Resources for all persons seeking personal growth and/or healing. Reflections and information on psychotherapy best practices integrated with spirituality
Houston, TX
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As new therapy modalities come out and new approaches develop I notice how much the Truth works....in other words, that which is salient in healing tends to bear itself out in solid scientific research. Thus, the awareness of what is effective, tends to be in line with truthful science. Now there is a difference between science which has a political aim and that which uses good methodology such as double blind studies, and that which acknowledges and publishes even if the hypothesis is proved to be untrue. All information is useful.
I am grateful to my undergrad psychology department at Rice University for the very strong, relentlessly detailed grounding in what makes for good academic, scientific research and what this involves. While I wanted to be in direct service doing therapy, I could not have imagined how far the field has strayed from presenting detailed honest evidence regardless of the political climate of the day. What does this mean for the consumer ? Well, hopefully it helps at least remind you that when an article states, research proves or research suggests, that you delve further into how the study was done, by whom, and is it only suggestive of a correlation or does it in fact have evidence that suggests a causal relationship.
Why do I mention this in introducing my practice? Well, after 30 years in private practice and 7 working in psychiatric hospitals prior to then, I can honestly say there are some therapeutic approaches which stand the test of time, and while renamed and repackaged over the years, the truly useful theory, therapy and methodology continues to offer help and healing. One cannot dismiss regardless of the approach, the ever old and new research demonstrating client-therapist relationship and specifically the qualities of the therapist involving respect, positive regard and authenticity with a client. So both science and spirituality are important to incorporate in therapy where the client is amenable to such, since these often suggest a dovetailing of what is effective.
Welcome to West Houston Counseling and Assessment Center ...we remain carefully mindful and open to evaluating how we can best serve persons seeking assistance. Thus, we have made online therapy available as appropriate to those in Texas over the last 4 years, while telephone therapy has been provided for many years as appropriate and needed.
