So what’s the difference when someone says to you “I am going to therapy”, or “I am seeing a counselor” or “I am doing therapy” or yet again “I am seeking counseling”. With over 400 official therapeutic modalities recognised by some federation or other institution just in the field of mental health, there can be no shortness of confusion among...
Read MoreEMDR is a new talk-therapy practice on the block. It is a new flavor of talk-therapy. During an EMDR session you speak with your therapist about particularly traumatic events and then, when you or your therapist sense that you are feeling strong negative emotions (often connected to a traumatic experience), the therapists guides you through a...
Read MoreIf you ever thought of having suffered a relational trauma, particularly in your childhood, entertaining the thought of having been a victim of abuse would have come along with it. Let's have a look at some of the ways in which identifying with the position of being a victim can have negative repercussions on our
Read MoreThat evening then I approached the studio and asked for a brief session I was asked to lie down on a wooden box no taller than a thick tatami mat. Within this bed sized low box were some very powerful speakers, and in essence my body began being stimulated by a sequence of sounds that was pre-programmed. The human touch or element of my first...
Read MoreOf course it will! …if You will! We as therapists are here to support you in your own efforts to understand and make sense of yourself. We are much less here to judge or suggest behaviors, even the obviously self-destructive ones. So the first thing that will help you is You, your will to understand, your will to be honest with yourself, and your...
Read MoreWe continue here from SHE COULDN'T GET OVER HER MOTHER'S DEATH: WHEN SAFETY WAS LOST. T: That’s interesting [whispered]. Just placing your attention near but not in that kind of watery expansive place, not drowning in it, but just sort of standing on the shore, I wonder if you would be willing to listen to it? Listening to anything that has to...
Read MoreThe single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. (George Bernard Shaw) Have you ever spent hours talking to someone and departed not knowing what was it all about? Or, on the contrary, have you ever had a long talk with someone and left with a sense of empowerment and healing? What happened there? What exactly...
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