Therapist Shari B. Kaplan argues that healing requires treating the whole person, not isolated symptoms. When clinicians address only one part, the person stays stuck in negative beliefs. Real healing means working with the entire ecosystem so clients can move beyond limitations and access their resilient self.
If you only treat one part of a person, only one part of the person can move. Yeah. If we don't treat the entire ecosystem together, then we never get to integration. And healing is integration. When I hear other clinicians say, well, we never heal, then I wanna say, well, then you're not treating the entire ecosystem because you can get to a place where whatever the negative beliefs are Are no longer what you function from, and that you can actually function from your strengths and the person who overcame things, and that you get to know who that is and you get an appreciation for who that is.
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