Treatment Based on Collaboration, Creativity, and Neuroscience
Treatment Approaches Beyond Words
Dr. Peg Hurley Dawson
"We're not here to manage the outside world. We're here to manage our response to the outside world."
Caroline Myss
Experience
- Peg has over 20 years of experience successfully assisting individuals and couples in healing from all types of emotional, relationship, complex trauma, and mental and sexual health issues.
- Peg continually collaborates with her clients (the ideal co-therapist) in their therapeutic process.
- Peg is skillful in navigating challenging situations while bring wholeness into her co-therapist(s) life.
- Peg is the author of "Sand Therapy for Out of Control Sexual Behavior, Shame, and Trauma: Treatment Approaches Beyond Words" in 2023 published by Routledge.
If you or your loved one struggle with the following Please feel free to contact Peg
- Complex Trauma, PTSD. ADHD, Self Esteem issues, and Addiction
- Medically Unexplained Symptoms
When tests are completed without finding any medical causes
- Life Journeys or Transitions
- Depression or Mood Disorders
- Eating Disorders
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Behavioral issues
- Interpersonal Issues
- Relationship issues
- Attachment Issues
- Developmental Trauma
- "Sex Addiction" [How to heal from problematic sexual behavior]
- Kink, BDSM and Fetishes
- LGBTQIA+
- Non Binary
- Non Traditional Relationships
- Consensual Non Monogamy
- Polyamory
- Swinging
- Mismatched Desire
- Sex with out pain
- Erectile Disorders
- Or other mental and sexual health issues
All Treatments Methods are Strength-based
Peg's Therapeutic 'Tool Kit'
Positive Psychotherapy
Focuses on an individual's strengths, positive emotions, and enhancing their overall well being.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Therapeutic approach assisting people in exploring and integrating different parts of their personality.
-See video below-
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
A therapy that helps people process and heal from trauma and upsetting events.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Assists individuals with integrating body awareness and emotional psychological processing.
The Polyvagal Theory (PVT)
An evolutionary based lens used in psychotherapy to explain the physiological states of the autonomic nervous system underlying emotions.
-See video below-
Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP)
Powerful music-based trauma intervention designed to regulate the nervous system for people suffering with anxiety, depression, and other mental health disorders.
-See video below-
Kalffian Sandplay
A therapeutic approach that access the healing powers of the unconscious intuitively .
SandStory Therapy
A technique Peg studied in Europe which is rooted in Sandplay and curative nature of storytelling
IFS Sandtray Therapy
Integrating Internal Family Systems with symbols/figurines to access part.
Art and Expressive Therapy
Creative activities helping people explore and heal their from negative events, eperiences, and trauma.
TEB (Transforming Experienced The Based-Brain)
TEB integrates The Polyvagal Theory, somatic healing, and attachment theory in healing.
Integrating PVT, IFS, & Somatic Responses
Introduction video for professionals and individuals seeking effective treatments for healing
Testimonial for Safe and Sound Protocol
Coming Soon Peg's Podcast
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. There is no birth of consciousness without pain." Carl Jung Sand treatments empower people to use their hands and the unconscious will solve the problem unlike talk therapy.
Images of Peg Training in Sand Therapy
"Discovery often means the uncovering of something that was always there but was obscured by something else."
Roger von Tech
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