You Can’t Think Your Way Out of a Reflex
If understanding your problem was enough to solve it, you’d be done by now. Anxiety, trauma, and psychosomatic symptoms don’t respond to logic. My work is to help you change those reflexes. I use targeted clinical strategies to help you rewrite these unconscious patterns.
Let’s get this sorted out.
Shlomo Vaknin, C.Ht
Notes from a therapist
Therapy sessions are private, but the patterns we discover there are universal. I share the private thoughts and insights I recognize in myself, and in my work, so you can discover some in your own life. It’s the best way to get to know how I think before we ever meet.
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What I Know
To Be True.
Your Brain is Incredible.
Neuroscience shows that your unconscious initiates an action up to 500 milliseconds before your conscious mind is even aware of it. You cannot out-think a reflex that has already happened.
The Harder You Try, The Worse It Gets.
Willpower creates internal tension. To your nervous system, tension confirms that a threat is real. By fighting the symptom, you aren't stopping it; you are simply confirming that the threat is real.
Don't Think of a Pink Elephant.
You just pictured one. Why? Because to tell your brain what not to do, you must first load the image of the thing itself. Trying to suppress a pattern doesn't delete it; instead, it highlights it.
You are not your diagnosis.
People come to me when they are tired of 'managing' their problems and are ready to resolve them. I don’t see myself as an “expert” or a “guru”. I am neither. I can speak with confidence not because I have special powers, but because I have worked with well over 9,000 clients in the past 20 years.
I know what works, and I know how to help you find it.