Welcome to my New Practice I am honoured to meet with clients who are adjusting to various problems physically, mentally, socially or culturally. I bring over 40 years of experience in the field of psychological and psychiatric care. I have now moved my practice to focus on each clients with his special life from the standpoint of Morita Therapy.

Informing my Practice is an Ecological Approach to Care:

As unique living creatures, we are humans and also mammals who reside on our planet and surrounding nature. Now days, we live in unstable times and can feel the state of our environment (and habitats) that are adjusting to changes. In many ways, we can easily get entangled in the vortex of psychic interaction which can fill us with worry and fear. Sometimes when we are caught in this loop we feel more and more anxious. Morita therapy can move us out of this vicious cycle and lift us out of this vortex.

●Morita therapy can assist gentle rest for those with trauma and psycho-somatic states; gradually Morita’s stages quiet the recall of their traumatic events because the environment Morita provides is safe and interesting. .
●Morita therapy can break the cycle of depressed thoughts “I am not worthy to live” and non-activity loops so one can live more fully according to their natural talents. The cycle of being over sensitive to other’s judgements lessen, too.
●One’s purpose in life can be advanced and feelings of desire for creative activity increases as one builds relationships to the natural and human surroundings naturally. One does not worry if a tree or bird likes them. Morita therapy breaks the cycle of social judgement syndrome.
●Eating Disorders: “Desire to be thin” or “fear to be fat” are the basic consideration which disturbs their authentic life activities, as is the desire to be loved and accepted. Of course wanting to be accepted is normal, but Morita breaks the cycle of self harm, isolation, and self-defeating ways of being.
●Developmental disorders: Some developmental delays make one’s authentic life harder, but one learns how to navigate in the world with delays.
●Morita was interested in character building rather than labelling personality disorders: By focusing on character integrity and development, one’s authentic can be more easily discovered and adapted to their life situation.
●Conflict in family, marriage and parent-child relationships are challenging, one person change can have an impact on the system. Morita therapists first insure a home is safe, and then brings a sequence of therapy that generates more attention to what is important for more sustainable connection (such as decreasing gaming and computer time and increasing community family time, such as cooking together).
●Schools and Society: The way of education, working place or community lose also their authenticity.

Invitation to Morita Therapy:
For those who suffer from such psychological situations I will be ready to their psychological problems and explain how to deal with them. For some problems I am also ready to implement group therapy.
One important principle of Morita Therapy is to disengage from “judgmental thinking” (to stop judging self or others), which can break a vicious cycle of thought. Another perspective is to experience Nature with all your senses, equally. (Bird watching is one way to do this). It is natural for humans to become less engaged in the social and environmental world when suffering from trauma; though some become overly involved as a response to trauma.
Morita therapy balances our engagement with the natural and social environment. Take yourself to a ‘safe’ place in Nature (some places may not feel safe if something bad happened there, so purposefully find a safe place): “Look at surroundings, listen to surrounding tones, birds singing wind breezing, etc. touch something around and feel, taste your food and smell something.” At all times, I have a duty of care to attend to each unique person and try to find the best way of life.

* My hobbies include: Piano, jogging, walking and rugby (when possible) and travel.

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