Therapeutic Modalities
Insight-Oriented Therapy
Insight-oriented therapy helps people look at the underlying “cause” or triggers to problems. This understanding opens the door to changing what this meant to you and the reality that you developed because of it. Insight-oriented therapy also works on the assumption that the better you know yourself, the better you will thrive in the world. The process strives to teach you how and why you function in the ways you do, and to clarify your motivations. It gives you self-knowledge. Most of all, it gives you freedom.
When you have freedom, you have power and a greater range of choices available to you in any given situation. Insight allows you to break free from old habits and patterns of behavior, letting you choose new ones as you see fit. The goal of insight-oriented therapy is self-knowledge and freedom at the deepest level.
Insight-oriented therapy helps people look at the underlying “cause” or triggers to problems. This understanding opens the door to changing what this meant to you and the reality that you developed because of it. Insight-oriented therapy also works on the assumption that the better you know yourself, the better you will thrive in the world. The process strives to teach you how and why you function in the ways you do, and to clarify your motivations. It gives you self-knowledge. Most of all, it gives you freedom.
When you have freedom, you have power and a greater range of choices available to you in any given situation. Insight allows you to break free from old habits and patterns of behavior, letting you choose new ones as you see fit. The goal of insight-oriented therapy is self-knowledge and freedom at the deepest level.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is a remarkably powerful way of working with what is "stuck" within. The effect is to release what is not authentic to one's self. What's left is the shining, true self that was there all along.
EMDR is a research-based therapy that can resolve very old trauma, and help address the roots of depression, anxiety, grief, panic, and other negative emotional states. The client recalls a distressing memory, while the brain’s hemispheres are stimulated bi-laterally (through sequential back-and-forth eye movements, or tapping on the knees or hands in sequence). The psyche’s natural processing abilities are re-awakened by the process.
EMDR research studies have consistently shown it to be a very effective treatment for serious trauma—experiences that, left untreated, can develop into post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). EMDR has also been shown to address issues such as early childhood deprivation, ongoing anxiety and depression, phobias, and performance issues.
When a person experiences great agitation, the brain does not integrate information the way it does in non-stressful situations. Such experiences, therefore, get “stuck” in the mind, and feel like a replaying of the original event. Unless addressed, this can lead to a build up of beliefs and behaviors that stifle a person’s creativity and ability to freely relate to others. Lives can become organized around the trauma.
With EMDR, the natural process of assimilating experience seems to be “jump started,” and what did not happen can now be re-processed relatively quickly. The client can integrate their memories, leading to a profound relief, in which the event will be remembered, but without the painful, repetitious quality of it.
Clients find that in following a memory back to its root, while applying EMDR, the distress arising from that stuck memory truly lessens. The experience integrates with the rest of the psyche. People often report that, when trying to recall the distress after a session, it feels finally in the past—something that did occur—but which no longer has the same relevance to current life.
EMDR is a remarkably powerful way of working with what is "stuck" within. The effect is to release what is not authentic to one's self. What's left is the shining, true self that was there all along.
EMDR is a research-based therapy that can resolve very old trauma, and help address the roots of depression, anxiety, grief, panic, and other negative emotional states. The client recalls a distressing memory, while the brain’s hemispheres are stimulated bi-laterally (through sequential back-and-forth eye movements, or tapping on the knees or hands in sequence). The psyche’s natural processing abilities are re-awakened by the process.
EMDR research studies have consistently shown it to be a very effective treatment for serious trauma—experiences that, left untreated, can develop into post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). EMDR has also been shown to address issues such as early childhood deprivation, ongoing anxiety and depression, phobias, and performance issues.
When a person experiences great agitation, the brain does not integrate information the way it does in non-stressful situations. Such experiences, therefore, get “stuck” in the mind, and feel like a replaying of the original event. Unless addressed, this can lead to a build up of beliefs and behaviors that stifle a person’s creativity and ability to freely relate to others. Lives can become organized around the trauma.
With EMDR, the natural process of assimilating experience seems to be “jump started,” and what did not happen can now be re-processed relatively quickly. The client can integrate their memories, leading to a profound relief, in which the event will be remembered, but without the painful, repetitious quality of it.
Clients find that in following a memory back to its root, while applying EMDR, the distress arising from that stuck memory truly lessens. The experience integrates with the rest of the psyche. People often report that, when trying to recall the distress after a session, it feels finally in the past—something that did occur—but which no longer has the same relevance to current life.
Energy Psychology
Thought Field Therapy (TFT)
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
TAPAS Acupressure Technique (TAT)
Thought Field Therapy (TFT)
- Thought Field Therapy (TFT) is a sequential tapping procedure discovered by Dr. Roger Callahan, which uses acupressure points to balance the body's energy systems, allowing a person to quickly eliminate negative emotions. TFT can assist a person with love pain, issues around weight loss, smoking cessation, phobias, and much, much more.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
- The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a form of psychological acupressure, based on the same energy meridians used in traditional acupuncture. Simple tapping with the fingertips is used to input kinetic energy into specific meridians on the head, chest, and thighs, while a person thinks about his or her specific problem (traumatic event, emotional pain, physical pain, etc.).
- This combination of tapping the energy meridians and voicing positive affirmations works to clear the "short-circuit"—the emotional block—from your body's bioenergy system, thus restoring the mind and body's balance.
TAPAS Acupressure Technique (TAT)
- Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT) is a gentle healing process developed by acupuncturist Tapas Fleming. TAT uses a light placement of one’s own hands to acupressure points on the head. Through a series of additional steps, the technique allows for relaxation and release of those things that have kept us from joyful living.
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- HENRY MILLER
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© 2023 Susan Shanley
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