This is how I might proceed with you, if you choose me as your therapist.

However, not all individual therapy involves Redecision work, so I am careful in my approach in order to be flexible and stay close to what the individual needs. My encounter with individuals when doing individual therapy is often quite meaningful and sometimes even joyous for both of us. This occurs when I experience a generous meeting of what an individual needs with what  I have  to offer.  This reinforces the mutual satisfaction that can come from individual work.

A recent example is a young man who complained of such anxiety that he felt he might  have to take medication to control it—although he had never wanted to do so in the past.

I made no comment about medication but offered him what I do best—personally tailoring my skills in an effort to address his anxiety. 

After three months of treatment to allow his trust in me to develop, I began our session with a demonstration of a Gestalt exercise I have used successfully over my years of practice.

It’s called the Awareness Continuum. In this 5 minute exercise, a person becomes intensely focused on the Here and Now experiences that enter their awareness through all of their senses: Listening to one’s breath, naming out loud what one perceives outside oneself and the feelings emerging from inside oneself.

In this process, one must stop oneself when drifting into future plans or mulling over past events and memories. A person derives more benefit as one practices the Awareness Continuum. But in some cases there is an immediate relief of present anxieties and a sense of gratitude that one has the ability to control such an important aspect of one’s conscious life. 

Overtime the bonding that occurs between patient and psychotherapist becomes quite meaningful and helpful in making further changes in one’s life.