Well-Being and Creativity Life Couching

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With a Master's Degree in Clinical and Counseling Psychology and six years in psychodrama and psychoanalysis, I encountered people suffering a variety of clinical complaints among which: depression; post-traumatic stress; severe grief; sexual, intimacy, family, and relationships dysfunctions; anxiety and phobic neurosis; obsessional thoughts and compulsive actions; psychosomatic complaints that medicine cannot address adequately, and others.
My experience, however, made me realize that modern mental counceling, instead of serving the human being, tends to serve two idols: the idol of the past and the idol of the symptom. By doing so, it treats human beings in an exclusively reductionistic manner. Diagnosis, even though important for the clinicians, might have stigmatic effects on the patients by making them experience their past as a set of mistakes and their future -- as a set of impossibilities. Instead of reducing the suffering, diagnosis seems to add up suffering.
These realizations provoked me to integrate my psychological knowledge into a couching technique that addresses all the aspects of the complex human soul that counceling and medicine tend to neglect. In my technique, I approach humans not as patients, but rather as artists. Art is an outlet from passivity, it is future oriented, and most importantly -- art strives for perfection by working with imperfect materials. Art invites us to approach imperfections not as deficits, but as resources and building materials.

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