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“When you decide to participate in the process of psychotherapy you chart a course for your own well being. Sometimes you successfully navigate into blue skies and steady winds. At other times, the fog is so thick you inch your way forward, hoping--praying that you will remain on course. Whether the day is hard, or easy, you continually learn, grow and achieve your goals.”
WORKING TOGETHER
“Judy Martin has worked with adults, couples and children for thirty years. In addition to her academic and professional expertise, 20 years of meditation practice informs her work. Many of the problems which bring Judy's clients to therapy are survival-based reactions to unhealthy early childhood relationships. Empowered within the safe, empathic, therapeutic relationship she creates, clients develop capacity to see these haunting behaviors for what they are--habits--learned, reinforced, practiced behaviors. As old habits weaken and die new habits can emerge and become second nature. When this occurs, life can be filled with more joy and satisfaction.
Judy is well versed in a wide variety of researched and effective techniques and methods that accelerate progress and help to create lasting change. They include EMDR, cognitive behavioral therapy, systematic desensitization, stress reduction, and mindfulness practices. Such resources help to create a total change: physically, emotionally, cognitively, and behaviorally.
Calling upon her personal and professional experience with troubled teenagers, Judy authored: "Wake Up Call" and www.jmartinmft.com/troubled. She has a special passion for working with adolescents and their families. Skillfully utilizing advanced training in EMDR, hypnosis, and body centered therapy, Judy facilitates profound client recovery from trauma. "
~Helene Roos, Psy.D.
HDA Consulting
AN OVERVIEW
Within the first sessions clients describe the issues that brought them to therapy. The use of breath, mindfulness and body oriented therapy help clients clarify the nature and origin of their problem. During the middle phase, a full picture of early trauma, old habits and beliefs is pieced together. Mindfulness, guided imagery, and relaxation techniques are particularly effective at this stage. As symptoms lose their charge, perceptions change. Simultaneously (and often spontaneously), new patterns are learned. Cognitive behavioral therapy is very effective at this stage. Rehearsal within the office setting and through carefully tailored homework assignments help newly rooting behaviors become lasting change.
GETTING STARTED
The initial phone session helps clients determine whether or not sufficient rapport exists to schedule a first face-to-face session. By the end of the first therapy appointment clients can answer two important questions: Do I feel comfortable, safe and trusting? Is Judy Martin’s approach to therapy effective for me? A therapeutic approach that works for one person may not work for another. You are not charged for the initial appointment unless you are confident you Judy Martin are the right therapist for you.
THE HELP YOU RECEIVE
During the past 30 years Judy Martin has encountered and treated a widely diverse population of individuals, families, couples, and children. She is well versed in a wide variety of well-researched and effective techniques and methods that accelerate progress and help to create lasting change. They include; EMDR, cognitive behavioral therapy, systematic desensitization, stress reduction and mindfulness practices. Such resources help to create a total change; physically, emotionally, cognitively and behaviorally
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RESOURCES USED IN THERAPY
Body Centered Therapy
BODY CENTERED THERAPY, developed by Dr Gay and Kathleen Hendricks of the HENDRICKS INSTITUTE, teaches clinicians to become keen observers of non-verbal cues -- body movement, voice intonation, breathing changes, postural shifts. Most people come to therapy having tried their best to resolve the issue at hand. They have not succeeded because they either aren’t seeing the full “picture” or, the emotional charge makes it exceedingly difficult to approach the problem.
Body Centered Therapy can be compared to renovating a house: Beneath the paint, you discover a layer of sheetrock. Behind that sheetrock, you rediscover the original solid oak walls. A client's story usually focuses on the sheetrock. Body centered therapy goes beneath and discovers the oak.
