Nicholas Power Registered Psychotherapist
4 - 623 Christie St.,Détails de l'entreprise
Description
I come to the work of psychotherapy through seven years of training and many years of personal therapy. I’ve done community work and teaching at all levels, and I continue to write fiction and poetry. The Centre for Training in Psychotherapy has been the crucible for finding myself as a therapist. Particularly through the process of group psychotherapy I’ve come to know the usefulness of psychodynamic interaction. There is a particular kind of listening that can help bring the client closer to their core self. That level of resonance is possible in the depth of conversation, the exploration of dreams and the free associating done in the privacy of a therapy session.
As a teacher I worked with non-verbal students living with autism. I’ve become attuned to the many ways that communication can take place. I can offer this understanding to clients, some of whom may come from families where a close relative is living with autism or developmental delays.
To apply to the therapeutic process what the poet William Stafford said about poetry: in therapy …any little impulse is accepted and enhanced…The therapist’s stance is neutral, ready, susceptible to now…Only the client ‘knows’ where they are going, and the role for a therapist is one of responding, not imposing.
By following the tiny impulses in the particular relationship with the therapist, the client may find himself or herself closer to “the self most centrally theirs.” It would be too much to claim that the practice of therapy will establish a good, a serene, a superior self. No. But if pursued for itself, therapy will bring into realization the “self most centrally yours.” Therapy doesn’t make a necessarily better person, only a more genuine one.
Certifications et associations
RP, B.Ed., CTP Dipl, Member CAPT
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Langues disponibles
- English
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