Holistic Psychotherapy for Anxiety and Self-Esteem Through Person-Centered and Experiential Modalities

When I'm not in session, I like to spend time with my friends and family. Connection is very important to me and I rely heavily on my support system. So just whether that's hanging out around the house playing games or I also love music and dancing, so I go to a lot of concerts frequently and I'm also a foodie so I love to explore restaurants around the Atlanta area. Hi, my name is Tiffany Jones and I am a holistic psychotherapist specializing primarily in anxiety, self-esteem and life transitions. I've been with Perspectives for about five years now. What clients can expect when they work with me is a space to just explore who they are, what they're going through and how they might want to make some adjustments according to what it is that they discovered. So sometimes people already know what it is that they want to work on when they come into therapy and we just flow from there and sometimes people just need to take a little bit of time to figure it out either way it's fine, it's just an open space to explore in a caring and non judgmental environment. So a little bit about my background and why I'm so passionate about being a psychotherapist is luckily I was able to grow up in a household where I was allowed to kind of explore what it was that I wanted and figure out what I loved and what I was passionate about and when I was in the fourth grade actually I read a book called Inside Out by Terry Truman and it was about a little boy with schizophrenia and it was the first book that ever made me cry and it was the first time that I connected to my sense of empathy and from that moment I knew that I wanted to help people, I didn't know exactly what avenue I would take in order to do that but as I was able to learn and explore throughout my coursework just into the future. I realized that a therapist is what I wanted to be, so that was my calling I feel like since the fourth grade. I wanted to join Perspectives because I actually started off here as an intern and when I came in to interview with our founder Laurie for my internship it felt so comfortable. I walked in and the first question she asked me was if I was a dog or a cat person and so the interview was very informal and we ended up talking for about an hour just kind of about life and philosophies and I knew when I left that interview that this is the place that I wanted to be. So I started as an intern and I haven't left ever since. So some approaches that I like to use as a therapist are person centered, so that just means that the person is at the center of the experience, the therapeutic experience. No one knows their life better than the person that's living it, so that's where the person centered piece comes into play and then I also use existential modalities and that's where a lot of the exploration piece comes into play. So you're exploring yourself on the inside, the things that you feel about yourself some maybe like existential exploration going on and then you're also exploring where those ideas come from so whether that comes from your family, whether that comes from societal influences that existential piece is where most of the exploration takes place and then I am also an experiential therapist. So the experiential piece of it is where a lot of the learning and retraining, reframing of the brain comes into play and that's where I will facilitate activities. I'll bring in some worksheets, sometimes to work on and then I also lead workshops for individuals and groups as well and I've recently started an initiative where I have created a program where we lead free workshops once every two weeks for people that just want to come in and learn a little bit more about themselves or take care of themselves in a little bit more of a way and it's called the self love series, so I'm kind of leading the initiative on that as well through experiential methods. I think therapy can benefit people through healing from the things that you've been through, from any trauma that you might be holding in your body and in your mental space but it can also serve as a proactive measure for just exploration and when things feel maybe a little bit misaligned but you don't know what that might be, it can serve as a proactive measure to explore yourself and then adjust accordingly based on the information that you get from that. So, therapy can be healing for things from the past but it can also be really great for things in the future as well. Holistic Therapy means that you're working with mind, body, and spirit. So there are things that influence you mentally that you might want to remove from your mental space, so that's the mind. But the things that are going on in your mind also affect the way that you feel in your body and vice versa, so we work with that as well and then any kind of spiritual practices or rituals that you might want to implement in order to keep that lifestyle going, keep your wellness and keep your kind of sense of motivation as well. So mind, body, spirit.