Holistic Psychotherapy - Dr. Barbara R. Grace, Holistic Psychologist

Holistic Psychotherapy assists you in resolving various life problems using an integrated mind, body, emotion, and spirit approach which facilitates swift and powerful changes.

Your mind is a very powerful generator of ideas, thoughts, and plans and what you think creates your reality. Our beliefs generate our behavior, feelings, and the world around us. Dr. Grace helps clients to “rethink” what they want their world to look like and then change their behavior to create that new plan.

Body problems are created by stressful thoughts. And so we hear of people being so worried they develop ulcers, or someone being so sad that they develop depression. Stress comes from life pressures or life altering events that produce significant changes in body chemistry. These biochemical alterations lead to changes in the way our bodies function and often lead to a dis-ease process. Dr. Grace facilitates healing in the body by helping clients to change the thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors that develop the biochemical changes that produce the physical problem.

Our emotions and feelings are the guideposts which give us messages about what to do and what not to do. But often people’s past experiences, thoughts and belief systems cause them to develop strong inappropriate, subconscious reactions which keep them from attaining their desires in life. We can work to increase our positive feelings of joy, happiness and fulfillment so that our lives can feel positive and pleasant. But often we first need to work on eliminating the negative emotions of worry, hopelessness, and dissatisfaction in our lives that cause us to be in emotional, spiritual, or physical pain.

It is our spiritual belief system that is the overriding guide to how we view what is happening to us. Many people do not have a fully developed spiritual sense of who they are. Dr. Grace helps people explore their current spiritual belief system (which is different than your religious beliefs) and discover the “spiritual wisdom” that exists inside all of us. This process is often not included in traditional treatment approaches, but is frequently the key to helping a person develop a strong sense of serenity and peace in their life.

Dr. Grace uses mind, body, emotional and spiritual techniques. Some of those include: Psychotherapy, Couples Coaching, Parent Training, Heart Centered Hypnotherapy, Meditation, Relaxation, Guided Imagery, and Releasing Negative Emotions.