Hill & Kellett - Individual, Group, Couple and Family Therapy (Louisville, Kentucky)

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Hill & Kellett

-- Individual, Group, Couple & Family Therapy --

A map can lead to small forgotten places that are nourished by the sun, wind and rain. A map can also lead to encounters with forgotten places that hold experiences on many levels. Most of all, a map gives us more than one way to reach our destination. Some may be long journeys; others may be brief. Therapy, like a map, can lead to reason and enlightenment in a world of confusion and darkness.

Through the years we have been meeting with people who are confused and in pain. Families who are longing for reconciliation with their loved ones, children (young and not so young) searching for acceptance and recognition, and people driven by compulsions that defy logic as they seek relief from overwhelming anxiety.

We have learned traveling the same road, the mind repeats an idea (sometimes cloaked in symbolism) over and over until there is a new way of seeing, experiencing and resolving the original problem. In a childlike state of being these symptoms may be a way of surviving. However, in adult life the symptoms serve to further injure the real self by creating chaos in one's life.

We take the problems of physical, sexual and emotional abuse seriously. We recognize that people struggle to keep pain from showing on the outside. We see it in people who never quite attain their full potential. We see the look of emptiness on the faces of those who have lost touch with the spiritual in their lives. We also see it in those who appear successful but are constantly striving to achieve more, that is never quite enough. The tragic outcome is a life joyless, empty and roads left unexplored.

We are aware many people have tried to fill the void inside:

with alcohol
with food
with drugs
with another person
with compulsive sexual behavior
with compulsive over-work
with fanatical beliefs or causes.

A map is meaningful when it represents the whole journey. In therapy, a cure is not just the alleviation of a symptom. Otherwise the illusion of a cure can produce the experience of a new rush or high that does not last and may produce just another symptom.

Our treatment goals are to look at the maps people bring to us, to see them as complex, intricate, and unique with many shades and colors, and to help find new, more functional routes. We have noticed that as people come to realize they have alternatives, the sounds of joyful laughter and a sense of peace come together with the strength of understanding.

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This web page was posted on July 02, 1997 and revised on April 05, 2008.

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