Self Knowledge Base is a foundation dedicated to Self-Transcendence and Self-Growth. It has a mission in educating people in learning about them selves. This learning can lead individuals to be able to find the roots of negative and damaging emotions, behaviors, and thoughts and to replace them with the ones that are healthier and more productive.  A person who does not know himself can not be aware of his core essence and the magnificence within; consequently, such a person will not be able to be conscious, concerned, and attentive to  himself and his surroundings.

 

 

            

There are many ways a person can go about helping themselves when faced with an emotional pain. One of these ways is theray which can be very helpful in discovering the roots of the problem and the path to cure.   

  • Product & Services:

    Group Therapy

    Individual Therapy

    Coaching

    Family/Marriage Therapy

    Child Therapy, Play Therapy using theraputic games

    Pre-Marital Counseling

    Seminar/Lectures/Workshops

Some Therapy Methods:

 

1. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a psychotherapy that helps the individual in transforming everyday thoughts and behaviors which will effect emotions. The most common techniques used are behavior modification and cognitive therapy. The specific therapeutic techniques differ according to the actual type of client or the issue s/he comes in with, but commonly include keeping a diary of significant events and associated feelings, thoughts and behaviors; questioning and testing irrational patterns of thinking which lead to unproductive habits.

 

2. Psychodynamic approaches which focus around maladaptive functions that develop early in life (mostly in childhood) which are partially unconscious.  This will block the person from having a healthy sense of self. Sometime people become aware of these blockages and sometime they don’t. The psychodynamic therapist will first treat the discomfort associated with the poorly formed function, help the client understand what they are and how they can block a healthy mental growth, then will come change and recovery or replacement of a new functioning.  The goal will be for the client to experience the “truth” of self which will be coming  through the breakdown of psychological defenses. Many individuals suffering from psychological disorders or some form of personality disorders often come from confusing, manipulative, dishonest, or even violent families in childhood. The first step is to be honest with those true feelings buried inside and start processing them.

 

3. Jungian (Analytical Psychology) which focuses on helping clients access their unconscious in order to be able to reach the stage of self-realization and individuation.  In Jungian therapy the process of individuation which refers to the progress of an individual over time is one of the main concepts which includes an development of consciousness and a unique personality.
Jung believed that if we are unconscious and undeveloped, we are limiting our ability to be productive, creative, and we decrease our chances of adopting to life’s changes.  Mental blockages and psychological symptoms are signals that parts of us are fragmented and unbalanced. A unique aspect of Jungian therapy is the understanding that control for what we need to incorporate to function completely comes from within ourselves.


 4. Adlerian/Individual psychology which is based on the belief that all human’s behavior have a purpose to it. True change and growth results from identification, exploring, and making changes with the mistakes of life. In Adlerian therapy the focus is on the importance of the feelings of the self (ego) that arise from interactions and conflicts. The sense of self is the central core of personality. The emphasis is on motivating the client and social interaction. Adlerian Therapy is a growth model. It stresses a positive view of human nature and that we are in control of our own fate and not a victim to it. We start at an early age in creating our own unique style of life and that style stays relatively constant through the remained of our life. That we are motivated by our setting of goals, how we deal with the tasks we face in life, and our social interest.. The goal of Adlerian Therapy is to challenge and encourage the clients' premises and goals. To encourage goals that are useful socially and to help them feel equal. 

 

5. Humanistic therapy which focuses on the uniqueness of each individual and helps the client realize their full potential. Humanistic psychology recognizes  that an individual’s mind is powerfully influenced by continuing determining forces in both their unconscious and in the surrounding world, specifically the society in which they live. Humanistic therapy holds a hopeful, constructive view of human beings and the individual’s extensive capability to be self-determining. This therapeutic approach works with present (rather than past) occurrences and attitudes with a goal of client growth and fulfillment.

 

6. Interpersonal therapy (ITP) which is a short term psychotherapy in which the issues and problems are identified and the client is encouraged toward ways to rectify these concerns. Interpersonal therapy is a treatment that focuses on the behaviors and social interactions a client  has with family and friends. The primary goal of this therapy is to improve communication skills and increase self-esteem during a short period of time. It usually lasts three to four months and works well for depression caused by mourning, relationship conflicts, major life events, and social isolation.

 

 

 

 

 

Psychotherapy 

 

Many people are not aware of emotional pain in themselves and in others, for example,  they may ask “why can’t s/he just get out of this depression?”   Because it is too painful, for someone who is jammed in her/his emotional pain, sometimes it is easier to stay there than to come out and face reality.  It is this fear of reality that makes us escape from our pain to try to find a cure. It seems like this pain becomes our comfort zone that is unproductive for us but we are not ready to get out.  

 

The irrational patterns of feelings, perceptions, and behaviors that a person with an emotional pain experiences and expresses are not at a conscious level most of a time. These are usually out of awareness. Root oriented treatment starts at this unconscious level  to help the person become aware of what is happening.  It helps the person become insightful about her/his Self.  

 

 The less aware humans are of their motives, intentions, feelings, thoughts, actions, perceptions, the more these aspects control them rather than them having control over these aspects of their “self”.  As an example, an aggressive person  who has allowed her emotion of anger control her rather than her having control over this emotion to use it in a balanced form for survival (which is called assertiveness).  This lack of control gets us stuck in repeating the same destructive  patterns over and over again without seeing the effect they have on us and the directions of life they are taking us towards.  Relief from these symptoms can start with realizing and integrating into our everyday consciousness that which is being masked. That is when the process of “cleaning the mirror of being” starts. 

 

Start taking the dust off of that mirror and then your mirror of being will reflect clearly. Becoming aware of one’s particular personality process, of the parts of the person that need or want things that make the rest of the person feel down,  and how all these pieces of the “self” fit together like a puzzle.  Books, lectures, websites and other forms of self-help are general and valuable forms of self-education but they are like statistics. They will give you a general idea about most people but you have to consider that you are a unique person and treatment for your healing process should be accordingly.

 

Psychotherapy is a useful form of treatment. It is rational and available. It is not some obscure, indescribable,  mystical process that only some people can take hold of, a faith that only some believe in and some do not.  Psychotherapy  is a logical process which anyone can comprehend and walk though.  It is based on facts that are logical and reasonable.  Psychotherapy is a dialog not a teaching, advice giving session.

 

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