Concerns, life experiences, social challenges I have helped clients with:
Relationships
Self confidence
Communication and self-articulation – growing one’s capacity to articulate needs, fears, feelings and exploring how that creates healthier relationships
Grief
Loneliness
Problems people of marginalized genders and sexual identities have to grapple with on account of heteronormativity at multiple levels in the societies we live in
The unique challenges that arise when one is single, especially for those who identify as women, nonbinary, asexual, gay, trans, and the additional nuances that come into play for older women
Abuse – emotional, physical, sexual
Trauma
Body image
Shame
Feelings like inadequacy
Gaslighting and bullying
My approaches include :
Empathy-based verbal counselling, linking thoughts with feelings
Role-playing
Scripting and rehearsing changes one wants to make in one’s life with the client as agent, paying close attention to body language, verbalization and the identification and expression of emotions
Working with clients to create rituals that are healing, empowering and have personal significance
Therapeutic theatre exercises
Psychodrama
Yoga and meditation
Breathwork
Grounding, anchoring and mindfulness
Movement and dance to help one become more attuned to one’s body, with and/or without music
Reflective writing