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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.

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 […]

The Love She Keeps

But what is this I am seeing in her: Scraggle screaming its way out of her head? Bleach stains on her shirt where colors have bled? If not her stout torso top maimed femurs That wheel-chairs homeless through jungle plunder Living the life that mother proclaimed dead, When mother did lie to asylum heads; Than […]

Multi-Culturism in the Hacienda of Mental Health

Back when I was just a yuppie, I learned a few points of wisdom about working through stigma. I needed mentors to help teach me how wrong stigma is. Now,  I want to pay forward some of  what I learned outside the class room  to some mental health academics and administrators who may not have […]

Media’s Misrepresentation of Criminality and Psychosis: How it Affects Real Life

Guest post written by Samantha Jane From Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho to M.Night Shymalan’s Split, the media has long been guilty of using psychosis as a scapegoat for fantastical criminality. Even among newsrooms and journalists, crimes attached to any iota of mental illness are sensationalized with splashy headlines. This macabre fascination has only worsened the existing […]