The Connecticut Center For Human Growth and Development is a private practice in psychotherapy established in 1979. Therapists at the Connecticut Center are licensed and certified professionals working in a holistic model who support and foster optimal mental health and personal growth.

Many years of learning, experience and insight are utilized toward the goal of integration of body, mind and spirit. The Center is grounded in the belief that knowing and being true to oneself is the key to mentaL physical and emotional health true autonomy and responsible spontaneity. Their integrated approach includes Gestalt Therapy, Bioenergetics, Psychodrama, Object Relations, and other treatment modalities as well as neurophysiological insights.

The Unconscious

In recent years scientific research has shown increasing evidence of the mind-body connection and how it works. Mind and body seem to be functionally identical. Thinking and feeling are neurophysiological (and thus physical) processes that interact with the body as a whole, just as the body in return impacts what and how one thinks and feels. As an example, someone who believes him/herself to be unloved, experiences him/herself as worthless and feels hopeless about life might develop a clinical depression. This person is much more likely to become physically ill (develop heart disease, for example) than someone who is well connected to other people and who feels loved and cared about by others.

Likewise, someone who has had a heart attack is more likely to fall into a depression than a physically healthy person. In accordance with these observations, other medical and psychological studies show that people who enter therapy after they have had a heart attack increase their life expectancy significantly. The same seems to hold true for many other diseases.

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The Connecticut Center's approach to treatment considers these insights and, if appropriate, integrates bioenergetic as well as other bodywork in the therapeutic process.