My Clinical Approach 咨询理念

Psychological problems happens when one is uncared, violated, neglected, oppressed, controlled, minimized, or traumatized. One can speak proper thoughts, behave appropriately, but the feelings reflect the most authentic inner experience. I believe that the first step of healing happens when one’s struggles is met with understanding, validation, and empathy. Thus, I start treatment with actively listening clients’ life stories and explore themes of emotions. I also believe that healing and change can only happen when a person is truly understood, empathized, and accepted. Throughout therapy, I emphasize creating those experience with clients and maintain a trusting and authentic therapeutic relationship as the foundations of therapy. 

I use humanistic approaches in my work, including Rogerian Person-Centered Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Existential Therapy. I also incorporate Psychodynamic theories, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in my conceptualization and technique selection. I consider myself a primarily humanist psychologist: I value understanding and recreating client’s subjective experience more than objective truth. In addition, I heavily use Emotion-Focused Therapy for guiding my conceptualization and techniques, including emotion reflection and evocation and empty chair and two chair techniques. 

当一个人不被照顾，被侵犯，忽视，压迫，控制，轻视，受到创伤的时候，心理问题会产生。一个人可以说出合适的想法，行为也适宜，但是他/她的感受往往反应了最真实的体验。我认为疗愈的第一步是当一个人的挣扎遇见理解，认可，和共情。在治疗的初期，我会积极的倾听来访者的人生故事和探索重复性的情绪主题。我相信疗愈和改变只有在被理解，共情和接纳的时候才能发生。在咨询过程中，我注重来访者在一个可以信任的真诚的关心中得到这些体验。

咨询中我使用人本主义疗法，包括罗杰斯人本主义理论，情绪聚焦疗法，格式塔理论，还有存在主义理论。我还会使用精神动力疗法，认知行为疗法，辩证行为疗法，还有接纳承诺疗法来概念化个案和选择治疗技巧。我把自己基本归类为一个人本主义心理学家，因为相比起外在的客观事实，我更加注重理解并且重新创造来访者的内心体验。我非常多的使用情绪聚焦疗法来指引我的个案概念化和治疗技术，包括情绪反映和唤起，双椅子技术，空椅子技术。