[ the SNOW method ]
...is a comprehensive client-specific approach to self-awareness. Whether your aims are personal, professional, relationship-related or otherwise, these sessions will help you develop a new awareness and give you skills to achieve the change you are craving.
T E L L M E A B O U t
[ the approach ]
Developed by Kate Snow, The Snow Method is a course of action that moves individuals to self-awareness. This approach weaves together a diverse range of therapies focused on self-actualization. This means breaking old habits and patterns of behavior and effectively ushering in the change required for you to thrive.
t e l l m e a b o u t
[ the process ]
The process Kate developed uses four approaches to achieve the changes and goals you wish to achieve:
1. Empty Chair Work
Empty Chair work was first popularized by Fritz Perls, one of the founders of Gestalt therapy. The Empty Chair method is designed to allow the client to work through interpersonal or internal conflict.
The client sits across from the Empty Chair and images someone in it; their significant other, their sibling, their employer, their high-school English teacher, a parent (dead or alive). The client can also place in the Empty Chair as aspect of themselves they have conflict with.
The client them speaks to the Empty Chair—to the person they have placed there. The client explains their feelings, thoughts, anger, or grief to the individual in the Empty Chair. The client will know when they have finished their communication, because they simply stop talking.
Now the client gets up, walks over to the Empty Chair and sits in it and looks directly where he or she was just sitting, and responds to what the client just said, from their emotional or none motional perspective. Their response is over when they stop talking.
The client then stands up, walks back to where they were sitting, and they feel the need, desire to respond to what was just said to the, then they do. The client may move back and forth between chairs several times or not.
It is my job to make sure my client doesn’t fall into role-playing, or unauthentic dialogue. You can hear it and see it when that happens, so I ask them to stop.
And get back in touch with their feelings and continue. Empty Chair work is a powerful procedure.
2. Creating Mandalas
Mandala means circle. Dr. Jung was the first therapist to use Mandala work as a way to access a client’s hidden self. It has been my experience the Mandala can be a great source for bringing to the client information for self-reflection. insight about a truth they were unable to look at, or acknowledge. A circle is used because it is a limited space to work within; therefore there is only room for essential images, pictures and symbols. Finally, the Mandala can be healing; can bring new beginnings or closure.
3. Dream Work
If a client dreams a lot I ask them to keep a dream journal next to their bed and record their dreams each morning. Then they bring in the dream to our session and we work on the dream. Dr. Carl Jung saw dreams as the unconscious’ attempt to communicate important things to the individual, and he valued them highly, as a way of knowing what really is going on. He understood the dream as neither a disguise nor a symptom but as a source of new understanding. Jung based his understanding directly on dream content. Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth.
4. Active-Imagination Writing
This technique is a vivid process for people with a present, active imagination.
They utilize their active imagination through writing. It can be a shot story, or a long story. The perfect time for this type of writing is when the client is alone and quiet. Where they can take a few moments to get calm, maybe close their eyes for a moment, then bring to mind the issues, conflict, problem, conflict with their significant other, parent (deceased or alive), a sibling, their child, a co-worker, employer. The client writes the story, then brings it to the next session, and read it out loud. I have attached here, with the permission of my male client, a story he wrote when I said to him, “Think of your marriage as a soup. What needs to be added? What is missing from the soup? How do you want your Relationship Soup to taste?” READ THE STORY HERE
w h e r e d o i s t a r t ?
[ the next step ]
We can meet in person, talk on the phone, or Skype for any and all sessions.
Sessions are available on weekdays, weekends, and evenings.
Same day appointments also available.
I look forward to hearing from you.
- Kate