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About Therapy
How
Do I Know When It Is Time to Get Support?
What Is a Marriage and
Family Therapist?
How Long Does Therapy
Last?
How Does Therapy
Work?
What
Type of Therapy Is Offered?
About
The Office
How
Do I Get More Information or Schedule an Appointment?
Where Is Your Office Located?
What Is Your Fee?
Will My Insurance
Cover Therapy?
About
Therapy
How Do I Know When It Is Time to Get Support?
It may be time to seek out a therapist when daily chores become
arduous tasks and keep you from feeling good. Experiencing chronic
feelings of stress, anxiety, depression, or chronic relationship
problems in either your personal or work life are all good reasons
to begin therapy. Keep in mind that it is more effective to engage
in therapy for prevention rather than intervention; that is, not
waiting until personal issues become immediate crises. Additionally,
persons who are seeking clarity and balance in their lives, those
on a quest for personal growth, individuals inhibited by past
hurt, and those who are at crossroads relationally, emotionally,
physically, or spiritually would greatly benefit from engaging
in a therapeutic relationship.
What Is a Marriage and Family Therapist?
Marriage and Family Therapists are psychotherapists and healing
arts practitioners licensed by the State of California. All Marriage
and Family Therapists hold either Masters or Doctoral degrees,
within the fields of counseling and psychology, from state board
accredited universities and are required to complete a minimum
of 3500 hours of counseling experience before becoming eligible
for licensure. Marriage and Family Therapists (MFTs) are core
mental health practitioners and relationship specialists trained
to assess, diagnose, and treat individuals, couples, families,
and groups to achieve more fulfilling and productive personal,
marital, familial, and social relationships. A Marriage and Family
Therapist does not offer solutions or take sides. Instead, an
MFT will assist you in working out solutions according to your
own personal values and lifestyle. Seeking professional support
is a sign of courage and a willingness to deal with life's many
changes.
How Long Does Therapy Last?
Each session lasts 50 minutes. Therapy can be both short- and
long-term, ranging from one or two sessions to many months, depending
on the complexity of the issues presented, your personal goals,
and your ability to apply the skills learned in each session to
your everyday life.
How Does Therapy Work?
In this safe and confidential environment, Nicole helps you look
objectively at your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, while teaching
you ways to deal with different situations. You will explore personal
issues with someone who has unique listening skills, and is more
neutral than those who are directly involved in your life. Nicole
will provide you with feedback to support your emotional release
and help guide you in finding your own solutions to personal problems.
In addition to talk therapy, sometimes other modalities, such
as drawing, writing, or guided imagery, are included in the therapy
process, depending on the needs of each individual client. Keep
in mind that your relationship with your therapist plays a crucial
role in benefiting from treatment; therefore it’s important
to find a therapist who you feel heard, understood, and accepted
by.
What Type of Therapy Is Offered?
Often times, Nicole will utilize a combination of the following
therapies depending on the needs of each client. The effectiveness
of therapy relies not on the type of therapy utilized, but rather
on how various therapies are applied with each client and on the
therapeutic relationship itself.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy – CBT posits that our thoughts
are quite powerful and subsequently cause our feelings and behaviors.
CBT also assumes that we all hold illogical, negative thoughts
that keep us from feeling good. Often times these thoughts are
created in early childhood, and so they’re repeated over
time and have become so automatic that we often aren’t aware
that we have them. Engaging in CBT provides you with an opportunity
to objectively examine your cognitions and learn tools to modify
your thought patterns, so that dysfunctional emotions and behaviors
get eliminated. This type of therapy provides a useful system
for evaluation and resolving problems that are the result of our
mistaken beliefs and patterns of thought. CBT is active, structured,
and short-term and expects that clients engage in homework exercises
to more readily incorporate these skills learned in therapy into
their everyday life. CBT is highly effective for those clients
suffering from depression, anxiety, relationship problems, phobias,
food issues, feelings of rejection, and fear of failure.
Humanistic Therapy – This therapy emphasizes the uniqueness
and inherent ability of each of us to achieve greatness. It focuses
on current behaviors and encourages individuals to take responsibility
for their own thoughts, feelings, and actions. The goals of humanistic
therapies are to increase personal awareness, to increase sense
of personal responsibility for one’s actions and destiny,
and to help clients live in the moment and become more present
in their daily life. Humanistic therapies are woven into all sessions
with clients as their tools are necessary for a caring and respectful
relationship between client and therapist.
Psychodynamic Therapy – Psychodynamic therapy strives to
heighten your level of self-awareness for improved emotional health.
It uses the basic assumption that everyone stores in his or her
subconscious mind thoughts and feelings that are often too painful
to be faced. Thus we come up with defenses, such as denial, to
protect us from knowing about these painful feelings. Psychodynamic
therapy helps people to acknowledge and process the difficult
feelings that often cause them to engage in unhealthy and detrimental
patterns of relating to themselves and others. The goal of this
therapy is to provide clients with a level of acceptance as well
as a clearing for the future to ensure healthier and more fulfilling
life choices. Psychodynamic therapy is generally longer-term than
CBT as family dynamics and interpersonal relationships are explored
in more detail.
Expressive Arts Therapy - Expressive arts therapy is the intentional
use of the creative arts as a form of therapy. Unlike traditional
art expression, the process of creation is emphasized rather than
the final aesthetic product. Expressive therapy works under the
assumption that through use of imagination and the various forms
of creative expression, people can heal. The expressive arts include
art, dance, music, drama, and poetry. Although Nicole is not a
certified Expressive Arts therapist, her training in the field
has provided her with tools to effectively use some of these modalities
with clients. The expressive arts are especially beneficial for
those suffering from intense emotional hurt, which may be difficult
to identify and verbalize.
Questions
About the Office
How Do I Get More Information or Schedule
an Appointment?
Call (858) 442-5548, Monday–Friday, 9am–7pm, or contact
me here.
Where
Is Your Office Located?
Medical Wellness Kliniek
3268 Governor Drive
San Diego, California 92122
(858) 457-0191 (P)
(858) 457-0378 (F)
For directions visit, www.pamperyou.com
Medical Wellness Kliniek is a holistic healthcare center providing
clients with a wide range of alternative medicines. I work collaboratively
with the other healthcare professionals to ensure that clients
receive comprehensive care. As I am an avid believer in natural
medicine, referrals are made to the naturopathic physician, the
homeopathic doctor, the acupuncturist, the nutritionist, the chiropracter,
or the clinical aromatherapist when necessary.
What
Is Your Fee?
Please contact me about my current fee. I do offer limited sliding-scale
appointments based on income and ability to pay. If you need a
reduced fee, I encourage you to let me know. If I cannot accommodate
your financial situation, I will do my best to aid you in finding
appropriate referrals.
Will
My Insurance Cover Therapy?
Many health insurance plans pay for a certain number of mental
health visits, but they may only pay for services provided by
in-network providers. Call your insurance company and ask if Nicole
Kahn, MFC #42737, is an in-network provider. If she is not, ask
your insurance company about out-of-network benefits that you
can utilize for her mental health services. |
