Workshop July 21, 2017, 2pm-5pm
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If the opposite of addiction is connection, then both client and therapist must become more connectable. Yet addictive process can constellate powerful patterns between therapist and client, as if both become possessed by the same gods, psychic forces, which have played out in addiction. Unconsciously enacting these patterns leads both client and therapist to narrow their views of one another, their options for interaction, and their creativity in working together. But brought into conscious awareness, these dynamics can loosen and shift, becoming a vehicle for the heavy lifting involved in long-term freedom. We’ll make use of mythological stories, dreams, and experiential process to explore some frequently-recurring relational patterns in work with addiction and how we might restore therapeutic movement.
Jason Holley MA LPCC is a psychotherapist and astrologer in Santa Fe. He has worked with addicted clients and their therapists for the past decade, and developed the core curriculum of an internationally-recognized sex addiction treatment program. He has taught nationally on psychotherapy, mythology, astrology, and their creative integration in soulful healing work.
