About Reach, Inc.

Philosophy

Our philosophy is grounded in the concept that healing occurs within relationship.  We draw from Gestalt Therapy and Experiential Learning as the foundation for change.  Core concepts include “contact”, “here and now”, “personal responsibility”, “active participation”, “self-discovery”, and “learning by doing with reflection”.

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   1. Contact: A word that means being connected to yourself and those around you.  “Being able to ‘show up’ with all of me while you ‘show up’ with all of you, and we paradoxically join while maintaining our separateness.”  This concept allows us to fully be in the moment with each other with all of our emotions, thoughts, sensations, and dialogue creating an opportunity to be ‘seen’ resulting in healing, understanding, and formation of a new relationship.
   2. Here and Now: A phrase that indicates you exist only in the moment, and in this moment you bring your “unfinished business” from the past and your hopes and anxieties about the future.  From this “present” place you are able to access and complete unfinished Gestalts allowing true “contact” to happen and authentic, spontaeneous living to occur.
   3. Personal Responsibility: Existientially we are all responsible for ourselves.  This doesn’t allow space to hold on to “victim” role, to blame others for our life circumstance, to deflect personal action to someone else, to make someone else responsible for our healing, our growth, or our change.
   4. Active Participation: We believe you can not “not participate”.  We believe that you bring whatever resource, motivation, and interaction that you could possibly bring in any given moment.  And you are encouraged to examine areas in your life where you are stuck at an impasse, and challenged and supported to actively engage in your life in a new, novel manner to shift the impasse.  Shaking of the homeostasis allows for the individual to re-organize in a more healthy, functional manner.
   5. Self-Discovery: We believe in providing opportunities, through experiential therapy, that allows for the individual to have “ah ha” moments.  Moments of insight, moments of profound awareness, moments of change, moments of resolve and commitment, moments of brilliant clarity, moments of passionate self-love, moments of reconciliation, moments of forgiveness, moments of growth, moments of connection, moments of …!
   6. Learning by Doing with Reflection: Experience is the best teacher.  To experience is to grow, to learn, and to internalize.  To reflect is to bring the experience alive; to give meaning to, to have context for, and to integrate.  “Tell me, and I will forget; Show me, and I may remember; Involve me and I will understand …”  - Ancient Chinese Proverb

Mission Statement

Reach, Inc. is dedicated to providing therapeutic services for adolescents, families, adults and couples by creating opportunities, through conventional and experiential therapies, that facilitate positive change and growth. 

Vision Statement

Reach, Inc. believes in the inherent healing capacity of each individual, and we strive to offer and facilitate life changing clinical and experiential processes for individuals seeking emotional healing, recovery from unhealthy relationships and addictions, strengthening family or couple systems, gaining life clarity and purpose, or realization of personal potential.