Create: Center for Expressive Arts Therapy and Education

07/07/2025

03/03/2025

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Anne Walbridge, Pre-Licensed Professional, Manchester, NH, 03103, (877) 384-3913, Whether you are needing a space for reflection, to process a painful experience, or for relationship support, you are in the right place. I firmly believe in the power of healing through connection, making the therapeu...

02/10/2025

Know your patterns and make a path to more productive thoughts.

08/30/2024

08/29/2024

What is Geek Therapy?

Geek Therapy is an affinity-based model and the theory has three key components: Affinity (A), Resonance (R), and Understanding (U).

Which work together as a formula: Affinity + Resonance = Understanding. Or A + R = U.

Affinity + Resonance = Understanding

Affinity
The goal of Geek Therapy is to facilitate reaching new insights or understanding about a person, through an affinity. It is an affinity-based model and therefore it’s worth spending some time with the word and why I prefer it to the terms such as interest, like, love, or preference. The key part is the attraction. When I say that a client has an affinity for something, I mean that they may not be able to explain why they like it or prefer it. They just do. It makes them feel something, usually positive.

An affinity can be subtle or intense. A subtle affinity might be a color preference, such as choosing to sit in the blue chair versus the green chair. An intense affinity might be a room dedicated to Star Wars memorabilia.

Resonance
Once we’ve identified an affinity, we look for experiences of resonance or relatability. In other words, the client makes a connection between them and the affinity. The client sees themself in a character or situation, or is reminded about a previous experience.

Resonance can be positive or negative. Positive resonance brings up strong positive feelings like joy and excitement. If it is negative, we can refer to it as repulsion, and it also brings up emotions we can work with. We can ask why something made them angry, sad, scared, or disappointed.

Understanding
The combination of the affinity and relatable experiences allows the therapist and client to explore thoughts and feelings in a comfortable and meaningful context.

The affinity provides a comfortable, safe context for exploring otherwise uncomfortable thoughts and difficult emotions.

Through reflection and exploration, thoughts and feelings may start to make more sense. New insights can help inform alternative behaviors and beliefs, as well as new potential solutions.

Source: https://geektherapy.org/geek-therapy-the-theory/

08/26/2024

Today is National Dog Day!
Founded in 2004 by Animal Welfare Advocate and Pet Lifestyle Expert, Colleen Paige, National Dog Day celebrates all breeds, mixed and pure and serves to help galvanize the public to recognize the number of dogs that need to be rescued each year, either from public shelters, rescues and pure breed rescues. National Dog Day honors family dogs and dogs that work selflessly to save lives, keep us safe and bring comfort. Dogs put their lives on the line every day - protecting our families and homes, for their law enforcement partner, for their blind companion, for the disabled, for our freedom and safety by detecting bombs and drugs and helping to locate and rescue victims of accidents and tragedy. (From https://www.nationaldogday.com/ )

Love dogs? So do we! National Dog Day is recognized worldwide on August 26th annually. We celebrate all dogs and encourage adoption.