Transpersonal Therapists in Longboat Key, FL

I am a licensed Mental Health Counselor with a Doctorate degree in Counseling Psychology. I have been in the teaching and counseling fields for over twenty years, and am a certified RYT 200 yoga instructor. I use an integrative, holistic and active approach to health and wellness. I work to create a safe, supportive and trusting environment to help guide and facilitate personal healing and growth. Working in such areas as; life transition, interpersonal coping skills, PTSD, trauma, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, stress/anger management, behavioral issues, relationship issues, grief work, addictions, family issues, and beyond.

I am privileged to offer life changing services to adults, couples, & families. I see signs of distress as a disconnection from a Self that is awaiting our loving attention. There is hope for this reconnection. At our core lies a unique Center inscribed with your "blueprint" that maintains your health, wholeness, and vitality. The problem is that too many were conditioned to forget this priceless essence. Healing and wholeness are about remembering and returning to this very Center of who we uniquely are. For children and adolescents it's about nurturing it into realization so that It is never forgotten in the first place.

Dr. Katherine Best is dedicated to your wellbeing by providing a quick response and flexible hours of care. Building upon strengths, she uses a positive, non-judgmental approach to encourage growth and change. Dr. Best offers: psychotherapy, marriage and family therapy, trauma resolution, pre and post divorce counseling, family mediation for conflict resolution, clinical hypnosis, EMDR, archetypal pattern dream analysis, and life coaching. In addition, Dr. Katherine Best offers treatment for stress, anxiety, procrastination, depression, cumulative exposures to trauma, priest and clergy abuse, chronic pain, and insomnia.

As a holistic practitioner, who is also a psychotherapist, artist, healer and grandmother, I offer children and their families practical life changing tools and knowledge to meet everyday challenges. Children and adolescents are living a completely different childhood than we did and it is helpful to get a skilled and intuitive perpsective about these shifts. Some of the tools that I offer include: Mindfulness for kids and adolescents, Tapping or Emotional Freedom Techniques, Creative Arts, Hypnotherapy and Personalized Meditations.

Dr. Laura Garrison has over two decades of experience working with challenged and at-risk populations. With a Doctorate in Holistic Health, Laura specializes in integrative therapeutics with an emphasis on restorative modalities and trauma recovery. She is Board Certified as a Drugless Practitioner by the AADP; certified as an Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist; as a Yoga Therapist by the International Association of Yoga Therapists; is an E-RYT 500, and is authorized by the IAYT and Yoga Alliance as an E-RYT Continuing Education Provider. She facilitates therapeutic retreats and has written numerous publications.

Sometimes you need a good listener who won't judge you, who will really listen to understand, and not rush in to fix things. When you're going through a rough time, you need to be treated with care, respect and kindness. I tell new clients: "I am here to listen and understand, and when your ready to explore solutions just let me know." There have been many new, positive and effective innovations in the field of therapy. See reviews by real clients at https://www.healthgrades.com/providers/walter-botkin-2rsmb Check out my website at wbotkin.com.

Has your tender heart shut down, yet you long to open it again? Are you grieving the loss of a loved one or life as you knew it? Do you live with trauma, anxiety, unworthiness, shame, sadness? A relentless inner critic & obsessive thoughts? Are you ready to prioritize your inner healing so your heart can open? You will develop ways to practice more self-love & learn to receive and give safe love again. You will learn to accept the "unacceptable" parts of you, reclaim your frozen lost parts (Wounded Inner Child) gradually re-connect to your soul's true identity. You will move from survival/fear mode into more fun, creativity and joy.

I love helping people heal, develop and create healthier relationships. My passion is to facilitate transformational change that results in greater inner peace, healthy self love and joy in life and relationships. As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor I enjoy helping clients address underlying causes to symptoms like depression and anxiety. I am certified to do Neurotransmitter testing through Neuro Science and I work Holistically with an emphasis on Integrative and Functional care that focuses on the whole Being and helping clients to function optimally beyond just symptom relief.

