Dr. Hudson's aim is to help his clients find meaning and purpose in their life and relationships. His interest is in Existential Depth Therapy.
His method of therapy is both humanistic and psychodynamic. He prefers a psychodynamic or psychoanalytic approach, and may use many analytic depth techniques - such as dream analysis and free association. His work is based on those developed by Rollo May, Irvin Yalom, Carl Jung, Erich Fromm, Carl Rogers, Victor Frankl, Ronald Laing, Sigmund Freud, Ludwig Binswanger, Medard Boss, and Thomas Szasz.
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He couples his work in existential therapy with mindfulness practice including mindfulness based therapy and meditation.
When needed he uses other traditional techniques of psychotherapy and mental health counseling, such as those of cognitive behavioral therapy, CBT (Beck), Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, REBT (Ellis), and Gestalt therapy (Perls). He considers himself an integrative counselor using the methods best suited for his clients.
He often uses a combination of psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for marital therapy & couple therapy. He has completed Level I Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy.
Existential psychotherapy is defined by Yalom as “a dynamic approach to therapy which focuses on concerns that are rooted in the individual’s existence.”Dr. Hudson believes that at the root of many of our everyday concerns, such as professional burnout, depression, anxiety, and relationship problems, are four ultimate existential issues — meaninglessness, isolation, freedom and death. How we deal with these concerns is often a source of significant emotional conflict.