I do what I can.
dance therapy
Without the freedom of expression, many abused, traumatized and unwanted children go without the necessary methods to communicate their needs. I integrate dance movements and choreography to connect with parts that may be expressing discomfort, pain or dysfunction because they seek relief. Somatic healing and Craniosacral Therapy (CST) utilize gentle touch as an integral way to connect with the sensations that may be stemming from historical trauma. Daily meditation practices used to acknowledge pained parts, can help restore brain passageways that over-fire so they can relax. Once acceptance of these parts lends to understanding, creativity and courage can be exchanged for side effects that once suppressed the system.
Grief Counseling
Sometimes the loss of a relationship through break-up or estrangement can be worse then death, especially for children adopted because “somewhere out-there”, is a parent they do not know. Knowing another is key because we each have the longing at conception to be known and loved. Loss of any kind can be addressed through role play, journaling and somatic embodiment that will meet the clients need for healthy touch and connectedness. Should IFS be welcomed, that is always an additional practice to utilize as well.
write to heal parts
Writing has a way of luring the client into cognitive understanding that could change ones life forever. Journaling in the moment of stress can become ones strongest attribute when communicating love to SELF that has been lost through suffering in relationships. At the crux of journaling is the search for significance that we each seek as humans on a spiritual quest for fulfillment. Writing from each parts perspective will connect to SELF awareness and compassion that can integrate the whole internal family system. Prompts for introspection are given for work outside of session.
Enneagram Personality Profiling
What is the point of taking a personality test without acknowledging that flaws and strengths may be imbalanced? To transform knowledge into spirituality is to sustain all heart matters. The mind, body soul connection relies heavily on empowerment through emotion to heal a negative brain passageway once challenge is accepted to do so. Profiling of personality before IFS Therapy and after 6 months of sessions will prove just how genious God was in creating the brain to heal thyself of character defects and physical ailments.
An emotional teaching perspective (etp)
They say how you do anything is how do you do everything, and I concur. Working with autistic children and researching behavioral connection has offered me psychological understanding for why people do what they do, and the ability to advocate for change we all seek. I have forged an Emotional Teaching Perspective that is founded on personal empowerment through re-introduction of childhood needs to direct the course of one's life through a new pathway. This modality incorporates talk therapy, CBT and Art Therapy for visual connection to emotional parts.
theophostic prayer ministry
The similarities between IFS Therapy and Theophostic Prayer Ministry are so profound that Christians adopt verbiage of “parts” much quicker when the expectation is for each emotion to “see the light” and lay down its negative role. The great exchange of “bad behavior” to mercy and grace is a concept of scripture that applies to the deep inward parts that may be holding onto the past. When these parts have a “coming to Jesus moment” they release the burden anchored in history and take on their God-given job within the system. This process of transformation removes stigma of judgment and performance parts that keep reminding the person of sin, hence religious routines can dissipate.
Inner healing for Christians Religious parts
Accessible to remote locations, Angela Andrews counsels, teaches and speaks from a place of passion to heal her heart and those of her audiences. With just the stroke of a pen on paper or a recording from a hand held device, she captures the emotion of circumstances that befall us all. Whether you're a psychological institution seeking an empathetic edge, a motivated person on a quest toward expression or a business wanting to spiritually connect your team, Ms. Andrews can write your story of any length or add a word that will capture your ideal vision for the best communication. Satisfying curiosity with whit, her counseling and comedic skills can elevate the most common of messages to a profound story that will be seared in the memories of all who grasp the strategy of deep connection.
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Public speaking
Having an understanding of crisis, behavioral upsets, childhood trauma, abuse, chronic pain and psychosomatic disorders will greatly define the dynamic of dysfunctional order. If relationships to parent, therapist, co-workers or any form of connection understands the survival tactics of human interaction, it is founded on codependency. Educating professionals, clergy and counselors about the craftiness of codependent structures, I speak about the foundational rifts in the family of origin that build codependent communities in society based upon their painful pasts that have been denied. When I break down cultural mindsets that revolve around lack, poverty, fear and generational cycles, I can highlight measures that bring individuals into truth that catapult their own interdependence without shame for exercising boundaries with others. I address many topics tapping into the human psyche that needs a foundational premise on faith and how everything which flows through it can find inner healing.
Storytelling
Sharing testimonies of lost and found dreams through recovery from complex trauma, is what I do. The creative journey of healing through writing and storytelling can be spiritual surgery and the anecdote all at the same time. The challenge in sharing intimate stories is the level of transparency that set the captives free who hear it, but only if their parts are ready to receive it. I use my empathetic edge built upon psychological experience and study to influence individual thought outside of the group-think. I direct all of my clients to journal their healing process in a way that re-tells their story. Words have a way of painting a picture so why not be as abstract and imaginative as possible? To set yourself apart as an innovator means that you partake in different communicative styles that speak to vast audiences. I capture emotion that meets the passion of the audience to think deeply on matters of the heart. That means, all that I can pen on paper, becomes a baseline for everyone’s story to be understood.
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IFS Therapy Practitioner, Abuse and Trauma Therapist, Pastoral Counselor, Dance Therapist