AFFILIATIONS:

It is important to recognize that affiliations are a matter of choice. Sandy is associated with a great many groups which provide ongoing updates regarding research findings, relevant studies, and colleagueality. Some are local, some are national and others are International. If you'd like, you may browse into the websites for some of the organizations. Feel free to do that and know you can come "BACK" with your button at the upper left of the screen.

MODALITIES:

Psychotherapy is accomplished in a variety of modalities. INDIVIDUAL therapy often helps to contain a crisis, identify feelings, enhance awareness, promote personal responsibility and change, and helps to resolve unfinished business. RELATIONSHIP therapy can enhance communication skills, resolve conflict, identify common goals, promote healthy boundaries and teach negotiation. FAMILY therapy helps when identifying the workings of the "system" which operates to keep the family from changing to a new style, and helps the individuals within the system to learn respect and empathy as they find they can get their needs met in a new way. GROUP Therapy provides an atmosphere of commonality in a dynamic setting of exploration in which members benefit from their own and others' contributions. Sandy has facilitated therapy groups for Incest Survivors, Adult Children of Alcoholics, and Adults Who Were Molested As Children. She has also provided Growth Groups for Creative Individuals.

METHODOLOGY:

The therapeutic alliance which is created between the client and the therapist is the primary dynamic which stimulates the healing process. Feeling confident to talk about important issues occurs after the trust is built. For some, the talking itself is the key to healing. Knowing you are valued in the context of your life story encourages the freedom to explore more difficult areas.

For some, additional creative healing methods may be helpful. Sandy's background in the art world provides for a variety of creative aspects to be employed. These may include: working with clay, creative imagery, non-verbal dialoging, emotional and relational sculpting, or journaling.

Dreamwork can be a powerful tool to finding the internal ally. Sandy has been working with dream imagery for more than twenty years and has found that great wisdom and insight can come from the smallest fragment of a dream as well as the most horrific of recurring nightmares. Her philosophy holds that dreams are a method by which the subconscious delivers "benevolently-intentioned" information. In working with dreams in the psychotherapeutic setting, a wisdom is honored which can help to promote lasting positive change.

A non-traditional sandtray is available for the externalizing of personal themes. It can be a powerful tool in the therapeutic process when a client "sees" for the first time the dilemma which surrounds them in their everyday life. Because this is a changeable medium, there is empowerment when one sees and accomplishes the resolution of the challenge in the sandtray, and can then imagine it accomplished in their life as well.

Psychotherapy is a rich and complex process. The client has the responsibility and capability to accomplish change. The therapist accompanies the client on the journey to wholeness. Sandy Ginsberg would be honored to "Help you find yourself the way you want to be." Please feel welcomed to contact her with your questions and comments if you believe she can be of help. The link to her e-mail is on page one of this website.