Dot Whitehouse

Here are some brief descriptions to help you better appreciate the scope of possibilities available to you through Dot's counselling practice.

• Individual and Couple Therapy provides clients the opportunity to explore and gain insight into patterns of behaviour and ways of being in their lives. As a result of this process of exploration, clients may choose to reinforce and enhance some of their positive ways of approaching life situations. They may also choose to modify and transform unsupportive or destructive behaviours and perspectives in order to create for themselves the most satisfying and nourishing life possible. The therapist may use many different treatment approaches to facilitate these changes.

• Sex Therapy involves a range of therapeutic processes and exercises which can be used to initiate, to restore and to enrich both the individual's sexuality and/or the sexual components of an intimate relationship" (BESTCO). Sex therapy does not involve engaging in any form of sexual activity with the therapist present. A sex therapist is specially trained in human sexuality and is comfortable in sharing this knowledge in a non-judgmental, respectful manner. Everyone is entitled to a joyous, adventurous, exciting, vibrant, profound, fulfilling, fun, playful, intimate sexual life.

• Hypnotherapy provides clients opportunities for insight, reframing lived experiences, independence and self-sufficiency. Among its many uses, it is highly effective in treating depression, weight loss, stress management, sexual concerns, and achieving peak performance.

• Comprehensive Energy Psychology teaches a variety of treatment approaches to embrace the body's three interactive systems, the meridians and related acupoints, the chakras or energy centres, and the human biofield, in order to facilitate the best possible outcome for the client" (ACEP) . Dot is trained in many of these cutting edge modalities including EFT™ (Emotional Freedom Techniques), TFT™ (Thought Field Therapy), TAT™ (Tapas Acupressure Technique), and Releasing Technique.

• Guided Self Healing© Developed by licensed clinical psychologist Andrew Hahn, Psy.D., Guided Self Healing© (GSH) is a psychological and spiritual mind-body energetic model of healing and transformation. It helps you heal physical, emotional, mental, relational and spiritual difficulties while moving you to a place of greater self-acceptance. GSH is a simple, powerful 5-step process that is both gentle and extraordinarily effective. By accessing your own inner wisdom and deepest truth through your body, you are able to release what prevents you from living the life you desire. GSH emphasizes core understanding as opposed to simple, mechanistic interventions, addresses deep trauma structures at their root, and works on three levels: the literal, the symbolic, and the metaphysical.

• Energy Medicine views the body as a dynamic system of energies that form its infrastructure. It is the flow, balance and harmony of these energies that are reflected in the body's health (adapted from Energy Medicine by Donna Eden with David Feinstein). Developed by Donna Eden, Energy Medicine combines both current scientific knowledge and ancient healing arts for assessing and treating the energy imbalances that underlie physical, emotional and spiritual unwellness. Dot has advanced training in Energy Medicine.

• B.O.S.™ or Biocomputer Operating System is an innovative energy harmonizing technique that taps into the body's inborn potential to heal itself. This unique modality incorporates 40 years of research and study. It meshes the founders' own research and techniques with the best of others such as TBM™, NET™, Body Alignment™ and various acupuncture methods. There are three overall basic components that affect a person's state of well-being: spiritual, emotional and physical/chemical. B.O.S.™ journeys down a path of present and past factors that have affected your feeling of wellness today and addresses all of these in a non-invasive way. The body prioritizes these factors so the approach to each client's presenting concerns is unique and personalized. The premise underlying B.O.S.™ is based upon three theories: 1) The body has an inborn resistance to illness and disease and has the ability to heal itself; 2) If energy blockages are present, the body's inborn control system is not able to do its work in the normal manner; 3) This technique helps clear the body's energy blockages and assists the body to achieve wellness. The B.O.S.™ technique is able to detect the individual's flawed processes and direct a correction to that specific area through a variety of means including the use of Filtres, Muscle Testing, and Essences. (Adapted with permission from Larry Steel, co-developer of B.O.S.™)

• Therapeutic Touch™ (TT) is a contemporary interpretation of several ancient healing practices. Developed in the early 1970s by Dora Kunz and Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N., it is a consciously directed process of energy exchange to facilitate healing by positively re-patterning energy imbalances and restoring the integrity of the biofield. TT may be practiced hands-on, hands-off or at a distance. Dot has advanced training in Therapeutic Touch.

• Reiki is a form of hands-on energy healing where the practitioner follows a prescribed pattern of hand positions to consciously act as a conduit for the Universal Life Energy in order to promote healing. Reiki may also be practiced hands-off or at a distance. Dot is trained in Usui Reiki (Level 2).

• Regression offers clients a useful tool to safely and efficiently understand how previous experiences have formed and informed their lives. Dot is certified in both hypnotherapy and the Inner Access 101 - Regression Works™ methods to facilitate age regression and past life regression. She currently teaches the Inner Access 101's Regression Works™ program.

• Breathwork, in its various forms, has been used by many cultures and traditions to facilitate the flow of energy and emotion in and through the body.

• Shamanic Healing stems from ancient practices dating back at least 40,000 years. The shaman heals the spiritual aspect of illness by entering an altered state of consciousness to bring back knowledge, power and healing.

• Medical Intuition is not a healing modality, but a supplementary tool to provide an accurate portrait of what is going on in a client's body. It traces the nature and roots of conditions that have manifested themselves in physical discomfort and disease" (Lori Wilson). Dot is a Certified Medical Intuitive and teaches Inner Access 101's Medical Intuition: Lori Wilson's Total Body Intuition ™ program.

• Channelling is an honoured way to focus attention on the many sources of higher wisdom we all have accessible to us all the time. Psychics retrieve the information from a person's energy field or aura, and mediums from individuals who are no longer embodied on this earth plane, while channellers may gather information from all these other sources as well. Dot both offers this service and teaches classes in Inner Access 101's Intuition and Channelling Higher Wisdom™.