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Counselling and Energy Therapy for Individuals, Couples and Families
Our counsellor, Sylvia Polay Griffith, BA, MEd, Chartered Psychologist, employs a holistic healing perspective in her therapeutic work with people. She offers her expertise in marital and family therapy as well as various individual concerns such as anger, depression, low self-esteem, anxiety, phobias, grief, past and current abuse, learning difficulties and trauma resolution. In the past several years she has been able to achieve quicker results through supplementing traditional psychotherapy with various energy techniques such as Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT), Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Brain Gym (Educational Kinesiology) She has provided services in a wide variety of settings including hospitals, educational facilities, spiritual centres and counselling agencies.
Note: Chartered Psychologist's fees are covered under most health insurance plans. Counselling fee is $100.00 per hour. Subsidy may be available if there is financial need. Call 210-2802 for more information or an appointment for counselling in Calgary
Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT)
USES OF TAT This elegantly simple energy-based technique developed by Tapas Fleming, is very effective for a wide range of problems such as: allergies physical traumas - car accidents, assaults, etc. emotional issues - phobias, traumas, anxiety, sexual aversions or addictions, anger, low self-esteem and depression. incorrect beliefs
TAT improvements usually are permanent. Once an allergy has been cleared the body is no longer allergic to the allergen. It is not symptomatic relief; it is a cure based on correcting the immune system's mistaken belief that a benign substance is dangerous. It was TAT's ability to clear allergies that convinced me that it was, indeed, a very effective tool and motivated me to become a Certified TAT Practitioner.
TAT THEORY Trauma often causes blockage or stagnation in one or more energy flows in our body. As we automatically react with thoughts such as "No, this can't be" or "This is too much for me" or "I can't survive this", our inability to accept and process the event results in energy imbalances and unhelpful patterns of mental, emotional, and physical behavior and health. TAT allows our body-mind system to take a second look at the traumatic event and see it accurately rather than continue to deny its reality. In doing a TAT we correct the energy imbalance, returning it to a normal state. The unhelpful or incorrect beliefs, emotions and mind-sets that were frozen in place at the time of trauma are then able to be processed and released in a normal way.
TAT can sometimes clear up long-standing problems in one treatment. A middle-aged woman had suffered from a phobia of heights all her life. She could not even walk up a set of bleachers without developing vertigo and feeling faint. After one treatment she was able to ride up the glass elevator at Canada Olympic Park, stand outside on the 90 metre ski jump and ride back down on the chair lift without symptoms. Several clients with severe anger problems have felt surprisingly less angry after doing the TAT. Others who had been nervous drivers/passengers following car accidents found they could even drive past the scenes of their accidents without heart-pounding anxiety. TAT can often take the trauma out of past experiences of abuse, enabling clients to cope better in their current relationships. The beauty of the TAT and similar energy techniques such as Emotional Freedom Technique is the speed and gentleness with which they can promote recovery. Issues usually considered to require long term therapy are often successfully treated in one or a few sessions. Please call 210-2802 to book a treatment with the Tapas Acupressure Technique in Calgary. To learn more about TAT you can use the link at the bottom of the page or google "Tapas Acupressure Technique". There are dozens of interesting sites.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
Emotional Freedom Technique, developed by Gary Craig, works in a similar way to TAT. Simply stated, EFT is a unique version of acupuncture except no needles are used. Instead, you stimulate well established energy meridian points on your body by tapping on them with your fingertips. The process is easy to memorize and is portable so you can do it anywhere. Many people have been amazed to find a specific negative emotion fade away after a few rounds of tapping. Please call 210-2802 to book an appointment for an Emotional Freedom Technique session in Calgary, or see Gary Craig's site www.emofree.com for more information on the types of problems it can be used for.
Educational Kinesiology/Brain Gym
This is a another therapeutic system that I have found to be very effective. Educational Kinesiology delineates the theory of brain development through movement. Brain Gym, an essential part of Edu-K, is a set of integrated movements that enhance learning and neural development. Movement awakens and activates many of our mental capacities; it integrates and anchors new information and experience into our neural networks. Through movement and stimulation, neural pathways can reorganize themselves.
BRAIN GYM IMPROVES: attention deficit disorder or learning disabilities. Certain movements, in conjunction with procedures called balances, facilitate development of immature areas of the brain, increase flow of information across the band of tissue connecting the two hemispheres, and enable the brain to function more efficiently in stressful situations poor academic performance. Each person has a dominance profile which determines how he or she learns best. Some people are visual learners, some are auditory learners and some learn best when they are able to do something "hands on". Once this profile is determined by an Edu-K practitioner, beneficial changes can be made in the learning environment, and a program of simple Brain Gym movements can be practiced at home to develop or retrain certain areas of the brain. Brain Gym balances may be done during therapy sessions to correct sub-optimal patterns of brain use. performance deterioration due to anxiety. Everyday life stresses cause the non-dominant hemisphere of the brain to partially "shut down", as if on a dimmer switch. Obviously we do not do our best thinking or communicating when we are functioning primarily from one hemisphere. There are several simple movements to "turn on" both hemispheres, enabling one to make a better presentation, be more physically coordinated or more articulate during a discussion. exam anxiety. Learn to turn on both hemispheres of your brain and write good exams. inability to communicate well when upset. Learn to stay calm and articulate
Please call 210-2802 to book an appointment or learn more about Brain Gym in Calgary
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