Colvin James C M Div

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Balance U is your kind of place if you seek wholeness, wellbeing and healthy relationships. It is part of the complimentary and alternative medicine movement. Mental health resources offered include marriage counseling, psychotherapy, pastoral counseling, personal coaching and energy work.
Balance U is staffed by James Colvin, M.Div. and Sarah Colvin, M.Div., a husband and wife therapy team.
Their belief is that healing must be holistic. Period. Balance U was created to integrate psychotherapeutic work, dealing with the mind, and energy work taken from a variety of Eastern practices that deals with the body and the spirit. Jim includes interactive talk therapy, energy work, and body listening. Sarah utilizes a psychoanalytic, spiritual and relational approach with the client.

At BalanceU the complimentary and alternative medicine approach addresses the relationship between mind, body, spirit and emotions and how these interact in creating wholeness. Central to BalanceU is the conviction that mind, body and spirit comprise a single dynamic entity. Each of these components influences the rest. Energy medicine combines Eastern and Western concepts in declaring that all living things are comprised of energy. The human energetic system is an organized, intelligent, self-regulating network. When we function optimally, our energetic system flows freely with fullness and vitality. Blocks in this natural flow create the environment for illness and disease. The healing task of BalanceU is to restore and balance the primal energy of the body, mind, and spirit.

Concept and Method In complimentary and alternative medicine the healing process begins with awareness of the interconnection between mental health, physical health and spiritual health. The healing method honors this relationship by actively incorporating the spirit and body in the therapeutic process.The key to healing is the heart. This is the mediator amongst mind, body and spirit, and is the main energy center in Eastern understanding as well. If we have access to the heart and the heart is healed, powerful energy can flow much more easily to the rest of us.

The Healing Partnership The partnership between client and practitioner creates an alliance for healing. Working together, the two formulate a general plan and determine the aim of the therapeutic work.The practitioner also educates the client on self-care exercises and practices which promote healing and growth.

BalanceU integrates the skills of listening, conversation, touch (when client agrees) and intuition. The practitioner weaves these together using the techniques of energetic bodywork, verbal dialogue and spiritual presence.

The Session In the therapeutic session the practitioner listens verbally and intuitively to the client’s health concerns. Verbal dialogue engages the mind and respectful, gentle touch engages the body. Each provides a pathway for understanding the client’s state of health and activating the healing process.
The alternative medicine practitioner may work sitting directly across from the client or may utilize a bodywork table on which the client, fully clothed, lies on the table. The client may be guided in body/mind exercises such as imagery and breath release work or receive healing touch.

The practitioner’s hands are listening tools as well as tools for channeling energy. The first purpose of touch is to contact the body and respectfully listen to the story it reveals. The second is the use of touch as a healing force to: assess the client’s state of health, facilitate the clearing of energetic blocks, increase the flow of vital energy and restore balance to the system. Discovering the body’s story and harmonizing the body’s energy ignites the healing process and the journey towards health.

Marriage Counseling Marriage counseling occurs in a respectful atmosphere of mutual communication on several levels.
Partners learn to listen using their minds and senses. These skills promote emotional contact and mutual healing. They also practice interaction in the session as a bridge to life at home.