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Michelle Carchrae

Bringing Together IFS Parts Work and Embodied Experiential Dreamwork

Inner parts and dreams both open up and unfold into experiences of deep meaning when we bring curiosity, compassion and courage to the...

Michelle Carchrae

Journaling Your Therapy Experiences

If you're doing therapy, you're already committing to a process of self-reflection. Journaling is something that can help support your...

Michelle Carchrae

Therapy for Peak Performance

How can therapy help us perform at our best? Imagine trying to work with one hand tied behind your back. When we have a bunch of stuff...

Michelle Carchrae

6 Reasons Why Going to Therapy is Like Going to the Gym

As a culture, we’re more familiar with what goes into getting healthy physically than what it takes to get healthy mentally. However,...

Michelle Carchrae

Focusing Oriented Therapy: A Journey into Inner Wisdom and Healing

If you’ve ever wondered, “what makes therapy work?” you’re not alone. Eugene Gendlin asked that same question back in the 1960’s when he...

Michelle Carchrae

Change and Pushback Reactions

We all know that it can be hard to change, even when you really want to. So when we actually begin to achieve the changes we have been...

Michelle Carchrae

What's the Point of Feeling Emotions?

I just want to feel happy all the time, what's wrong with that? So many people ask me, "what's the point of feeling sad?" It's actually...

Michelle Carchrae

Internal Family Systems Therapy

Is this popular style of therapy right for you? Here's a little background on IFS and a guided reflection process that can help you find...

Michelle Carchrae

Nightmare Treatment and Dreamwork

When most people think of dreamwork, they often imagine a patient reclining on a couch, re-telling their dream to a rather stiff Freudian...