Full Circle Counseling Services, LLC
Julie Fischer, MSE, LPC, NCC
Feminist-Holistic Counseling at Full Circle vs. Traditional Therapy
Feminist-Holistic Counseling at Full Circle versus Traditional Psychotherapy Traditional psychotherapy: - Illness-based
- Anchored in the DSMIV-R (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition revised)
- Client symptoms indicate some degree of mental illness
- Effect on Client: client may feel less than, deficient, incapable or sick
Feminist-Holistic Counseling: - Wellness Based
- Client symptoms viewed as coping mechanisms and indicate an imbalance in life
- Effect on Client: client may feel hopeful, capable and more optimistic regarding improvement
________________________________________________________________________ Traditional Psychotherapy: - Psycho-Therapy = healing, treating, fixing of the psyche or mind
- Effect on Client: client relies heavily on outside expert for her/his psychological cure or treatment
Feminist-Holistic Counseling: - An interactive process in which growth and healing can occur
- Effect on Client: client is an essential part of her/his own growth process and journey toward wellness
______________________________________________________________________ Traditional Psychotherapy: - Therapist as “expert”; someone who treats or cures disease, creating and following a hierarchical model
- Effect on Client: increases the power imbalance and encourages client’s reliance on external answers and solutions
Feminist-Holistic Counseling: - Counselor as guide; someone involved in the mutual exchange of knowledge and ideas. The counselor works to decrease the inherent power imbalance between client and counselor; valuing client input and knowledge
- Effect on Client: power imbalance is decreased, client’s intuitive wisdom, authentic voice and ability to heal from within are highlighted
________________________________________________________________________ Traditional Psychotherapy: - Diagnosis is the most often the central component of therapy; it directs and determines the course of treatment
- Effect on Client: client is clinically labeled and classified, often compared to others with similar symptoms and treated accordingly
Feminist-Holistic Counseling: - Diagnosis is useful and sometimes essential, providing helpful information to both client and counselor. A trusting, honest, supportive client/counselor relationship is the most essential component of the counseling process…it becomes the cornerstone around which every other piece of the process fits
- Effect on Client: client feels safe, supported and heard as an individual with unique wants and needs within the counseling relationship
________________________________________________________________________ Traditional Psychotherapy: - Focuses on one or more counseling theory (Cognitive-Behavioral, brief therapy, etc.), dependent upon therapist preference
- Effect on Client: If therapist’s preferred counseling mode and methods are not a good match for client’s particular wants, needs or issues, the effectiveness of therapy is greatly diminished
Feminist-Holistic Counseling: - Explores the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of client’s life as well as societal and cultural influences impacting their issues
- Effect on client: client’s unique needs are met using a wide-angled wellness and cultural perspective, along with proven therapy techniques from many counseling theories, as needed for each client’s unique and individual issues
________________________________________________________________________ Traditional Psychotherapy - Practiced within the medical model system, utilizing a third party payment system (insurance companies/HMO’s)
- Effect on client: client has permanent diagnosis in medical records, personal information may need to be shared with HMO’s/insurance companies as required, insurance company controls much of the counseling process
Feminist-Holistic Counseling: - Practiced outside the medical-model system, offering fee-for-service as alternative payment option, eliminating third party (HMO’s/insurance companies) involvement or interference
- Effect on client: Client experiences no breech in confidentiality; no diagnosis in medical records, no disclosure of personal information to HMO’s/insurance companies, client maintains complete control of her/his own counseling process
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