Nancy Gershman, Lcsw Email & Phone Number

How do we know when we're healed, "fixed", back to ourselves? There's a lightening up, a kinder voice in our heads, a bursting generosity and restored sense of purpose. And how does one get there with an integrative therapist? It begins with talk therapy: you in the here and now. It moves to go-to's like Breathwork and Tapping. Honoring the Child part who survived (whether little t or Big T trauma). Listing the constricting beliefs of your Inner Critic. Inviting you to play with new self-talk, role-playing, power poses or seeking "signs." Helping you map past, present, or looming conflicts to re-write your future.The best healing comes with feeling safe enough with me to break your own rules and truly come to know and love yourself. Above all, my respect for your emotional truth is what makes the relationship work. With grace, I can help you see how a highly sensitive nature, long held emotional states and unhelpful communication styles could be maintaining unhappiness.Also ...... as the creative arts practitioner who developed Dreamscaping, I also love to help my clients struggling with loss, to build the memory they need in their own imagination. Say, for example, we discover an unmet need. Maybe there is a beloved person, place or thing you can never return to. I would resource your felt sense memory for all the memories that lifted you up in the past with regards to this person, place or thing. Assembling these into a prescriptive memory, I'd "run the movie" to make sure you continue to be lifted up by this new (hybrid) memory. The final step would be to make the prescriptive memory tangible— as a photo collage, seamless digital photo collage, 3-D shrine or multimodal piece of art. Populations benefiting from dreamscaping range from those struggling with grief/loss to people with eating disorders.For case presentations of Dreamscaping, see my book, “Prescriptive Memories in Grief and Loss: The Art of Dreamscaping” (Routledge, 2019) co-authored with Barbara E. Thompson, , LCSW, OTR/L, CAGS. Contributors include: Lauren J. Breen, PhD, FT | Noah Hass-Cohen, PsyD, ATR- BC, LMFT | John R. Jordan, PhD, FT | Phyllis Kosminsky, PhD, FT, LCSW | Bonnie Mark, MA, LMFT | Lisa Mitchell, MS, LMFT, ATR, LPC | Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD | Angelique Poisson, LMFT, ATR | Sharon Strouse, MA, ATR-BC, LCPAT

Listed skills include Art, Blogging, Public Speaking, Photography, and 12 others.