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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.

A New Definition of Psychosis

Psychosis is an antiquated word that leads to huge misunderstandings that play a large role oppressing a larger and larger portion of the population. For the past nine years I have run professional focus groups, going through the process of listening, exploring, reflecting, writing, seeking feedback and rewriting to get a better definition of psychosis. […]

How to Help Your Loved One Be A Successful Schizophrenic?

How many parents out there would rather learn that their child had developed a life-threatening cancer, than hear that their child carries a diagnosis of schizophrenia? Historically burned-out doctors may be known to make such negative statements about schizophrenia at the time of diagnosis. If they end up being wrong, they simply re-diagnose the sufferer […]

Stigma

Jargonizing the Stigma Concept: Stigma is a mysterious external process that becomes internal that all message receivers face. Though stigma works in many different ways, I think it is particularly astounding and deceptive that it is not considered part of the definition of all forms of schizophrenia disorders. In my mind including it in the […]

Why Eclectic Strategies Are Important When Working with Psychosis

In my experience, people who survive psychosis are very diverse! There are many routes to recovery and many different tools used along the way to get there. Indeed, recovery looks very different for one person than it does for another. For forty years, most everywhere in America there has been one treatment option that is […]