The approach of mainstream psychotherapy is still based upon analysis; forever separating and dissecting. This perspective is not only outmoded, it constructs false realities and moreover, is antithetical to emotional and psychological healing. This paradigm is stuck conceptually in notions of cause and effect and linear thinking.Such thinking deprives us of our participatory role in our wondrous universe. This approach is particularly limiting, if not harmful in the field of psychotherapy. It tends to treat people as objects to be analyzed, rather than as humans with whom the therapist can help co-create more meaningful lives.Mel’s therapy approaches accesses a varied and multi-disciplinary approach. His work has been informed by systems thinking, cognitive, humanistic and transpersonal therapy, Jungian analysis and the emerging sciences, particularly quantum physics and chaos theory. Mel devotes himself to bringing his work into alignment with many of the advances in emerging sciences, rather than relying upon outmoded methods based upon 17th century science. His belief in the human potential for transformation motivates his commitment to practice. As such, he shuns the sovereignty of the bio-medical approach of diagnosis, as a self-limiting and de-humanizing construct.He has established significant expertise in the following areas:
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Therapy Approaches
Traditional psychotherapy is proficient at looking backward in a reductive and analytic way, trying to explain why we are who we have come to be. But it tends to fall short in addressing how we get there from here. And even more fundamentally, what "there" looks like.
