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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.

Is Telehealth The Future Of Psychotherapy?

By Monica Vandyke Even though the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be slowly fading into the background, safety precautions and physical distancing remain priorities for many. And throughout the pandemic, these priorities have helped to fuel the remarkable rise of telehealth –– with one report at PR Newswire citing a single Medicare provider that saw an […]

Excerpt from Special Messages Book, Chapter Seventeen, Anti-Stigma Cognition for Social Rehabilitation

Philosophy of Reality that Promotes Anti-Stigma Cognition: In order to sell the good parts of cognitive therapy as a tool for social rehabilitation, I have had to create an underlying philosophy about what reality is. This is a model that can come up at various points in individual and group therapy as a means of […]

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 […]

The Average, One-Lining, Love-Liable Narrator

When I profess to love you forever, You should know, cause I already told you That I’m lying—that my love is for never. Now I can see that your attractive look Diminishes as time passes on, first Impressions of your beauty, I know I mistook Because now your pimple skin has pus; Now you hobble, […]