Holistic Jungian therapist specializing in trauma and relationships
I am a clinical counselor, specializing in trauma and addiction. I have 25 years of experience working with clients struggling with depression, anxiety, relationship problems, verbal/emotional/physical/sexual abuse, and psychotic disorders.
My approach mirrors that of Thomas Szasz, MD, as he wrote in The Healing Word: Its Past, Present, and Future:
“Mental illness and psychotherapy are fictions. Neither exists. Only the patient, the therapist, and a particular relationship between them exist. Both participants are responsible moral agents. Each is existentially equal to the other, each influences the other, and each is responsible for his or her behavior. The therapist can neither cure the patient not make him or her sick. However, the patient can do both of these things — for or to himself or herself– by making use of the therapist’s helping or harming
words (Bohart & Talman, 1996).” … The expert’s role is to engage the clients in a process of searching self-examination, with the aim of enabling them, if they so choose, to become more free and more responsible.
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Nicole Neal is a clinical counselor practicing in New Mexico who focuses on trauma and addiction. She has 24 years of experience working with people coping with depression, anxiety, relationship problems, and a range of abuse experiences including verbal, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, as well as psychotic disorders.
Her work covers a broad array of concerns such as stress, addictions, grief, bipolar disorder, ADHD, eating and sleeping disorders, parenting and family conflicts, intimacy-related issues, anger management, self-esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, coaching, and compassion fatigue.
Nicole is a licensed professional clinical counselor in New Mexico, holding the credential identifier CCMH0085381, which indicates her state licensure as a clinical counselor.
Her therapeutic stance is informed by the perspective of Thomas Szasz, who emphasized that mental illness and psychotherapy can be viewed as constructs and that the central element in care is the particular relationship between patient and therapist. Nicole approaches therapy as a collaborative process in which both people are active, moral agents who influence one another.
In practice, Nicole sees the expert role as engaging clients in careful self-examination with the aim of helping them, if they choose, to increase personal freedom and responsibility. She focuses on supporting clients through exploration and change rather than promising cures.
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