ABOUT JEFFREY MORRISON, MA, LMHC:
I practice psychotherapy in West Seattle and on and am currently accepting new clients! I also offer a Focusing Training Program to therapists and healing professionals who want to learn this remarkable somatic approach to therapy and healing. Focusing is especially effective in treating trauma. FOCUSING:
I am extremely passionate about a well-researched process called Focusing - a somatically-oriented self-healing practice that produces organic, lasting change. I personally practice and benefit from Focusing, and I have witnessed my clients overcome seemingly insurmountable hurdles, reaching beyond the places they originally felt stuck, and find new paths to freedom and happiness in their lives. When appropriate, I incorporate Focusing in my therapy practice. I also offer a Focusing Training Program for therapists and healing professionals who want to enhance their practice with Focusing. Learn more about my Focusing Training Program:
http://morrisontherapy.com/focusing-training-program/
THERAPY:
Everyone begins therapy with a problem or a sense that something is not right in their lives. Each of us would like to find a way to live a more accepting, fulfilling, and inspired life. In our work together, I will show you how to begin to develop empathy and compassion for what in you feels stuck or painful. Learn more about My Therapy Practice:
http://morrisontherapy.com/therapy/
What makes my work unique is that I teach you to turn toward what is uncomfortable in a way that is safe and friendly. You’ll feel a radical acceptance of what you have previously pushed aside or locked away, and you’ll feel those very issues leading you in the direction of growth and change. I work with teens, adults, individuals, couples, and families with these and other issues:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Grief and Loss
- Trauma
- Relationship Issues
- Conflict
- Stress
- Self Esteem
- Body Image
FOCUSING TRAINING PROGRAM:
Focusing is a somatically-based therapeutic skill that can add tremendous value to the lives and livelihoods of therapists and healing professionals. It points toward a new awareness where real change happens! Focusing has proven successful over decades of development and is supported by cutting edge neuroscience. Focusing goes beyond simply being with sensations. It helps you become present to and interact with your bodily sensed experience in ways that allow your stuck places and trauma to unwind and heal.
--Training Program Schedule--
My Focusing Training Program includes 8 weekend workshops over two years. The first year introduces Focusing for Therapy & Healing. The second year addresses Focusing for Complex Trauma. Workshops are held in my private studio on Vashon island, surrounded by forest and sea. Therapists earn 10 CEUs for each Focusing workshop. Read a full description of my Focusing Training Program via the link below. Next year's program begins this fall! http://morrisontherapy.com/focusing-training-program/
--Personal Benefits--
Focusing offers a safe, powerful, and supportive process that will enable you to:
- Turn to your body as an ally and friend.
- Trust what you know.
- Quiet self-criticism and activate your capacity for inner guidance.
- Change and improve your relationship with yourself and others.
- Keep company with all your feelings, without fear of being overwhelmed or hijacked by them.
- Reduce the effects of stress on the body and in your work and personal life.
- Improve communication, self-confidence, and self-esteem.
- Help you make good decisions and strengthen your creative work.
- Understand what you truly feel and want.
- Surmount obstacles, make decisions, and solve problems creatively.
- Find relief from tension and chronic pain.
- Deepen and increase the effectiveness of counseling and psychotherapy.
--Professional Benefits--
Therapists and other healing professionals will discover how to:
- Help clients become present to their experience so they can observe and interact with it.
- Identify different client processes such as being blocked, self-criticism, indecision and what to do with each.
- Help clients regain a sense of trust in their bodies so they know what they feel and want.
- Work effectively with eating and dieting.
- Learn to sense and use your own ‘felt senses’ in sessions to move therapy along.
- Discover how Focusing helps you ally with your clients so the therapeutic relationship deepens.
- Listen in ways that help clients open up about “seemingly” unrelated issues.
- Learn how to keep clients from feeling overwhelmed or shutting down.
- Learn how to work safely with complex trauma so that it unwinds and resolves.
- Discover how much easier it is to work in a way in which clients naturally take control of the session and make change steps more smoothly.
- Enjoy the benefits of working long term with clients for deep, lasting change. CONTACT:
Interested in exploring therapy or Focusing training with me? Feel free to get in touch. I'm happy to offer a free half-hour session to see if my services may be a good fit for you. Phone: 206-935-7850
Email: jeffrey@morrisontherapy.com
