About Reset Therapies
Mission
Reset Therapies is committed to providing a compassionate and person-centred approach to assist people with navigating their challenges and achieve, not just mental health wellness, but to reach for the best version of themselves. By creating a safe and supportive space, we seek to empower those on their therapeutic journey to explore themselves and their world more fully and to live more satisfying and meaningful lives. Together we work towards solutions and you achieving your treatment goals.
Method
By working with what is present in your life right now, as well as what emerges in the process of exploration in the therapy room, we will engage with you as a curious and interested partner to help you navigate some of the more challenging, perhaps confusing and potentially painful parts of yourself and your life. Through bringing awareness to behaviours and emotions, to automatic thinking, patterns, responses and reactions—to those sometimes hidden parts of ourselves—we believe everyone is able to achieve a greater sense of self and ultimately choice, agency and freedom in their lives.
We understand that entrenched behavioural and psychological problems, including developmental interruptions and trauma, require holistic treatment solutions. These problems become entangled and embedded between our bodies and and our psyches - our conscious, subconscious and unconscious minds. Our approach is to work both somatically (where appropriate) and cognitively and psychodynamically, to assist you to map yourself and experience therapeutic corrective experiences.
At the heart of meaningful therapeutic progress is the relationship itself — 'relational psychotherapy' recognises that healing and transformation emerge through a genuine, attuned, and emotionally honest connection between therapist and client.
About Andrew Dib (Principal Therapist)
Credentials
Andrew is a trauma informed therapist practicing predominantly from the interconnected dynamics of here and now and psychodynamic frameworks. His practice is informed by tertiary qualifications, ongoing professional development and by his own continual personal exploration and transformation. Rather than rigidly following one school of therapy, Andrew integrates approaches according to what best serves the person sitting in front of him.
For over twenty-five years, Andrew has worked closely with people in private practice and in residential treatment centres helping them recover from addiction related concerns and complex mental health presentations. Andrew practices and embraces continual self-exploration and spiritual mysticism (direct experience of self phenomena) as well as regular immersion in complementary modalities to inform his own personal and professional development. Andrew brings his whole self to his therapy sessions and endeavours to meet you exactly where you are at.
The modalities Andrew draws from and integrates in the therapy space include: Person-centred Counselling, Gestalt Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic Theory and practice, Parts Work, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Emotionally Focussed Therapy, Logotherapy, Somatic, Nervous System & Breath Work Practice, Biodynamic Trauma Release, Polyvagal Theory and Attachment Theory.
Tertiary Certifications
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Master of Counselling
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Masters level Gestalt training
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Diploma of Alcohol and Other Drugs Work
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Bachelor of Sociology & Political Economy
Areas of Other Professional Interest & Development
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Internal Family Systems
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BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release
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Hologenic & Holotropic Breathwork
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Somatic Experiencing
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Polyvagal Theory: Enhancing Emotional Regulation
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Emotionally Focused Therapy
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Logotherapy
Psychotherapy Practice Philosophy
We all have the capacity to adapt, grow, heal and transform and to meet the challenges of our life. Yet sometimes the way through and forward might be just out of reach.
Through dialogue and creative therapeutic engagement, we will explore what is present for you in your life right now and the parts of yourself that might be out of awareness or difficult to navigate on your own. Our life experiences are often shaped by a series of past and present experiences that have been influenced by 'creative adjustments' and coping mechanisms, some of which may have once been effective and are now potentially maladaptive. These are often embedded into our subconscious and unconscious programming and usually activated automatically and out of our awareness.
When we understand our unresolved and unprocessed emotions and our automatic cognitive processes more completely we are able to be liberated from them and their automatic control over us. Their crystalisation in our body and mind begin to liquify, and we become more malleable and responsive to our experience of ourselves and to life.
And sometimes, it's just that we don't seem to have access to the right resources and strategies that we need to meet some of our life's challenges. Our aim is to help raise awareness and assist with developing updated ways of responding to yourself, others and the world so you can move closer to your treatment goals and to your deeper self.
Some More About Andrew
Andrew has spent close to three decades consciously observing, understanding and working with himself (as well as professionally with others) to be more integrated and in greater harmony with himself. It took a major crisis all those years ago, and then many crises since, to guide him into the kind of inner-work that he needed to heal and thrive. He has been and continues to be committed to the continual exploration, acceptance and transformation of himself to enjoy a more full and interconnected experience of his life. Through examining the psychological, historical, social, philosophical, spiritual and sensory aspects of his being and the world around him, Andrew more and more becomes closer to authenticity, and to the person he desires to be.