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Psychological and Family Counseling

Marriage and Family therapists (MFT) are highly trained mental health professionals who being a family-oriented practice to health care. They evaluate and treat mental, emotional and behavioral problems. MFTs believe that individuals and their problems must be seen in context, and the most important context is the family. The discipline has pioneered solution-focused, family-centered treatment. A family's patterns may influence an individual's health condition. MFTs commonly treat:

Families facing mental illness and emotional disorders, such as schizophrenia, depression and eating disorders

Substance abuse

Sexual abuse

Couples in crisis

Children and parents

These are highly skilled people in all aspects

of therapy, and are fully licensed and

skilled to take on tough clinical situations.

Julie L. Yee, MS, MFT

Marriage and Family Counseling

Julie earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology at the University of California at Davis, and obtained her Masters of Science in Marriage, Family & Child Counseling at California State University in Sacramento.She is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and is actively practicing as a psychotherapist in Lodi. Julie has a private practice providing services in the following situations, among others:

Pain and loss

Resolving past traumas

Improving relationships

Socialization groups fostering

positive communication and skills

Coping with depression and domestic violence

Assisting children & adults in restructuring their thoughts and building a healthier sense of self.

Imagery and Meditation

Imagery is a natural thought process using one or more of the five senses. It is the bridge between the conscious and subconscious, helping to connect the body, mind and spirit. Various forms of imagery (such as guided imagery and integrative imagery) as well as meditation, prayer and relaxation breathing can assist you in relaxation. Images form, express and evoke emotions that directly affect physiological responses. A person can be taught to suspend negative images to allow for new images that will enhance health and well-being.

The essence of the mind-body connection is:

Breath focus

Mental focus

Passive attitude toward distracting thoughts

Muscular relaxation.

Meditation is both an ancient spiritual practice and a contemporary mind-body technique for relaxing the body and calming the mind. It elicits a profound form of deep relaxation as a person attempts to focus on one thing at a time. This creates an internal state of relaxed awareness. Your body and mind begin to quiet down.

Healing Touch

Healing Touch is a relaxing, nurturing energy therapy. Gentle touch assists in balancing your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual

well-being. Healing Touch works with your energy field to support our natural ability to heal. It does not require physical contact, but works with the energy fields surrounding the person. It is safe for all ages

and works in harmony with standard medical care.

Benefits can be:

Reduce stress /Ease acute and chronic conditions

Calm anxiety and depression with subsequent well-being

Decrease pain

Enhance recovery from surgery

Deepen spiritual connection

Support cancer, neck and back care

Karen Joranco, RN, CMT,CH-Reiki /Healing touch, Imagery

Karen was certified as a holistic nurse in 2000. Holistic nursing combines traditional medicine with alternative, complementary and integrative modalities.

Karen currently works as a home health and hospice nurse.

She became certified as a healing touch practitioner through the American Holistic Nursing Association in 1997.

Earned a certification as a massage therapist in 2000 through Touching for Health School of Massage with Doty Baker, RN. She specialized in neck, back, shoulder

techniques and Reflexology.

Angel Therapy practitioner with Doreen Virtue, PhD.

Reiki practitioner in 2002

Integrative imagery certificate through American Holistic Nurse Association. Takes yearly continuing education.

Knowledge in herbs, nutrition, tai chi, yoga, meditation, death and dying, mental health, Spirituality in health.

At Holistic Health of Lodi she practices Healing touch, reiki and Integrative Imagery.