restructure dysfunctional thought patterns or out of date coping skills and respond more effectively to today’s stressors. Practical skills and guidelines for calming yourself when feeling overwhelmed or stressed by life events. Applied education in CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) that teaches it is not the events in our lives, but our thoughts and perceptions about the events in our lives that cause stress. Mindful awareness activities for stress reduction and focusing attention on the here and now. Attending to what happens when thoughts resist the present experience and wander to the past and future where they may alight on grief, loss or fear. Facilitation of grief processes when thoughts habitually focus on past losses. Facilitation of panic or anxiety management processes when thoughts habitually project fearful future events. Skills to move through anger and accept your experience with greater calm and clarity. Education about the mind/body connection. Practice exercises to facilitate greater awareness of this connection leading to a more integrated sense of self. Guidance in practicing meditation, guided imagery, progressive relaxation, deep abdominal breathing, stretching, light yoga, body movement and body awareness.
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Typical Interventions That May Be Used in Your Session

Imagery goal-setting to focus attention on the positive intentions you have for your life.

Guided processes that help you identify unconscious blocks or objections to achieving your goals.

Education and practice to teach you to restructure dysfunctional thought patterns or out of date coping skills and respond more effectively to today’s stressors.

Practical skills and guidelines for calming yourself when feeling overwhelmed or stressed by life events.

Applied education in CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) that teaches it is not the events in our lives, but our thoughts and perceptions about the events in our lives that cause stress.

Mindful awareness activities for stress reduction and focusing attention on the here and now. Attending to what happens when thoughts resist the present experience and wander to the past and future where they may alight on grief, loss or fear.

Facilitation of grief processes when thoughts habitually focus on past losses.

Facilitation of panic or anxiety management processes when thoughts habitually project fearful future events.

Skills to move through anger and accept your experience with greater calm and clarity.

Education about the mind/body connection. Practice exercises to facilitate greater awareness of this connection leading to a more integrated sense of self.

Guidance in practicing meditation, guided imagery, progressive relaxation, deep abdominal breathing, stretching, light yoga, body movement and body awareness.