Blueprint For Health & Meramec Counseling

2601 Sutton Blvd., Maplewood, MO 63143

Tel: (314) 781-9400

Fax: (314)781-9880

Meramec Counseling, LLC

Donna Kitchen, L.S.C.W.

Melinda S. Fry, L.P.C.

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Individual · Couples · Family · Group Psychotherapy · Trauma

Spatial Metaphor Therapy      

 Some of you are aware that David Grove has been conducting workshops and healing retreats at Meramec Counseling since the late 80's.  The last ten years have been witness to the incredible growth and development of David’s metaphor theory. 

Originally, David presented the concept of “clean language” and used non-judgmental questions to ascertain how clients were storing their unresolved feelings and issues.  His theory is that during traumatic events time slows down for the individual and as the trauma is occurring, the person “stops time” before the worst moment of the trauma.  Once time has stopped for that person, that part of them is unable to move on in life.  Part of them is literally “stuck” at the time of the events. 

Many people suffering from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome) experience debilitating flashbacks.  David used clean language to help the client move forward by going over, around or through that worst moment using the person’s own metaphors so that their hurt child can “grow herself up” and her attention will not always have to return to those traumatic events.

 David’s newest theories add clarity about how we store our past in the spaces around us.  Clients can map out those spaces and create change in their destructive life patterns. He calls this the use of “clean space”. 

 When I first met David, I asked him how he had figured out these theories.  He responded that he had listened to his clients. I went back to my job from that workshop determined to listen with a different ear.  Sure enough, the first client of the week said in his introductory sentence, “I’m here because I have a wall.”  Stunned, I tried to think of the “right” David Grove question to ask him.  Seeing the client look at me through his hands which he was clearly placing on his “wall” between us, I blurted out, “Is it a glass wall?”  The gentleman gave me a strange look and said, “No, it is Plexiglas.”  I had to laugh because of course no one would create a glass wall for protection.  But Plexiglas was a brilliant choice – hard AND see- through.

David is constantly updating and expanding his techniques. He is a patient and respectful therapist who works with clients in an innovative fashion.  I always look forward to the next step and application of his theory.

 
History

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

SNAP Classes
Internal Family Systems
David Grove Spatial Metaphor Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing

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