ARCTURUS COUNSELING AND THERAPIES

CBT is a traditional "talk therapy,” considered by many therapists to be the gold standard in counseling as it has been the most researched method known today. CBT is “talk therapy” that helps you change unhelpful or unwanted thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in a relatively brief manner, one issue at a time. 

Therapy with expressive arts has been shown to change the functions in the brain and remap neurological pathways allowing for healing and positive change. It can do this with a range of activities that on one end of the spectrum allow a person’s thoughts and feelings flow, and on the other, gives them greater control.

Therapy with mindfulness involves integrating ancient wisdom with contemporary practices in ways that give individuals access to the parasympathetic nervous system, which allows for healing and well-ness while also calming the internal system and helping individuals be grounded in the present moment, with less fear about the future or sadness about the past.

Therapy work with literature, poetry, and writing involves talking, writing, and reading about poetry, and literature, but also stories, films, videos, and prose (fiction or nonfiction). With it, we explore and increase the understanding of the self and others in relation to all of humanity, we enlarge our orientation to and sense of reality, we enlighten our personal relationships, and we add spark to the senses and imagination through attunement with visual, verbal, or performative stimulation.