TREATING ADOLESCENT VICTIMS OF ABUSE AND NEGLECT

The MERISMOS is an Experiential, Spirit-based Psychotherapy, which was founded by Iris Hackett, LPC. The MERISMOS is a process whereby one can learn to harness the power of their spirit to act as a guide for the dividing and exploring one’s soul realm as a means to promote emotional healing and personal growth.   The MERISMOS process is the ultimate vehicle in which individual’s learn the art of self-discovery, spiritual and symbolic thinking, transition and transformation. The MERISMOS Model builds upon the base of recognized Psychological and Spiritual models such as Transpersonal Psychology, Transformational Psychology, Self-Actualization Psychology, Archetype Psychology and Energy Psychology.  Along with these recognized models, The Merismos utilizes several theoretical approaches of Psychotherapy to achieve emotional healing and personal growth such as Art Psychotherapy, Cognitive-Behavioral, Jungian, Psychodynamic, and Psycho-education.

Trauma of any kind can be devastating to the human soul by means of undermining the individual’s awareness that his/her mind, body and spirit have detached and have caused a disturbance in their physical, mental and emotional functioning.  Integration of the three entities is vital if emotional healing is to occur.

The objective of the MERISMOS Process is to assist clinicians and individual seekers how to discuss and explore how one can heal emotionally from a traumatic experience through use of techniques and interventions, which promote the integration of mind, body and spirit.

REACHING ADOLESCENTS WITH A HOLISTIC APPROACH...

The MERISMOS Process provides mental health clinicians, counselors and non-professionals with state of the art interventions with new and innovative therapeutic techniques that promote emotional healing with adolescent victims of abuse and neglect.  These techniques are specifically targeted to assist and teach clinicians how to help adolescents self-explore and identify self-defeating and sabotaging behaviors through understanding the mind-body’s natural energy system and how this system can be stimulated to eliminate and ultimately heal emotional distress. Clinicians will also learn how to journey with their clients into the universal world of collective unconsciousness and discover how psychological archetypes and behavioral patterns promote self-defeating and/or self-empowering behaviors.