Holistic therapy is where you learn skills of mindfulness, which lead to greater acceptance of yourself and others.
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 seeing things as they are, and develop greater acceptance of yourself and others.
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 processes, you will gain perspective, decide what’s useful, while some may no longer be serving you.
Mostly, you are seeking relief and tangible change. Of course, you want to live your best life.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Holistic therapy will help you build skills to orient awareness to the present moment—here and now—to notice how 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 the 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.
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
With a holistic lens on therapy, Michele L. Kong holds space for you to:
- Clarify your own values and beliefs
- Learn more skillful communication
- Explore + move beyond obstacles, blocks 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