Bart
Walsh, MSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Diplomate in
Clinical Social Work. He has practiced in the Portland area since
1987, maintaining the highest professional ethical standards. He
directs Affinity Counseling and Hypnosis
as well as The
Milton H. Erickson Institute of Portland.
Bart's
orientation to counseling, psychotherapy and hypnotherapy
is
essentially a strengths perspective
with
a solution focus. The strengths
perspective
acknowledges all the strengths, resources and instinctual imperatives
within an individual that have helped the individual get to the
present moment. The strengths perspective
helps scan for the resources needed to resolve or modify the concern
that is brought to treatment.
The
influences that guide Bart's work and contribute to the strengths
perspective
have been derived from studies, experience or training in: systems
theory, Jungian therapy, cognitive therapy, object relations theory,
Ericksonian hypnotherapy, hypnosis, breath work, narrative therapy,
ego-state therapy, solution focused therapy, music therapy, eye
movement desensitization and reprocessing and more.
In
addition to direct clinical work with individuals, couples and
families, Bart offers hypnotherapy training to qualified
professionals. Bart's articles have been published in The
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis.