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the space between therapy and coaching
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Our Relationship
Research shows that the relationship accounts for 70% of what makes therapy and coaching work. Having someone in your corner who can facilitate your process with insight, clarity, and empathy is a sacred thing indeed – and Jane is willing to be that someone for you. What you learn in this relationship, you can take to every other relationship in your life. We are, after all, relational beings.
Systems & Attachment
Jane’s approach is drawn from both family systems and attachment theories, which means she attends to the family of origin of each client and their relationships with primary attachment figures.
She believes that our expectations of the world and others in it are significantly impacted by our early-life experiences, and frequently observes how interactional patterns come down the generations and play out in our adult relationships.
By figuring out the patterns that no longer serve us, we can figure out who we are now, own our power and our place in the world.
Psychoeducation
Jane brings her years as a university faculty member to her work, always seeking to provide clients with an understanding of why interactions go down in the way that they do. She is known for her diagrams, charts and explanations – from the brain, to boundaries, to triangles, to relational dynamics to bingo cards. Her educational style promotes understanding of how we all come by our issues honestly, enabling greater compassion for ourselves, for others, and for our shared humanity.
EMDR
Jane first experienced EMDR as a client and found it so life-changing that she trained in it herself and built her therapy practice around it. While EMDR was originally used for the treatment of trauma and PTSD, it can be applied to help with pretty much anything – from sleep disturbance to unexplained pain and medical conditions to finding freedom from the voice of the inner-critic.
Jane uses the EMDR model to find the root of many unexplained symptoms, career-limiting issues and blocks to success, marveling at the ability of the brain and body to heal itself when given the facilitation it needs.
“The brain is predisposed to heal itself but sometimes needs help facilitating that process. EMDR provides that help.”
Energy Psychology
Many people have heard of Energy Healing, which is used by doctors, nurses, chiropractors and other healers, often for treating physical issues. Energy Psychology uses the same processes but is employed by psychotherapists and coaches to improve physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
Energy Psychology approaches (which include the TFT and EFT forms of tapping) are empirically validated and are especially effective in the treatment of trauma.
Interventions are unique in that they manage to be gentle and highly effective with very few (if any) adverse effects, and work in a short amount of time. They can be used as standalone techniques, or blended with other more traditional forms of therapy, coaching and medical care.
Tapping
While Tapping essentially comes under the banner of Energy Psychology because of its use of the body’s meridian system, the two models of Tapping, TFT (Thought Field Therapy) and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), are so well known that they stand as treatment modalities in their own right.
Jane is trained in both TFT and EFT and weaves them seamlessly through her treatment process. And, unlike EMDR which needs a skilled facilitator to keep the process safe and on-track, Tapping can be done anywhere to effectively treat emotional distress, reduce physical pain or eliminate disturbing images, which means clients can use Tapping between sessions too.
Coactive® Coaching
Jane added Coactive Coaching to her portfolio in 2017, in order to extend the arc of her clients’ experience from healing to growth to new beginnings.
Coaching is the permission to make a change in your career, your primary relationships, your location, your health. Coaching is the permission to write a book, to open a restaurant, to climb Mount Everest or to spend every day with the love of your life.
The Coactive Coaching model believes that every person is naturally creative, resourceful and whole. This means that all of us have the ability to dream big, to live out our values and to find our life’s purpose – hopefully long before we reach retirement. But sometimes we need a collaborator, a cheer-leader and a co-conspirator to help us find our uniqueness, nurture the seedlings of our ideas and bring energy, excitement and movement into our plans.
