Post-Traumatic Growth Coaching

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• In 5 confidential Zoom sessions (60- minutes each) clients are provided with post-traumatic relational and emotional support through collaborative PLE; this includes psycho-education on the dynamic integration of therapeutic lyric writing (and clients' shared favorite music) with an introduction to the healing emotion sciences which, together, offer powerful support for personal and spiritual growth.
• If you or someone you know has become more isolated after trauma exposure (showing relational and emotional disengagement) you are not alone! Dr. Peterson has been trained in several top-tier modalities (as an EMDRIA-approved therapist), but does not limit his work with clients to any single 'formula'. Many clients recovering from trauma benefit from multiple treatment approaches and have found their healing journeys enhanced by adding devotional psalmody or lyric therapy (a strengths-based social and emotional supportive practice). 
• During this process, clients are free to express their lyrical (or 'rhetorical') self in ways that are freeing emotionally and spiritually. Clients' social-emotional engagement is thus gradually enhanced through five sessions using creative methods of lyric writing (including shared music experience, song interpretation, emotional integration of song themes, expressing original lyrics, or other activities).
• The last session focuses on a 'Poetics of Self' which develops clients' lyrics/works, insights, and inspirations into living metaphors that continue to affirm each client's 'sense of self' for the ongoing post-traumatic growth journey.

We could call primary emotions the music of the mind. The process of creating and listening to music is a form of  emotional experience and affective communication that is profoundly integrative.

                                                 -- Daniel J. Siegel, The Developing Mind (3rd ed.), 2020  

While the prices for services are listed on the website's next page,  Dr. Peterson does have occasional timeslots open for sliding-scale lower-income clients and those experiencing temporary financial setbacks to make PsyConsulting affordable. If you would like more information on sliding-scale fees let us know.