Washington DC Psychotherapy
Washington DC Psychotherapy
by Keith Miller, LICSW – Washington DC Psychotherapy
We use a modern approach to psychotherapy that will empower your existing strengths. It is a systematic process to remove emotional or relational blocks in areas that prevent you from being your absolute best and making the changes you want to make.
 There are a few key areas that make Washington DC psychotherapy with us distinct from traditional psychotherapy. Working together, we will:
- Focus just on the issues most relevant to your goals
- Use a building-block strategy that reliably changes entrenched psychological or behavioral patterns
- Gain access to “new intelligence” about yourself instead of simply reshuffling information you already have
- Utilize experiential (in the moment) learning tools to become more competent at using your emotions productively
- Be able to tell quickly if the work we are doing is actually starting to address your concerns
- Make adjustments in our approach if either of us notice that your goals aren’t being addressed by Washington DC psychotherapy
- Respect the parts of you that are hardest to change and position ourselves as allies with them. Things that won’t change easily earn that status for a reason. We can learn about extraordinary capacities we thought we never had when we seek to understand and appreciate the hidden positive agenda behind some of our least liked or understood aspects of our personality–our Washington DC psychotherapy can help you do this.
- Know exactly when and why it is relevant to discuss things in your past including your childhood or relationship to your family of origin (no “fishing expeditions” that old-school therapists are sometimes known for that dive into your distant past without clear purpose or understanding of what to do with that information.)
These are just a few of the ways that make our Washington DC psychotherapy unique.
Real Change by Creating Emotional Intelligence — With Washington DC Psychotherapy
Research shows that real change is possible when the brain is emotionally activated in a controlled manner. We pay attention to the kind of conversations we have with you to help you make the most progress in Washington DC psychotherapy.
Standard psychotherapy relies on talking about yourself, which possibly creates one of two unproductive scenarios in which you: a) Recall and exchange information at an intellectual level about your issue (not enough emotional activation to create deep change) or; b) recall and become flooded with emotion about your issue (not enough intellectual activation to create deep change). We often seek counseling just to talk with someone that will understand us. We’ll provide that kind of alliance and be a guide to help you learn more about yourself and make your life better with Washington DC psychotherapy.
If it is right for your situation, we will use a highly advanced form of mindfulness psychotherapy called Internal Family Systems (IFS) or Self-Leadership (not to be confused with family therapy). In my experience, this kind of mindfulness psychotherapy reliably avoids common pitfalls of traditional Washington DC psychotherapy and achieves deep and lasting psychological changes.
We are trained and experienced in several major approaches to psychotherapy and mental health and use several approaches interchangeably. IFS is the most complex and flexible of these and stands out among them in my experience.
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