Clean Living Series
Is it really possible to craft a win/win method of solving many of the most entrenched interpersonal issues we face? Can we be released from….?
win/lose CAPITULATION and DOMINATION?
mini-lose/mini-lose COMPROMISE?
lose/lose DENIAL and AVOIDANCE?
The 1-2-3 Dialogue can be thought of as a simple set of rules that govern conflict. We are familiar with this concept when it comes to the sports arena or even war between nations. However, in the most important areas of our lives, conflicts are largely unregulated, with no agreed upon rules to protect the participants or the relationship.
“True human sincerity, true transparency…is a rare and difficult thing; and so much of it depends on the person who is listening to us!” Effective listening involves three main skills: Paying Attention, Following, and Reflecting.
Judgments, criticisms, diagnoses and interpretations of others are all alienated expressions of our own needs and values. The more directly we can connect our needs to our feelings, the easier it is for us to respond compassionately.
Service Articles
Relational Therapy with Ascend provides a safe, facilitated space for couples, families and/or relationships of all varieties to work through conflicts, enhance love and connection, and heal past wounds…
At Ascend, we currently offer “walk and talk” sessions and customized events outdoors. We have found our clients deeply resonate experiencing the natural world, the elements and the changing of seasons through our work together…
Polyvagal theory explains the role that our autonomic nervous system (ANS), which you could consider the smoke detector of the body, plays in our ability to feel safe and connected in our day to day lives…
Brainspotting is an innovative, brain-based intervention that helps identify, process, and heal neurophysiological sources of trauma, emotional pain, dissociation, and a variety of other symptoms, as well as enhance creativity and performance enhancement…
DBT Skill Training helps you develop the art of experiencing your emotions and senses fully, with a broad view of life’s complex situations and the ability to make skillful choices towards building the life you want…
The Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs has seen incredibly positive results among soldiers, military personnel, victims of violence, abuse, war, etc. One clinical study of single-trauma patients, 84% to 90% of people no longer had PTSD after only three 90-minutes sessions…
Many people think of hypnosis as inducing sleep; that’s actually not the case. The hypnotic trance is a simple shifting back and forth between the conscious and subconscious mind. It is a natural state of mind that many of us encounter in everyday life, on a regular basis…
EFT means "Emotional Freedom Technique." It’s a powerful self-help method based on research showing that emotional trauma contributes greatly to disease…
Life Coaching can take many different forms based on the training and personality of your coach. At Ascend, I value the coaching world and the many amazing professionals who inhabit it. I also recognize that this branch of self-help is like the Wild West! Truly, anybody can call themselves a “coach”…
This is an approach to well-being that takes your whole person into account (mental, physical, emotional), as well as the various ‘systems’ you live in. We start with an in-depth assessment, and design our work together with the modalities and experiences that will best help you heal and grow...
Misc. Articles
Doubt and faith are old friends holding hands in their walk along the changing shoreline of life. They are not enemies but are in fact lovers.
Like a wild beast tamed to domestication, is humanity in her addiction to simulation and safety. Somewhere deep in her heart lies a spark of the ferocity of what she once was.
Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.
“People come to therapy because their life circumstances have somehow disrupted the the story they tell themselves about who they are. But even then the healing isn’t only about the new story we fashion. It’s about the intimacy…
Integrative medicine, which makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches to achieve optimal health and healing, has to involve not only the practical and effective teamwork of a diverse array of providers, but also the marriage of approaches, conventional AND complementary (or CAM)
This is what we do for each other. Sometimes, we hold the hope, and sometimes, others hold it for us. For who and what do you hold the hope… and who holds it for you?