1188 Bishop St. Suite #2904, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA
About Our Psychotherapy Practice
Our Mission
To resolve issues rapidly with minimal angst. To facilitate spontaneous behavioral change with minimal client-therapist effort.
To maximize potential, to sprout creativity through healing of emotions and causal traumas.
To eliminate lifelong patterns formed in childhood that govern expectations, goals, mood, behavior. To free the encumbered soul to be all it can be.
To support individuals with cutting edge therapies to expedite their journey toward their goals.
Our Promise
We collaborate throughout your therapy journey. Your input guides therapy technique(s), pace, switching trauma therapies, adding LENS, CBT, EMDR, TFT or EFT.
Compulsions, addictions, low esteem, anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress symptoms, when resolved change life dynamics. Productive behaviors tend to emerge in relationships and situations. Treatment is customized to achieve your goals, to expedite your journey to be who you want to be.
"I did Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for 25 years, Modified Incidental Teaching, Floor Time, cognitive-play therapy for 15 years before moving into rapid resolution trauma therapies and LENS since 2013. Addressing the root of trauma, quickly and effortlessly, frees us from entrenched reactive patterns." - Dr. Shari Au
A cancellation notice is required at least 24 hours prior to your appointment. Same-day cancellation is $45. When we are not given sufficient time to fill a vacancy, waitlisted patients must wait unnecessarily longer, and the hour cannot be billed. A $45 no-show/same-day cancellation fee is texted/emailed.
Our Treatment Focus and Procedure
We use rapid resolution trauma techniques to achieve our goals. Typically, we can resolve lifelong trauma in a session. Progress is expedited by improving brain function with LENS. If one rapid trauma resolution technology isn't effective, we use another: EMDR, BSP, or TFT/EFT resolve causal trauma to eliminate triggers, unpredictable, uncontrollable, overwhelming negative emotions.
We do not work with Personality Disorder or Psychosis. We reserve the right to discontinue services to anyone. Inappropriate, manipulative or abusive behavior, declining to pay their bill, needing long term services, unable to abide by our protocol are some reasons we have closed cases.
By resolving causal trauma, entrenched behaviors and old patterns disappear, allowing you to think through to create more productive, behaviors, effective strategies, versus reacting.
Contained trauma can be resolved with EMDR typically in 1-3 sessions depending on issue complexity and your processing speed. Trauma processing may enliven a past trauma which fades as processing continues. When repressed trauma surfaces, an opportunity for resolution is presented.
Medications: Anxiolytics, anti-depressants, psychotropics, mood stabilizers, bipolar medications, etc. block complete trauma resolution requiring reprocessing trauma. Residual emotions may surface the following weeks requiring 3-4 reprocessing sessions to resolve a trauma when one session is permanent, unmedicated. It can take 2-months for medications to clear from your system.
We communicate predominantly in text, which must be confirmed. Unconfirmed appointments are reassigned. Reminders are texted Sunday/Monday; must be confirmed by Wednesday.
An initial orientation is telehealth. Questions, background, preparing trauma(s) for EMDR, preparing for LENS, determining dx and methodology occur. EMDR, BSP, TFT, or LENS are used in office sessions. We refer clients needing long-term CBT out. We do not provide long term therapy.