Is a divorce or loss of a loved one causing emotional harm and leaving you feeling threatened or frightened? Is an unexpected career change causing stress and anxiety? Are you having difficulty coping with loss or a traumatic event, such as a severe injury or illness?
Losing a loved one, recovering from cancer or serious illness, loss of a job, or suffering a loss of any kind can find us beyond our human coping mechanism. Recognizing the grief process and the importance of being able to say good-bye to the future we once envisioned, to the pain, hurt and anger that has taken a permanent residence in our hearts is essential. When you come to grief counseling in the East Valley with Dr. Collins, you will learn loss coping techniques and working through the stages of grief will help answer all the questions and begin to put together a plan for new beginnings.
Knowing you are not alone and have a supportive and healing environment to sort out your emotions will accelerate the healing process. With the loss coping and grief counseling at my East Valley office to help with the trauma and Guided Imagery and Visualization exercises to help you heal and begin to start over with a new life script.
What is Guided Imagery?
For centuries, the use of visualization, meditation or guided imagery has been honored as a major technique in healing the body, relaxation and maintaining good health. Visualization or imagery is the thought process that involves an inner, mental picture, usually using all the senses which involve vision as well as hearing, smell, touch, taste, position and movement.
The brain cannot distinguish between what is real and what is imagined. Consequently, imagery can be a powerful tool in physically healing, using all the chemicals naturally found in the body. Further, imagery can be an incredible journey of relaxing emotional baggage from our past, coping with the loss of a loved one, the memory of a trauma, eliminating stress or even removing an addiction.
Altering or changing an image within our mind positively alters our expectations and perception of disease, a depression or disability that may affect us. The positive images we perceive have a powerful and fundamental impact on our physical body down to the tissue and even individual molecules and cells.
Give me a call at my East Valley grief counseling office at 480-498-0233 to discuss your unique situation or fill out the appointment request on this page. I look forward to working with you.
