Life will most certainly involve twists, turns, and difficulties. How we choose to deal with changes will dictate the quality of our life. In order to better navigate the crest and troughs of life, Dr. Marseille believes that the ultimate goal of therapy is for clients to find meaning and purpose. From this, everything else may fall into place a bit easier. Dr. Marseille is a trained existentialist and positive psychotherapist, a focus on developing meaning helps individuals find life balance in order to thrive in life rather than merely survive it. His approach to therapy advocates a psycho-educational approach to equip clients with the tools to navigate the inevitable negatives in human existence and create a preferred future.
As an existentialist and Positive Psychotherapist, the aim of existentialism is to help clients find meaning in their life and to live life with courage and accountability. The aim of positive psychotherapy is to help the patient and client to see also their abilities, strengths, resources and potentials. PPT is an integrative method, which includes humanistic, systemic, psychodynamic and CBT-elements. It can be described as a humanistic psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is based on a positive conception of human nature.
Humanistic Psychodynamic Method
Cohesive, integrated therapeutic system
Conflict-centered short-term method
Cultural-sensitive method
Use of stories, anecdotes and wisdoms
Innovative interventions and techniques
Application in psychotherapy, other medical disciplines, counseling, education, prevention, management and trainings
Together, this approach helps clients address challenges in their lives while simultaneously finding purpose, meaning and clarity.
Dr. Marseille also uses PPT and existentialism for career and life coaching. This approach is unique because in PPT, the term “positive” is derived from the original Latin expression “positum or positivus” which means the actual, the real, the concrete. Hence, Dr. Marseille’s approach to coaching follows this philosophy. The aim of positive psychotherapy to help clients maximize their abilities, strengths, resources and potentials. Dr. Marseille does this in a number of ways including helping clients:
Create a vision for possible careers to pursue
Develop your forward career plan
Integrate your values into your job strategy
Maximize your worth strategy (compensation, job content alignment, visibility, recognition)
Blend and balance your personal and professional effectiveness
Develop your team and leadership platform and capabilities
Identifying your zone of brilliance as a leader
Identify your purpose and mission in life
Clarify what makes you unique and irreplaceable
Amplify how your life is centered on your zone of brilliance
Understanding the gap between where you are today and where you would like to be, in terms of:
Live from your uniqueness
The terms mentoring and coaching often are used interchangeably, which can be misleading. Though similar in their support, they often involve very different disciplines and approaches in practice. Perhaps a key difference for Dr. Marseille is consulting focuses more on the organization and mentoring on the individual. Dr. Marseille views consulting as an opportunity to take what he has learned in individual and group therapy and create news ways of helping service professionals enhance the interpersonal and professional quality of their business’ and organizations.
As mental health consultant focused on diversity, inclusiveness, life-balance and multiculturalism, his responsibility is to help organizations and business recognize and respond sensitively to any potential concerns regarding how to best mitigate, prevent and pro-actively address the social, professional and emotional issues that inevitably arise within growing organizations and businesses. Since consulting is view as a short-term, finite process unlike mentoring, coaches help working professionals correct policies, processes and behaviors that detract from their performance or strengthen those that support stronger performance around a given set of activities.
Dr. Marseille conducts a number of workshops and presentations designed to meet these organizational challenges including:
Stress Surfing
Effective/Enhanced Communications
Creating Life-Balance
Building trusting relationships & partnerships
Enhanced Cultural Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace
Mentoring consists of a long-term relationship focused on supporting the growth and development of the mentee. Serving as a mentor brings many challenges and rewards, with the best mentors working to shape their mentees into other leaders, rather than just good followers. At Safepaces, we focus on two audiences, mentoring young mental health professionals and connecting youth with mentors. At Safepaces, we view mentoring as an opportunity to help young mental health professionals and urban youth:
Takes a long-range view of their growth and development.
Establish clear rules of engagement within the mentor/mentee relationship
Helps them see their goals but does not give them a detailed map to get there.
Offers encouragement and cheerleading, but not “how to” advice.
If done well, the long-term impact of mentoring can offer life- and career-changing benefits to both parties. For example, Dr. Marseille’s “Let’s Talk” initiative helps bring law enforcement to local urban community schools where students and police officers have an opportunity to learn from each other, exchange ideas, and reduce some of the biases and stereotypes that often complicate this relationship. Mentoring services include:
Linking young professionals and youth with outside mentors
Network opportunities to find potential mentors
Reverse Mentoring Techniques
Group Mentoring
Anonymous Mentoring