Therapist Shari B. Kaplan argues that every patient is already whole, and the body knows how to heal itself. Therapy works by restoring homeostasis, the body's natural balance. Clinicians need varied tools to support what the body already wants to do.
The foundation that we approach our patients with is that they were whole before they came to this planet. And when we ask, who is somebody? The answer that we have now in psychology is that you are the self. You are the creative, curious, compassionate, energetic being that circuits your body. And that your body has the ability to self-correct and self-heal. And if that is true, that getting the body back into homeostasis, then we have to have a lot of tools in our tool belt that can help with that.
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