I like to create a nurturing environment, a nest where you can transform whatever keeps you from living the life you want to live.  I try to be as efficient as possible.

Thus, I create a unique treatment approach to match each person's needs. I am careful to not make assumptions and instead I attempt to understand each person's meanings on deeper and deeper levels. Whenever possible I am experiential in my approach so that clients can have corrective emotional experiences. I can utilize a range of techniques including: Supportive and Directive Talk therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness,  Couples Therapy,  Coherence Therapy, Play Therapy, NLP,  Expressive Arts Therapy and EMDR.

As I listen to and experience the stories of my clients, I work to seek out their resources. I look for examples of how individuals have achieved mastery over tough tasks. Anybody who has learned how to walk, talk, drive... has mastered what can seem like impossible tasks. I find that clients often have experienced exceptions to the symptoms that they bring into therapy. I work with clients to discover these exceptions and to reinforce their personal power and mastery.

Do you want to perform better, in sports, in public speaking, in other aspects of your life?  I can help you with performance enhancement protocols.  After you reprocess and desensitize past challenges with performance.  I work with you to create a future template in which you are clear of all emotional obstacles and are completely in touch with positive rational beliefs about yourself.  From there you perform in the outside world and we work together to fine tune your performance even more.

Efficiency is important to me.  In general I work with people once a week for 50 -90 minutes.  Sometimes it does take 90 minutes to complete a transformative process like EMDR.  Some people can take longer breaks between sessions and make efficient progress on their goals.  Some people come in and complete their goals in a couple of sessions and others engage in long term therapy use the therapeutic relationship with me to change maladaptive patterns.

This is a snapshot of what I do. To learn more you can phone me at 831 460-0241, or you can email me at andrew@uncomfortableisgood.com                       

© 2009 Andrew Purchin, LCSW