Framework for

Alternative Dispute Resolution &

Collaborative Practice

Target Clients Appropriate for Referral:

- Business professionals, parents or children with stress related symptoms that impair communication.

- Difficulty being present, speaking or expressing.

- Disorganized thoughts.

- Emotions are numb, disconnected, intense, disorganized.

 - Adults or children with illness or pain conditions:

- Skin conditions

- Immune system

- Digestive

- Respiratory

- Heart

- Family history of illness, and/or generational stress or trauma.

My Framework

- Coaching model

- Somatics, communication, massage

- Adults expressing childhood stress and trauma patterns

- Below Language

- Profound stress at skin, touch, intimacy physiology.

- Organize and calm at this layer.

- Hands on therapy with adults and children.

- Primary stress physiology?

- Are clients burnt out?

- Stress impaired communication and relationship.

- Attachment based stress responses.

- Trauma regulation model.

Goals

- Empower expression.

- Organize and ground expression.

- Access feelings – be present.

- Deep emotional regulation.

- Increase the functional capacity to communicate.

- Profound physiology layers.

- Help take the stress out of the system.

- Elaborate stress and trauma model.

- Stress and communication.

- Reduce stress related illness.

- Clear old trauma tangentially related to current partner issues.

Tactics

- Educate

- Develop embodied mind, communication and relationship skills

- Strengthen Regulatory capacity.

- Calm still point in the center of a storm.

- Self engagement and showing up:

- The anxious state is easier easier.

- The withdrawl/collapse states ismore difficult to identify and repair.

- Dorsal Vegal Complex – address deep emotional and physical issues of lower body physiology, lower spine, that many therapists are untrained for and uncomfortable with.

- Functional capacity

- Generate emotions, resourcefulness, perceptions.

- Generate calm and safety, compassion.

- Body based emotions

- Stress in skin, touch, attachment, intimacy, proximity physiology.

- Clarity of ‘I’ – present moment.

- Develop daily practice.

Approach

- High Trust

- Non-authoritative

- Inquiry and coaching oriented

- Find internal answers and empower

My Clients

- Stress related issues, effecting communication, job, health and relationship.

- High stress business professionals

- Relationship stress

- Stressed Families

- Women – 2/3 of my client base

- Marriage & Family Therapist as clients