You are a very unique person. Everyone is. There’s no single formula that can serve as a remedy for the masses. When it comes to overcoming mental and emotional issues a customized plan of treatment must be applied if a counselor is to help someone move beyond them.
Too often, conventional therapeutic approaches stick to a general formula when treating a patient. First an evaluation is made, then a diagnosis and then the required treatment, often involving medications. These are the right steps, but there should be something more personal about the process for it to work. Even if someone suffers from a text-book-diagnosable problem, the treatment should be customized for that individual and not merely prescribed like a generic product from an assembly line. And when counseling, the counselor will have to do a lot more than lead the client to realizations.
Realizations and meds can be very important and occasionally a required part of the process on the road to perfect health. However, they are not a panacea, or a “total” remedy.
Our emotional and psychological issues emerge from our subconscious mind. If they were coming from our conscious mind, we would have defeated the problem long ago, on our own. With our conscious mind, we understand that a way of thinking or behaving is negative or unhealthy. But a realization is never enough to stop the problem. What is needed are strategized and accessible methods we can adopt into our daily living to change the patterns and conditioning within the subconscious mind. It is for this reason that conventional therapeutic methods are so limited in their ability to permanently remove symptoms and issues. A blue or pink pill is not enough to do the job. A new perspective of the same problem is not enough either. We need to get to the root cause of the problem: the subconscious conditioning that is reinforcing the unwanted behavior, thinking or emotions.
Strategy focused solutions and hypnotherapy go directly to that root cause and allows us to recondition the mind for new, positive mind-sets; counseling and coaching draws from every available resource, including sociology, psychology, mentoring, management, counseling and even western and eastern philosophy, and goes beyond the text-book formula.
You are very unique. Your problems are also unique. You don’t need answers that are simply repeated from a training manual. You deserve unique and individual solutions that are as graceful and beautiful as your mind is.
Scott Spackey is a California Registered Addiction Specialist, Interventionist, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Life-Coach. For more information, please call 661-299-1966, email: Scott@Life-Mind.com and visit www.life-mind.com.