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Welcome to the psychotherapy website  of Tim Dreby, MFT. With twenty eight years of experience in community mental health, I work with an array of mental health challenges. If you are looking for safe, nonjudgemental support from a seasoned clinician, you can check out my practice page for more details. I stay current with the latest trauma modalities, am in network with a host of insurance panels, and am practiced at adjusting to meet you where you are at.

The innovation that I am most known for is my work with what I call special messages. These are extraordinary experiences that people must navigate when they are in a state of trauma, “psychosis,” or “mania” that can happen across diagnostic categories. I have run special message groups for sixteen years in which participants learn about special messages in an inclusive and reassuring manner. They are a part of more people’s mental health than many would think.

You can find links to my award-winning book and trainings below that are there to help readers better understand what “psychosis” is and about cultural delusions associated with medicalized words like “schizophrenia,” “schizoaffective,” or “bipolar.” Learn to have supportive relationships with people who have endured “psychosis” so that you can help them make the world a better place. Additionally, you may want to check out my blog for writings to learn more about me, about psychosis, or just to have a good time. Thank you so much for stopping by!

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Across Diagnostic Categories!
Whether you are a sufferer, survivor, provider or loved one, I am almost certain that when we look across diagnostic categories that more people relate to these experiences than you think!

What Will People Think?
When a person first experiences a psychosis or special message emergency, many think a threshold has been crossed from which there is no going back. Often, associates presume the worst possible outcome and go on with their lives as if the sufferer no longer exists.

Treatment?
Often, the focus of treatment is overly protective reality checks and behavioral control. Many experts do not know what to do and utilize an institutional system that does not work and can make things worse. They may vastly underestimate what the sufferer can learn and accomplish.

What Do You Do When Your Loved One Thinks You Are Evil?

When in the throes of what is commonly termed a “psychotic break,” people often become focused on good and evil causing interpersonal friction. Whether you are a parent, therapist, spouse, or a friend or colleague this can translate in you being viewed as evil. Perhaps, this projection is not a comfortable feeling for a supporter […]

All I Ever Wanted, by Larry “Lorenzo” Quan

 was to love from my heart to help out & take part all i ever wanted  was to not be alone not be on my own all i ever wanted  was to be fed and make sure no one goes hungry all i ever wanted  was to be clothed of my nakedness to cover & […]

Special Messages Excerpt: Self-Exploration through Causation2

Following up from my last post that featured political causation ideas, this post features examples of some spiritual causation ideas that I frequently use to understand some of my current message experiences. These  last two posts are from my second to last chapter which documents psychological, trauma, and scientific causation explanations in addition to the […]

In Psychotherapy We Trust: Part One– Decline

Some might point out that my experiences in therapy couldn’t have been so bad if I chose to go into therapy as a profession. Others might say it was my own damn fault I got hooked on the practice! Still others might point out that I have been privileged with the best help that money […]