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Jane
Silver Carlisle, Ph.D. 805 687-2551 |
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| Ph.D., UCSB, APA Approved Program Serve adults with individual and relationship concerns. Specialties include: Trauma survivors; assertiveness/anger management; conflict resolution; communication skills Office Hours: evenings and weekends Theoretical Orientation: To capture my approach to psychotherapy in one word I would say that I am constructivist in conceptualizing my work. I draw upon diverse modalities, theorists, and practitioners (e.g. G Kelly, Lineham, Haley, Watzlawick, Bandura, Frank, Weimer, Beck, etc.), but I depend upon the client as “authority” in determining the meaning of psychological “events." I believe that knowledge gathering about the self which takes place in therapy is an evolving process that cannot be separated from context (e.g. a person’s cultural and familial values, early experiences in childhood and the way those were reported and interpreted and responded to by self and others) and that this knowledge gathering is an interactive process, dependent upon a trustworthy and genuine therapeutic relationship. In my work at the University, I try to fit my conceptualizations about change into a brief model-- in fact I believe that change is a profound process that takes its own time. Brief therapy works best, I find, in a situation that allows frequent “returns” to the therapeutic wortk (much as we visit out MD…when needed) with “allowance” for the evolvement of life change as part of the process of therapeutic change. |
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