NOTE: During this challenging time of the Covid19 pandemic, I am ONLY offering tele/video and phone sessions. Office Hours: Hours available in the evenings and weekends. Short-term and long-term options. Free 20 min initial phone consultation. Languages: English, Spanish, and Catalan.
Is the Bach Flower Therapy considered Psychotherapy?
Even though I bring my experience in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy to the field of Bach Flower Therapy, it is important for you to know that Bach Flower Therapy (BFT) isn't Psychotherapy. Indeed, BFT consultations are focused on the taking of the remedies and while these are taken, emphatic listening, helpful feedback and some counseling will be part of the services provided.
In order to assist my clients in further self-growth and healing, a therapeutic role is provided naturally and purposely in each session in relation to the content that brings each person to BFT treatment. Similarly to a Psychotherapy framework, a safe and therapeutic space is provided to explore the person's issues leading to BFT treatment. In this regard, confidentiality will be granted for the BFT treatment and consultations.
Different clients that are getting the benefits of BFT are already attending weekly Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, or ongoing Dream Analysis. At different occasions or for a series of sessions, they opt to have BFT consultations to work on specific issues with the flower remedies with the purpose of getting extra support and professional advice while taking the remedies.
What can I expect from the Bach Flower Therapy consultations?
The Bach Flower Therapy treatment and the sessions offered are always in agreement with each client on an individual basis. Consultations are sustained over time as needed, depending on the personal and individual needs of each person and depending on the duration of each particular treatment (e.g. consultations and treatment can be held for a minimum of 3 months up to 6 months or even up to a year long, depending on every individual case and how the treatment progresses).
During BFT treatment is recommended to have a check-in consultation one time or two times per month. However, it is relevant to notice that consultations are not usually held weekly or offered on an ongoing basis in the same way that it is set up in Psychotherapy. In any case, Bach Flower Therapy is a great ad-junction to Psychotherapy and complementary to any kind of medical and/or health treatment. Consultations can held weekly if needed but not in a long-term basis.
Our meetings, consultations or sessions will be considered and agreed with you based upon your needs and the hours that I will have available each time you/we decide to schedule an appointment. Depending on your availability along with the process of taking the remedies, you have the option to request as many consultations as you need.
In this sense, we will have the opportunity to decide together when you enroll to begin your treatment, and as we go as our sessions progress. In the course of treatment, in the case that you need more continued support and I could not provide this to you, an appropriate referral to another provider for more support will always be made .
Please, feel free to review the packages discount that could best fit your needs and feel free to contact me anytime. We will find out together what best treatment plan would work for you in your particular case.
What are some of the key aspects of Depth Psychotherapy?
An In-Depth Psychotherapy orientation considers that "change occurs through explaining and integrating material from both, unconscious and conscious levels of understanding; unconscious processes reflected in: dreams, images, symptoms, intuitions, other non-volitional experiences." Other keywords associated to this orientation are: shadow material, individuation, collective unconscious, archetypes, active imagination, psyche and soul, typology. This orientation in the field of Psychology is also characterized by the following premises:
- Establish a holding environment.
- Reparative experiences with the therapist.
- Emphasis in transference and countertransference.
- Promote insight and growth through interpretation.
- Increase self-awareness and inner wisdom.
- Choosing to think and act authentically and responsibly.
What are some benefits of exploring your dreams? (Optional)
I don't tell my clients what their dreams mean. I rather engage in conversation with them and together we uncover the possible themes and meanings that a dream can hold for them. Each client recognizes later what feels deeply meaningful to them. By this type of engagement, more understanding of the reality unfolding in their lives comes to surface.
The main goal of engaging together in this work is for you to see how much wisdom your dreams portray and for you to become more creative and fulfilled.
You may be able to resolve difficult conflicts and gain mental clarity and/or even improve your health (e.g. by reducing stress, work out primary fears, sleeping better, and in consequence improving relationships, feel more authentic, confident, etc.). My interest in empowering you to walk the path of self-knowledge is that you can discover the gift that a dream or a series of dreams can offer you and become more conscious, more whole and more integrated in your personality.