How can I help you? At face value, it's a simple question. However, it's one that can have profound meaning when you are experiencing hardship and confusion in your life. It offers the opportunity for you to enter into a therapeutic working relationship. One that provides the professional guidance and support needed to resolve the issues that are contributing to the problems at hand. It also provides you the opportunity to develop a deeper sensitivity, understanding, and acceptance of your true self. It's the first step forward, towards a change for the better and a more fulfilling and meaningful life.

Welcome and thank you for visiting and taking the first step to personal well-being. People seek out psychotherapy for many reasons. My focus is to help identify what is most important to you in your life that you wish to strengthen and express more fully, even if you are facing difficulties right now. What may appear as obstacles at first can merely be stepping-stones to your deepest fulfillment. I welcome the opportunity to take part of that journey with you in a confidential environment committed to sensitivity and compassion with proven strategies that motivate and encourage continued success.

Would you like to have the understanding and the tools to feel lighter, more alive, more positive, more peaceful and whole? Working together in a collaborative process in teletherapy or in person, I assist you to discover heartfelt solutions to your most pressing issues. This is accomplished in a respectful atmosphere of safety, acceptance and non-judgment. You will learn new approaches and tools for coping. This process supports health, well being, and spiritual evolvement. With over forty years of experience as a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, I am grateful to still be learning and contributing.

At some point in our lives, we arrive at a crossroads where we realize that the ways in which we have been engaging in the world are no longer working for us. Our behaviors, values, and ways of thinking are so familiar and comfortable to us yet are simultaneously causing us grief and pain. We feel blocked from finding inner peace and reaching our full potential. The purpose of therapy is to help us recognize and work through these antiquated patterns so that we can start engaging with ourselves and the world around us in a fresh, new way that results in a healthier, happier, and more authentic life.

I enjoy engaging with people about their lives, hearing what matters to them, what's meaningful, and encouraging them to live lives in alignment with those preferences. I partner with people to feel the permission really to be alive. I find it important to keep the work connected to what clients value; that fuels the resilience to tolerate change, hard conversations, and uncomfortable feelings (common elements of therapy). Given this, my ideal client/s is interested in feeling more self-acceptance, capacity to tolerate others, and to face unhelpful, old patterns with love in order to encourage choice and the possibility of change.

Please call 253-352-2480 or email me directly at inner.wellth@yahoo.com to schedule an intake or a free consultation for 15 minutes. It can be a scary thing to reach out for help and support! You might feel like there might be judgment or misunderstanding! Maybe you're puzzled as to why you haven't reached your goals, wondering what's holding you back? What are the barriers? I also offer EMDR and ART (accelerated resolution therapy) if we feel you're "stuck". Maybe you've never considered what you really want in life? Are you in a transition in life? I'd love to help you get to where you want to go!

The best therapy always starts with being accurately listened to, so you can feel deeply known. Then as we learn more about yourself, you build your inner awareness of your emotions, thinking patterns and interpersonal processes. I will be with you in each moment, neutrally observing you, and coaching you to do the same for yourself. Watching together instead of judging. Moving your personal narrative into your embodied experience. We then work together applying many tools for change. My therapeutic style supports you, taking your vague desires, or back burner dreams and making them into actionable words, goals, tools.

I provide a safe environment to explore and resolve beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that stand in the way of living a fully conscious and authentic life. Specialties include work with anxiety, depression, trauma, divorce, death, attachment ruptures, and ancestral/ inter-generational shame, and PTSD. As a Marriage and Family Therapist, I have studied at the Graduate Theological Union - University of California, Berkeley, The Graduate School for Marriage and Family Therapy, Ca.Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco), and The Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. I hold two Masters degrees and a Ph D in Psychology.

Are you ready to change your life? We have all experienced negativity and trauma in our lives. Even very small things we don't remember from our past affect us now- but they don't have to. Hypnotherapy isn't just for smoking and weight loss. It's highly effective for managing stress, addiction, bad habits, sleeping, grief, PTSD, feeling stuck/out of control, anxiety, confidence, anger, creative blocks - or virtually anything else that is causing a negative impact in your life. Get your conscious and subconscious minds aligned to achieve your dreams. Truly live life the life you want! In person and virtual sessions available.