At Sunnyside Healing Arts, we are a team of psychotherapists passionate about whole person health and healing. In a warm, caring, supportive, accepting and non-judgmental environment, we will help you develop self-acceptance and improve your self-concept as you bravely learn to open your heart.
|Many of us are hurting from experiences in our lives that have been difficult to reconcile. Understanding that we did the best we could at the time based on our skills, knowledge and experience helps us move through pain and heal. We tend to blame the situation, person and/or ourselves for our pain and magnify it to a level of discomfort that initiates our search for a therapist of good fit. We can learn to trust in a safe client-therapist relationship, explore the past and develop an accurate self-concept to enhance our ability to ease pain, come to terms with the past and create the future that we desire.
Compassion and empathy are essential to create a safe space for clients to explore vulnerability, share and grow. Our experiences don’t define us – they can be used to understand our unique journeys and integrate our inner capacity of strength, resilience and courage that we only become familiar with in times of challenge. We will work with you to support you in transforming old patterns and reactions from destructive to productive. We have the power to free ourselves from an attachment to shadow and pain in order to embrace joy, increase energy and engage more meaningfully in our lives.
Raising consciousness in a largely unconscious world is not an easy task. Our therapists have tremendous respect and admiration for those who are willing to open their eyes to hard truths and disappointing circumstances. It is this powerful process of awakening to the real you that comprises the concept of personal growth and development. This is a focus of our practice.
Our caring therapists here to walk with you on your enriching healing journey, to live in the present, accept what can’t be changed and to change what can. We will guide you towards self-exploration and provide the tools to create the change; however it is clients that work to achieve their goals. This is incredibly empowering and what results in psychotherapy having a significantly lower relapse rate than traditional medical-model approaches.
We take a collaborative, client-centered approach, which constantly evolves with you and your unique experiences. Personal growth and development creates skills, knowledge and experience that you will keep forever. It is that from which you can effectively manage through whatever challenges arise in the future and achieve personal freedom.
Our therapists take a holistic view of whole-person health, which informs our approach to therapy. When we experience life, good and not-so-good, we feel it at the emotional, mental, physical and energetic levels. When one system is off, it affects all other systems in the body. We will help you learn to build and integrate the skills necessary to create change on all levels. What we hold in our hearts can be manifested as mental or physical pain and vice versa. It creates a stress response in the nervous system that affects heart, mind and body. When we learn these coping skills, we will have them forever.
We can transform our lives and challenges though powerful inner growth and development. We can experience enriching emotional health and create happiness. This improves whole-person health and wellbeing.
Our own experiences in psychotherapy inspired us work with others to help create the meaningful change that has transformed our own personal and professional lives.
