Nachum Wasosky, CMFT Adventure-Based Therapist
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What is Adventure-Based Therapy?
Adventure therapy is a powerful form of hands-on and outdoor-based experiential therapy that inspires emotional healing. Nachum utilizes physical activities such as, mountain biking, hiking, sports, and general exercise as alternative tools to interact with and build a bond with his clients. Adventure-based therapy provides opportunities for growth and self-understanding. Nachum specializes in working with adolescent and youth.
Why does Adventure-Based Therapy Work?
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Studies show that spending time in nature decreases levels of stress, depression and anxiety. Adventure-based therapy allows individuals to experience the therapeutic properties of nature. Nature can inspire newfound tranquility and positivity. It encourages more positive social behaviors and helps one focus on something bigger than themselves. Furthermore, unplugging from technology and spending time in nature helps regulate mood.
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Adventure-based therapy is successful because it removes individuals from mental health settings and allows them to reflect on themselves and their triggers in a more natural, less stressful way. Adventure-based therapy patients partake in goal-based activities that provide insight into their unique mental traits and challenges. In addition, Adventure-based therapy promotes emotional healing by removing individuals from environmental factors that may be contributing to their issues and or helping them avoid confronting their challenges.
Conditions I Treat
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Anxiety
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ADD/ADHD
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Low Self-Esteem
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Social Challenges
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Unhealthy Habits
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Family Discourse
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Family Dysfunction
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Sibling Discourse
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General Lack of Happiness with Life
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Questions Concerning their Purpose and / or Relationship with G-d
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Impulsivity
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Sleep Disruption
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School Performance
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Defiance and Oppositionality
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Substance Abuse
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Post Traumatic Stress
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Disordered Eating
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& More
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Adventure-based therapy provides participants with alternative ways to better understand their thought process, behaviors, and coping strategies. Often an individual’s approach to solving problems in Adventure therapy will mirror their coping strategies they use in other settings.
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For youth and teens, Adventure-based therapy offers an opportunity to take a more active role in their treatment. This helps them feel a sense of empowerment, self-awareness and responsibility.
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Adventure-based therapy improves one’s understanding of risk and consequences, and his or her willingness to confront challenges.
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Adventure-based therapy naturally promotes important social skills.
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Adventure based therapy provides the opportunity to be physically active. Exercise is vital for mental health.
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Adventure-based therapy encourages self-reflection. The activities that the patient engages in relates to and triggers past experiences; this makes it easier to reflect on his or her mental health challenges.
About Nachum
Nachum Wasosky is a seasoned professional working with hundreds of youth and their families for over twenty years. He is a Certified Marriage and Family Therapist, holds a Rabbinical Degree focusing on family life, is an avid athlete, and a certified Mountain Bike Instructor. Nachum lives in Ramat Bet Shemesh Alpeh with his wife of 20 years and his five children who range in age from 10 to 19.
Nature is Therapy
Contact
Email: adventuretherapyisrael@gmail.com / Tel: +972.52.772.3500