Published: December 2020, Issue 38


Keywords:
Susan Swim, David Abramovich, Emma Wilson, Megan Kadler, Momo Takeda, Now I See A Person, Equine, Community, Family Therapy, Chronic Mental Patients, labels, diagnoses, medication.

Dr Susan Swim

David Abramovich

Emma Wilson

Megan Kadler

Momo Takeda

Susan Swim, PhD, Executive Director Now I See A Person Institute. I have almost four decades of helping to serve the most hopeless of populations, especially those clients and their families who have lost all hope and have not found success in previous therapies, hospitals, medical regimes, or institutionalizations. My passion is to aid our field to see people as people suffering through trauma and not bound to it and that diagnosis and labels are not a person. These are social justice issues. We find with the client being a collaborative partner for change and honored for their resiliency and strengths that up to 98% of our clients (qualitative research) transform along with their families.

David Abramovich, JD, MA, MFTA, Faculty Now I See A Person Institute. My mission is to help populations who have not been heard, but have been labeled and help these populations be given the chance to be seen as a person and for these lenses to become inter- generational.

Emma Wilson Emma Mackintosh, MSW, Faculty Now I See A Person Institute. I was born and raised in Northern Ireland, a divided society where I observed oppression and developed a strong sense of social justice values. At Now I See A Person I am able to apply, focus and grow these values for the people we relate with.

Megan Kadler, MA, MC, Faculty Now I See A Person Institute. My journey to Now I See a Person Institute (NISAPI) began with an inquiry into the existence of alternative perspectives to prevailing medicalized and diagnostic approaches for being with people in therapy. My passions include seeing people and symptoms as relational and in discourse, not bound to a diagnosis or label, and not treated as a diagnosis or label to heal and transform.

Abstract

This article is a kind of synopsis of Colleen’s therapy. It really reflects the heartfelt pain this family endured in attempting to heal for a decade. The residential care center she was at is now being protested to close with the help of former celebrities who were "sent" there.