Summary: Things happen in life that negatively change your beliefs and perceptions about who you are. As a result, it can become difficult to achieve your desires and goals. On this episode of CHANGING DIRECTION psychotherapist, Tom Cloyd, joined me to discuss the impact of identity on your life, plus how to master the process of self-selecting your identity to reclaim it. During our conversation we covered: defining identity how your identity is created outside of your control how you can reclaim control and self-select your identity how past events impact your present and future identity four steps to consciously creating your identity after the impact of trauma We covered a lot of ground with plenty of ideas that you can implement today to begin redefining who you are to create the change you choose! MEET MY GUEST: Tom Cloyd specializes in psychotherapy of trauma and dissociative disorders. His focus is work with anxiety, depression, and couples-in-crisis. He uses evidence-based, “best practices” approaches, and often uses ego-state psychology to augment and facilitate these approaches. His focus is on treatment of adults, but is experienced in treating adolescents and children as well. Having recently moved to Utah, he will be re-opening his private practice in Cedar City & St. George in late Winter of 2013. Tom has a particular interest in under-served and neglected populations affected by psychological trauma. He has identified what has to be the largest such population, found in every country in the world, and routinely ignored. They are all but invisible, and their neglect has grave consequences. He is presently designing an intervention demonstration program, to be implemented locally, where he lives, to show that initiating a reversal of this problem is within the reach of most local areas, certainly in first world countries, and possibly in second and third world countries as well. Formerly Director of Admissions at Pacific Gateway Hospital (Portland, Oregon), and Program Manager & County Designated Mental Health Professional (CDMHP) at Grant Mental Healthcare (Grand Coulee, Washington), Tom has also been a subcontracted mental health services provider to agencies on the Colville Indian Reservation (WA), the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation (ID), and the Lummi Indian Reservation (WA). He is the founder/moderator of the EMDR Resource Cooperative Internet Discussion List (for professionals), and of the Google+ Trauma and Dissociation Education and Advocacy Community and website. You can find his professional website HERE.