For more information on Body Centered Therapy follow this link:
http://www.experiencefestival.com/body-centered_psychotherapy
EMDR Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
During REM sleep the eyes move back and forth? During this stage of sleep, the emotional component of a dream is being processed. EMDR works very much like a dream state. While remembering the thoughts, feelings, images and sensations of a highly charged, often traumatic situation, the movement of the eyes unlocks and releases shock that has been stored in the nervous system.
A state of shock can develop, if, under psychologically or physically threatening circumstances, you can neither fight nor flee. When shock is released, you feel genuinely different. A real change occurs. And most important, you are freed of the limiting effects of the old event and you can truly move into the present moment. This highly researched procedure has helped thousands of victims of natural and man-made disasters heal. Like clearing a log from a river, your energy, free of past obstacles, can flow easefully and joyfully.
For more information on EMDR follow this link:
www.emdr.com/brfdes.htm
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Emphasizes the important role of thinking in our emotions and behaviors. Cognitive behavioral therapists teach that, when our brains are healthy, it is our thinking that causes us to feel and act the way we do. Therefore, if we are experiencing unwanted feelings and behaviors, it is important to identify the thinking that is causing the feelings / behaviors and to learn how to replace this thinking with thoughts that lead to more desirable reactions. Cognitive behavioral therapies have the following characteristics:
CBT is based on the Cognitive Model of Emotional Response. It is a collaborative effort between the therapist and the client. Cognitive behavioral therapists learn what their clients want out of life (their goals) and then help clients achieve those goals. CBT is structured and directive and focuses on helping the client achieve the goals they have set. CBT is based on an educational model based on the scientifically supported assumption that most emotional and behavioral reactions are learned. Therefore, the goal of therapy is to help clients unlearn their unwanted reactions and to learn a new way of reacting.
The educational emphasis of CBT has an additional benefit -- it leads to long term results. When people understand how and why they are doing well they can continue doing what they are doing to make themselves well. Homework is a central feature of CBT. Goal achievement (if obtained) could take a very long time if all a person was only to think about the techniques and topics taught for one hour per week. That's why CBT therapists assign reading assignments and encourage their clients to practice the skills learned during the therapy hour.
Excerpted from an article by NACBT online.
For more information on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy follow this link:
www.cognitivetherapy.com/basics.html
Mindfulness
“ Mindfulness is being present, or having Presence. Presence is that quintessential quality of awareness and being that creates peak experiences in living. Mindfulness practice is based on the premise that only in the experience of the present moment can one accurately perceive what is really happening, when life is fully appreciated without the need to judge it, and when effective action can be taken.
The practice of mindfulness means learning to trust direct experience. It is building trust in small morsels one moment at a time. Mindfulness practice requires patience and willingness to observe and describe what is happening without bias. It is genuine participation without self-consciousness. It is throwing oneself into the moment and gleaning wisdom through the trial-and error of learning by direct experience.
However, the practice of mindfulness is not in competition with living the demands of everyday life. Mindfulness practice is living life now and living it effectively. It is the observing, describing and participating in direct experience non-judgmentally and one-mindfully while simultaneously interacting with daily life activities and relationships.”
Excerpts of an article by Bob Sanfilippo and Diana Brown
For more information on Mindfulness follow this link:
http://mentalhealth.about.com/cs/mindandbody
www.tahoeinstitute.com
Stress Reduction
Stress is the sum of the biological reactions to any adverse stimulus, physical, mental or emotional, internal or external, that tends to disturb the organisms homeostasis, should these compensating reactions be inadequate or inappropriate, they may lead to disorders. The term is also used to refer to the stimuli that elicit the reactions.
Judy Martin employs a holistic approach to stress reductions which can include all or any of the following resources:
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Visualization and Guided Imagery
Breathing Exercises
Keeping a stress journal
Learning to ask “tension deflating questions”
Managing time by setting priorities
Understanding the impact of diet and exercise on stress and making life style changes that incorporate this knowledge.
Forming or sustaining a network of good friends that you can both confide in and laugh at life with.
Spending time outdoors several times a week enjoying fresh air and sunshine, the beauty of nature and mobilizing the joints.
Find a spiritual practice that suits you (yoga, meditation, prayer, church or synagogue)
Laugh. The physical and emotional benefits of laughter are immense. Take laughter breaks.
For more information on stress reduction follow this link: www.mindtools.com/smpage.html
Take time to laugh! (One good belly laugh and our mood and overall view of life changes. Laughter is an amazing source of stress reduction.)
Clancy went into a pub an ordered a beer. He drank half, and then threw the rest at the bartender. Clancy apologized, explaining it was a compulsion he'd had for years that embarrassed him terribly.
The barkeeper told him to see a psychiatrist and warned him to not come back until he had done do. A few months later, Clancy entered the bar and ordered a brew. He drank half and threw the rest all over the bartender.
"I told you to not come back here until you'd seen a shrink about your compulsion!" the bartender yelled.
"I have been seeing one," replied Clancy indignantly.
"Well, it hasn't done any good," roared the dripping bartender.
"Yes, it has," said Clancy. "I'm not embarrassed about it anymore."
ISSUES THAT BRING CLIENTS TO THERAPY:
The following definitions are from the “Online Medical Dictionary. Click the link that says, “More information.”
Phobias:
A persistent , irrational , intense fear of a specific object, activity or situation (the phobic stimulus), fear that is recognized as being excessive or unreasonable by the individual himself.
The phobias Judy Martin has worked most with include: agoraphobia, social phobia, and phobias related to driving and flying
More information:
www.nmh/anxietydisorders
posttraumatic stress disorder:
Development of characteristic symptoms following a psychologically traumatic event that is generally outside the range of usual human experience ; symptoms include numbed responsiveness
More information:
www.ncptsd.org
Eating disorders:
A group of disorders characterized by physiological and psychological disturbances in appetite or food intake.
More information:
www.nationaleatingdisorders.org
Anxiety:
The unpleasant emotional state consisting of psycho physiological responses to anticipation of unreal or imagined danger, ostensibly resulting from unrecognized intrapsychic conflict .
Physiological concomitants include increased heart rate, altered respiration rate, sweating, trembling, weakness and fatigue, psychological concomitants include feelings of impending danger, powerlessness, apprehension and tension .
More information:
http://holisticonline.com/Remedies/Anxiety/anx_introduction.htm
Depression::
< psychiatry> A mental state of depressed mood characterized by feelings of sadness, despair and discouragement. Depression ranges from normal feelings of the blues through dysthymia to major depression .
It in many ways resembles the grief and mourning that follow bereavement, there are often feelings of low self esteem, guilt and self reproach, withdrawal from interpersonal contact and somatic symptoms such as eating and sleep disturbances .
More information:
www.depression.com
www.holistic/online.com/depression
Relationship Difficulty
has many facesaffairs, lost passion, divorce, difficulty co-parenting, stored up resentment and are but a few of the problems that bring couples to the therapy office. Love is potent medicine. The loss of love is a bitter pill to swallow. Whenever the couple willingly takes responsibility for her/her contribution to the relationship “breakdown,” miracles happen.
More information:
http://www.counsel.ufl.edu//selfHelp/relationshipProblems.asp
INFORMATIVE AND INSPIRATIONAL WRITINGS
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CONFIDENTIALITY
That which is discussed during the therapy hour remains confidential with a few important exceptions:
When clients present a danger to themselves or someone else.
When either a child or elder adult is (or is at risk of) being physically, emotionally or sexually abused.
Under such circumstances it is an ethical obligation of all licensed therapists to prioritize safety over confidentiality.
FEES FOR SERVICE
With the exception of billing insurance carriers for reimbursement, fees for therapy are paid by check or cash on the same day that service is provided.
MAKING CONTACT
To seek additional information or schedule an appointment please call or send an email to Judy Martin:
Call (415) 242-5946
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