This multi-sensory approach to counseling is a form of brief therapy that emphasizes making counseling clear, concrete and thought provoking. Impact Therapy encourages counselors to combine creative counseling techniques with various counseling theories. This innovative approach to counseling is being well received by counselors and therapists from all areas of the mental health field including schools and hospitals, treatment centers and correctional facilities. Impact Therapy Associates consists of therapists who have been involved in extensive training in Impact Therapy with Dr. Ed Jacobs, a counselor educator, national presenter, and author of three very widely used counseling books. The Associates are counselor educators, national presenters, school counselors and private practitioners who present workshops throughout the country on Impact Therapy and use an Impact Therapy approach in their counseling practices.
Participants gain many new ideas that can be applied to their work setting the very next day.
Workshops on Impact Therapy and Group Counseling are available. The five T's of Impact Therapy are discussed, along with the nine Impact Therapy paths. Common mistakes of counseling and how to avoid these mistakes are discussed. Participants will also see and understand how to use many of the creative counseling techniques developed by Dr. Jacobs. The creative techniques demonstrated include the use of props, chairs, movement, writing, drawing, analogies and fantasies.