Holistic Therapy
clarity about who you are and
reconnect with your intrinsic wholeness
In holistic therapy, you will learn an approach to transforming life’s many challenges into opportunities for growth. With skills of mindfulness and intention, you will foster new habits: observing, pausing and finding wise responses. You will gradually feel more empowered when you no longer react from habitual patterns. Essentially, you will gain clarity for a more authentic relationship with yourself and others.
Therapy informed by holistic approaches aims to welcome all of you.
Holistic therapy provides a space for you to interrogate expectations, obligations and should-s, as well as the unwholesome thoughts of your inner critic. First, how exhausting! Secondly, do you agree with such thoughts? Examining the roots and intentions of such internal workings, you will gain perspective, decide which are useful, while others may no longer be serving you.Â
In general, you will be invited into rich inquiry with thought-provoking questions, and gently supported to better understand inner conflicts. With awareness, welcoming all parts can be a path to discovering your core values.Â
Holistic therapy will help you build skills to orient awareness to the present moment—here and now—to notice how your thoughts and words intertwine with feelings in the body. Slowly, you will begin to feel as though you have choices regarding both what you do, and how you feel about what happens in your life.
Part of the process is learning how to gain wisdom from a full spectrum of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral experiences. Most importantly, the goal is for you to live following what truly feels right for you. You will learn to discern what’s true to your essence.Â
With a holistic lens on therapy, Michele Kong holds space for you to:
- Clarify your own values and beliefs
- Learn more skillful communication
- Examine blocks, obstacles and stuck-ness
- Unearth hidden needs and desires
- Work through inner conflicts and dilemmas
- Gain perspective on family and cultural dynamics
- Set and reaffirm healthy boundaries
- Navigate racial and cultural identity issues
- Clarify your own values and beliefs
- Learn more skillful communication
- Explore blocks, obstacles and stuck-ness
- Discover greater self-expression
- Unearth hidden needs and desires
- Work through inner conflicts and dilemmas
- Gain perspective on family and cultural dynamics
- Set and reaffirm healthy boundaries
- Navigate racial and cultural identity issues
“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time. This expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exit through any other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open…” —Martha Graham, Dancer/Choreographer, creator of Graham Technique
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Holistic therapy includes:
- Creativity, laughter and play
- Honoring values, strengths and limitations
- Mindfulness to develop awareness and choice
- Emphasizing and nurturing resilience
- Acceptance of every behavior, emotion and coping strategy as having an important function
- Shadow and parts work to better understand inner critics, bullies, protectors, perfectionists and their companions
- Experimentation in order to fulfill your most heartfelt longings
- Other artful ways to uncover deeper meaning
Mostly, you are seeking relief and tangible change.
Of course, you want to live your best life.
Perhaps you have had prior talk-therapy experiences, and are looking for something a little different. Maybe you’ve started meditating and are learning to notice your monkey mind, or how to cultivate beginner’s mind. Similarly, perhaps you’ve been studying yoga—or other mind-body practices—and are beginning to see the interconnection between thoughts, emotions and the body.
Regardless of the process of discovery, you’re ready for individualized support from a holistic therapist. Above all, you want to find what can help with what’s surfacing. Furthermore, you can commit to ongoing learning, reflecting on your behaviors, and gaining insights that can be applied towards new actions. Finally, you also understand how healing takes time.
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Common concerns:
- Anxiety and panic attacks
- Career dissatisfaction
- Crossroads and life transitions
- Difficulties speaking up
- Grief, loss and bereavement
- Heartbreak
- Loneliness and isolation
- Low self-esteem
- People-pleasing
- Social anxiety
- Unfulfilling relationships
Holistic therapy can appeal to many, yet the journey has varied terrain. At first, you may find relief from having professional support and a compassionate witness. Straightaway, you may make incremental changes and feel encouraged.
Holistic therapy for:
- Change-makers
- Creatives
- Educators
- Healthcare workers
- High-achievers
- Mission-driven professionals
- Perfectionists
- Tech innovators
- Yogis and meditators
- BIPOC
- Chameleons
- Immigrants and Refugees
- Descendants thereof i.e. 1.5, 2nd, 3rd…generation
- Multi-lingual and multicultural
- Multi-racial
- Nonconformists
- Outliers and marginalized folk
Of course, in therapy of any kind you will experience forward movements. Then, you may feel like you’ve backtracked. Once in a while, steps along the way may feel really difficult and challenging. The road might open up, and then, narrow, wind and twist. Later, you will leap ahead re-inspired again. All of these movements are natural for changing, growing and healing.
In short, holistic therapy encourages you to make space for all of it. By embracing the ups and downs, holistic therapy will inevitably empower you to meet whatever life presents you with wholeheartedness.
Holistic therapy is a process where you will experiment with new possibilities and embrace greater acceptance. The result is a deeply satisfying experience: to feel that your life is authentically yours, to know your true nature, and to align with What Really Matters to you.Â
“Learning to rely upon and trust the intuitive wisdom of your body as you’ve been depending upon and trusting your cognitive mind marks a homecoming. Tissue and bone, cell and fiber, our bodies carry an unbiased desire for a genuine conscious relationship with the soul.”
—Paula M. Reeves, PhD, author of Women’s Intuition
