Here's some additional information about my methodology:

What I call "Integrative Depth Psychology"  is a life-changing, empowering approach that facilitates living with integrity, passion and authenticity combined with increasing awareness and application of one's strengths while eliminating obstacles and self-defeating behaviors and beliefs. Clients cultivate and identify those vital, creative, unique characteristics and abilities that empower and support their emotional and psychological well being. Life then takes on renewed meaning with a clear sense of purpose, passion and direction.

Integrative Depth Psychology incorporates aspects of the following therapeutic approaches:

• Jungian Analytical Psychology:
  Jungian Psychology, by means of a symbolic, imaginative, and metaphorical approach, creates a dialectical relationship between our waking consciousness and the unconscious. The psyche is seen as a self-regulating system with a purpose and direction towards wholeness and a life of fuller awareness and meaning—a process Carl Jung called "individuation." Individuation uniquely distinguishes one from mass psychology and societal conformity. In psychotherapy a creative dialogue ensues, incorporating dream analysis, active imagination, and hidden abilities residing in the unconscious. This process creates a therapeutic environment that encourages and supports self-discovery.
  

"Meaning has an inherent curative power. Meaning affects everything."
                                   — C. G. Jung

• Existential Psychology:
  Existential Psychology endeavors to understand individuals by cutting below the cleavage between subject and object which has bedeviled Western thought and science since the Renaissance. It's interesting to note that the term "existence," comes from the root ex-sistere, meaning literally "to stand out, to emerge." As such, Existential Psychology focuses on rediscovering the living person, on the nature of "being," on "existential" dilemmas: meaning, purpose, and the relationships between choice, limitation, and freedom. It is about freeing the creative potential within one's unique experience.

  This approach also addresses anxiety, despair, "existential distress," loneliness, and alienation of individuals from their own potentials and from society. It seeks to create a synthesis and integration of meaning in a person's life. And it suggests that "existential anxiety" results from the threat of "non-being," from "not being able to know the world we are in, not being able to orient ourselves in our own existence."

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned so as to live the life that is waiting for us."
                                                                                                                                                             —  Joseph Campbell

• Humanistic Psychology:
  Helps persons to live more fully and to explore transpersonal possibilities that are latent in being human. It involves serious commitment to the work of therapy and a readiness to make major life changes. Its primary functions are to identify and reduce or eliminate the constrictions that limit one's realization of his/her deeper potential.

• Cognitive Therapies:
  Based on the principles that how we think and what we believe play a major role in determining how we feel, behave and react. Cognitive behavior therapy is a system of strategies and techniques designed to help alleviate phobias, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and obsessive-compulsive behaviors. It also focuses on eliminating destructive logic,  irrational beliefs, limiting self-talk and their consequences in one's life. How do our particular belief systems affect us? How can we change the way we think and imagine, and in so doing, dramatically transform how we experience life? 
  

• Gestalt Therapy:
  Gestalt therapy is a phenomenological-existential therapy incorporating techniques from a wide variety of psychological and philosophical disciplines, integrating them into a therapeutic approach based on the idea of a complete organism—mind and body as an integrated whole. The objective of Gestalt therapy is to enable individuals to become more aware, more creatively alive and to be free from the inhibitions to their potential and vitality that diminish optimum satisfaction, fulfillment, and growth. It was Leonardo da Vinci who said, "For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."

                  — Barbara Lipinski, Ph.D., Psychology Professor