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Although this is my very first experience with a blog, I am hoping it will be a powerful tool to communicate with my clients between sessions and with others who do not have access to the Energy Psychotherapy Clinic, but are nevertheless interested in learning about and participating in the healing process through energy methods.

I want to give you a little background about my path to energy healing, as you might be surprised to find me pursuing these methodologies, given my very traditional academic and clinical career experiences (I will not detail my professional biographical information here, but if you are interested, see my web page on Psychologytoday.com and the page about my credentials in the energypsychotherapyclinic.com website that this blog is a part of).  In summary, however, is that through the years my main thematic interest has been child maltreatment; my methodological path has been teaching, research and consulting; and  my clinical speciality has been psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral psychotherapy, particularly for conditions and disorders that arise from childhood trauma (as nearly all do).  I also developed a personal interest along the way in brain conditions such as attention deficit disorder, and have treated many patients for the traumatic effects of this largely misunderstood brain “difference.”   

I have had great success in learning about and teaching about the link between early traumatizing events and current disabling conditions, and helping clients understand and then break the habits of mind and behavioral addictions that are making their lives shallow and painful.  But talk therapy takes a great deal of time and is ineffective for some conditions.   A person can understand their patterns, where these patterns came from, and the ways in which they are “shooting themselves in the foot” by holding onto these patterns, but still be unable to change their behavior because of that “feeling” they get in certain situations that is so intangible, yet so unpleasant that they will avoid it at all costs.  I have come to believe that feeling is a blockage of the subtle energy that we all have flowing through our bodies.  It is like a knot, a tangle, and because it is not supposed to be there, it feels bad.  It is the bad feeling we have when we remember something embarrassing, or exploitative, or cruel or sad.  These energy knots do dissipate with therapy, but in a “top down,” and therefore somewhat inefficient way.  With these traditional modalities, the mind affects the brain, which down the line impacts the energy flow.  Energy therapies operate in a more “bottom up” fashion, clearing the energy directly, making unecessary the compensatory thoughts and behaviors that have developed.