Josh Dempsey, Empowered Life Counselling

Approach Description: Utilizing techniques based in Gestalt, Bowen’s Family Systems Theory, Transpersonal Psychology, AEDP, Somatic, and Experiential Therapy, we will look to remove the “boulders” you find yourself challenged by that may have begun years prior as “pebbles”. Through Re-enactments, or dramatizations, of both past and current experiences, as well as Emotional Processing, we will look to uncover the origins of our thoughts and feelings, and the triggers that can cause disruption in relationship with self and others. Growing the tools for Self-Regulation in those moments, gives us opportunity to deepen our connections with the community and world around us. In conjunction with Gestalt, I also incorporate Bowen’s Family System Theory to allow us a broader view of the behavioral patterns that you may have been living by since childhood, without even being aware of them, or how they impacted who you were either meant to or have become. Through the Transpersonal perspective, we allow ourselves to see that all the experiences that brought us to this point, as learning and opportunity for self-love and connection. We are on a path where our human experience is only part of the spiritual journey, we find ourselves on.