When you find resolution through Dream-work, you will gain consciousness by expanding your worldview and having more understanding of yourself. You will become more creative and awake. Your instinctive and vital energies will become more available to you and more at your disposal when a block that might be holding you back has been removed.
Please, know that any of the Dream-work sessions with me through BFT does not replace the support you might get from ongoing Psychotherapy but it can certainly be very beneficial if you are dedicated to do your inner-work or you need a consultation on a specific matter/s that can impact this inner-work.
You can read more about Dreams and Bach Flower Remedies here.
What can I expect if I want to explore my dreams while taking the remedies? (Optional)
In order to further assist more in-depth to my client's healing process, I offer the possibility to work with dreams when the remedies are taken. This option is also available in cases when you book a Dream Consultation to only work on a particular dream or series of dreams. In consequence, you will get an individualized BFT treatment to work specifically on the issues around that particular dream or other dreams related to the content of the issue that brought you to seek counsel.
In both cases, I provide with in-depth psychotherapeutic services through Dream Consultations. The treatment is open to being held in a more continued or intermittent basis, depending on "when" and "how many" dreams occur for each individual client and the degree of in-depth of work that is willing or needing to get accomplished. The meetings can be at demand as the dreams occur during the taking of the remedy formula.
In the case that I have no client available hours to assist you further with the degree of Dream-work consultations that you require, or in the case that your personal needs are greater than what BFT can offer you, a referral to a dream worker or psychotherapist that work with dreams will be made for you to get the professional help and the care you need.
In order to assist the work that is demanded per each person, a collaborative approach is required between both parties. It can happen that you start taking the remedies and you have a relevant dream. For this reason, it would be then a good chance to explore the dream and book a dream consultation or a series of consultations for doing more in-depth work.
Dream Consultations are at the same price as other consultations done at the Office, via Skype, and at Home/ or other arrangements. The same price and conditions apply when buying the consultations beforehand as a package discount. A Dream Consultation can be one of the sessions or several of the sessions included in the package that is bought from the beginning of service.
Please, be aware that a separate Dream Consultation can always be booked or solicited at any stage during the course of a treatment. Also, it is important for you to know, in order to facilitate your inner-work (journaling) it is give then option for you to send the dreams via email while you are in BFT treatment upon you signed proper form allowing this exchange. This form is provided at the beginning together with the Inform Consent to begin treatment.
Read more about "Dreams and Bach Flower Remedies" here.
BECAUSE OF MY PROFESSIONAL ORIENTATION IN DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY AND BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY, I HAVE CLIENTS THAT BRING THEIR DREAMS TO TREATMENT WHILE THEY ARE TAKING THE BACH FLOWER REMEDIES. FOR THIS REASON, I PROCEEDED TO OFFER DREAM CONSULTATIONS TO THIS THERAPY PRACTICE. IN THIS REGARD, I AM CONDUCTING A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ON THE BACH FLOWER REMEDIES IMPACTING IN THE PRODUCTION AND THE CONTENT OF THE DREAMS WHICH HELP TO FACILITATE MIND, BODY AND SOUL HEALING.
This website is intended as an informational and educational guide, not as a medical advice. The remedies, approaches, and the information described herein are meant to be complementary, and not to be a substitute for professional medical care or treatment. They should not be used to treat a serious ailment without prior consultation with a qualified health care professional. Please consult a medical or health professional if you have questions about your health.
FORMS TO BEGIN TREATMENT:
Please, download these forms below: You will save time in case that you want to read, print and sign before your appointment. You can bring these forms in person to your appointment or I will provide you with those in the office. In case that you booked your session via Skype/Phone or at your Home, please scan them and email them before your session.
1) Inform Consent Form for Bach Flower Therapy Treatment: (Available in English and Spanish)
Please, download these forms below: You will save time in case that you want to read, print and sign before your appointment. You can bring these forms in person to your appointment or I will provide you with those in the office. In case that you booked your session via Skype/Phone or at your Home, please scan them and email them before your session.
1) Inform Consent Form for Bach Flower Therapy Treatment: (Available in English and Spanish)
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2) Collaboration Form: Please, sign this form if you are currently seeing or receiving treatment from a Medical or Mental/Behavioral Health Provider and you want me to collaborate with them.
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