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Gayle Nelson, LCSW Integrative Psychotherapy
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My Services
MY SERVICES
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
- Albert Einstein
Individuals
Individual sessions are tailored to meet your unique needs and begin with traditional talk therapy, exploring what your current challenges are and what has prompted you to seek support now.
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It’s important for us to get to know each other and connect. I believe creating safety and building trust is the foundation for healing. This means giving you as much time as you need to feel secure enough to speak about what you’re experiencing, while genuinely being heard and validated from a non-judgmental place. Then, based on what you are seeking, we will explore a variety of traditional and holistic therapeutic approaches to maximize your sessions and assist you in gaining insight, developing needed skills and actualizing your greatest potential. Therapeutic approaches I utilize include cognitive-behavioral, somatic-mind-body and experiential modalities, for identifying and connecting to the emotions, beliefs and patterns that are at the source of the current challenges.

Couples
Couples sessions focus on clear, connected, honest communication to move through blocks in the relationship.
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To have clear, connected, honest communication requires an understanding of emotional and developmental patterns that are impacting both partners as individuals and how these patterns are now disrupting the relationship. I will guide you to identify the feelings, behaviors and patterns that trigger the blocks to trust and intimacy between you and your partner. You will learn to listen authentically, with compassion, to your partner’s needs and feelings, while learning how to communicate your own needs and feelings in a healthy way that allows deeper understanding and negotiation in disagreements. This process allows for validation of each of your needs and opens blocks to the deep connection you seek.

Groups
Group programs accelerate healing and are for people who are ready to take their healing to the next level and change their lives. Group work is transformational because, the therapeutic process happens now, and resolution and healing can be instantaneously modeled and accessed.
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Groups not only provide support and operate as a sounding board for whatever you’re experiencing, they also allow you to experience it in relation to others. This is important because even if you grew up in a loving home, most of us were not taught healthy ways to function and communicate. These dysfunctional patterns unconsciously get carried over into all other relationships, especially intimate partnerships. Until we bring these patterns into the conscious mind and learn ways to heal them, we continually get emotionally triggered and this stops us from having the loving connection with others that we truly want. Group work can offer the possibility to heal ourselves in connection to others in a way that cannot happen in our individual sessions.


Contact Me
1400 East Oakland Park Boulevard, Suite 202
Oakland Park, Florida 33334
Email | Tel: 954.560.8953