Why Do People Think That Those Who Become Psychologists Have Problems Themselves – Vol. 441, Feb. 15, 2018
Because those, including myself, who have gotten into the field, did so because they had problems of their own that they needed to contend with.
Now, this is the sad reality, and if you are a licensed mental health pro, spare telling me how I am wrong on this point as I have over 35 years dealing both inside the system as an ex-client, inside the system as a mental health counselor and outside the system as a Hypnotist! 35 years is a ton of experience!
The truth is that most of the people in mental health services never really clear out their own issues. What that means is that many, not all, but many are busy telling others how to better their lives, when these folks haven’t even gotten their own lives straightened out!
This leads to projections of the therapists onto their patients without even realizing what they are doing. These patients feel their boundaries were overridden. Which gets these patients to the point where they have figured out that their therapists have as many problems as they do, and then some of them make the decision to stop their therapy.
I had too many situations working as a counselor with my masters level bosses blaming our clients both for the symptoms of their illness especially the schizophrenics and borderline personality disordered ones and without any respect for the clients’ over sedation due to overmedication. Because, unlike myself, when I found myself in a similar state (circa 1989) these clients didn’t have the ability to tell their psychiatrist to lower their medication.
I would go as far as to say that many of the medications they were placed on weren’t needed. But that early in my mental health work, I didn’t know what I know today. Most mental health issues are cleared with learning how to clear the negative events that brought on the symptoms, along with a compelling future stronger than whatever secondary gain the client gets from being ill and/or malnutrition based on leaky gut, hormonal imbalances, medication interactions, etc.
How do I know? I cleared my own mental health problems, am now totally medication free and psychiatrist free since Jan 5, 2005, with my ex-psychiatrist’s blessings and I have helped many of my clients accomplish the same thing!
The body and mind work together, so there is a lot more to helping people with seemingly mental illness, then handing out very powerful presuppositions that they will always have these illnesses and have to “manage them,” totally untrue, by the way. And handing out body destroying medications that may subdue some symptoms, have been clinically tested to be about as powerful as a placebo! Ever heard of Dr. Irving Kirschior Dr. Walter Brown? Or how about the National Health Service in Great Britain? None of these give out anti-depressants without a person demonstrating symptoms of major depression, meaning a person must have thoughts of suicidal ideation and been depressed for over two weeks.
A psychologist doesn’t have a license to write prescriptions. However, many refer to a psychiatrist or psych nurses that do have the license to write a prescription.
It is a dream of mine that ALL mental health professionals doing clinical work, study Hypnosis in depth, and integrate it into their practices. They could help so many more people because it is such a quick method of healing.
Having them learn more holistic approaches such as realizing that just because something looks like anxiety or depression, maybe it’s because of their patient’s inability to metabolize the nutrition necessary to make the neurotransmitters and hormones necessary for mental health.
This is what my clients taught me, and I am very happy that they did. Because, sometimes those migraine headaches are actually due to a boundary being overridden by someone close to the client, needing a reframe and some healthy boundaries to be formed.
You see, it goes both ways. And to get to the real cause of our client’s issues, first, we need to clear our own crap, then we need to know when a referral is required! This means getting our egos out of the way, being present, being real and being responsible, to the degree our clients trusted us by employing us to do the best for them, and nothing less!
That means: if a treatment ain’t working, think differently!
You can check out one of my client’s story of healing 8 years later. He wants everyone to know that healing can be theirs given the multitude of abuse (even inside the mental health system) he went through from 6 months old till the age of 16 when we did this work together in Nov. 2005. Even better, after not seeing him in the 3 years since he wrote his story of healing, he is doing great (Sept 2017). It’s a disturbing story, yet there are many things you can learn from his detailed account:
Here’s Antonio’s story:
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About Suzanne
Suzanne Kellner-Zinck founded Dawning Visions Hypnosis in 2002, She has become an innovator in the use of hypnotism and neuro-linguistic programming in the areas of obsessive compulsive disorders such as: eating disorders, sexual addiction and substance abuse as well as working with those with anxiety and mood disorders.
Her clients have come to work with her from across the United States and as far away as Africa to help them to finally be freed from these emotional issues that once ruled their lives. Today she is in the process of bringing her work to many more in the form of ebooks and other downloadable formats.
She is a member of American Holistic Medical Association and the American College for Advancement in Medicine.
Prior to founding Dawning Visions Hypnosis, Kellner-Zinck worked within vendor programs for the mentally ill working to help them to live up to their fullest potential. Many of her previous clients were able to move out on their own and find fulfilling work.
Kellner-Zinck is a Certified Trainer of Hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic programing through Tad James Company, Inc. and a Master Hypnotist and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming through Advanced Neuro Dynamics. She holds a bachelor’s degree in education and political studies from Curry College.
Dawning Visions Hypnosis is teaching people that they can indeed leave their unwanted behaviors behind as they move forward to living fulfilling and joy filled lives.