Change Your Story, Change Your Life!
Discover and Create Your Healing Metaphors
Restoring Creativity, Wellness, and Balance
Nancy Scherlong, LCSW, PTR, CJT, M/S ~ In Private Practice in Mt. Kisco, Westchester County, NY, and Ridgefield and Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT
Nancy Scherlong, LCSW, PTR, CJT, M/S
I’m Nancy, and I can help you reach your goals.
I am a writer, coach and therapist and work with people of all ages, individually in couples or in groups and specializing in adolescence through adulthood. Many of my clients tend to be artists, healers, educators, administrators and other psychotherapists.
Though it’s true I have a lot of training in identifying problems, that won’t likely be the main reason you’ll want to work with me. My approach is different, supportive, focused on your strengths, solution- focused and grounded in positive psychology.
I use an eclectic blend of mind-body techniques, expressive therapies, and meditative and biofeedback practices to teach each person coping tools unique to his or her circumstance.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Wellness/Creativity Coach, Workshop Facilitator, Writer and Registered Poetry/Biblio Therapist and Mentor/Supervisor based in NY and CT.
Many Services via Phone/Video
National and international workshops available.
- Tired of feeling stuck?
- Want to try a different approach to solving your problems?
- Overwhelmed?
- Bothered by repetitive thoughts or worries?
- Perhaps you want to feel healthier, happier with your life or be more fulfilled?
- Do you enjoy using writing or the arts to express yourself?
- Want to re-discover your dreams?
Together we will design a plan
that will help create
positive and lasting change!
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Increase your wellness
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Enhance your creativity
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Improve your life satisfaction
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Deepen your relationships
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Explore your career options
Feel Better with
Writing and Experiential Methods
Why writing or acting? Creativity and flow are your natural state.
Research shows that putting your struggles on the page or enacting options brings perspective and objectivity and usually lessens symptoms. We often speak in the language of metaphors, so much so we may not even realize it.
The language that we choose matters. Have you ever said “I feel tongue tied,” “bottled up” or “free as a bird?” Your mind, body and spirit are not separate – true healing takes place when you create, express and transform your personal metaphors, either in action or in writing.
How you view and narrate the “story” of all that has happened to you influences how you live your life. Change this story and these metaphors, and you will also change your life!
I will teach you corrective gateways to transformation, to seeing yourself and your situation differently. Then you can move forward in a new way.
I use a variety of techniques to help you realize your full potential, such as:
- Wellness, creativity or life coaching to propel you into active life change
- Expressive Therapies – use your journal or the arts to explore solutions
- Understanding the different parts of yourself through IFS (internal family systems)
- Being aware and tracking your physical symptoms and their association with trauma/stress (Somatic Experiencing)
- Understanding why your mind and body still remembers the past and how to shift memories (EMDR)
- Learn to relax your body through hypnosis and biofeedback techniques (holistic psychotherapy)
- Act out situations to get a different perspective (action methods of psychodrama)
- By bringing mindfulness to the moment and/or body sensations, you can reduce your stress response or trauma-related symptoms
Together we will determine which tools are most helpful for you.
