How could you describe your shock or the impact of the TRAUMA?
Have you ever felt limited in expressing by using words the shock you have received?
If necessary, I will use therapy cards. The purpose is to externalize the images/metaphors of shock and trauma impact that automatically come up in your brain and are difficult to put into words.
It is a way to take the sensation out of the senses before it is verbalized.
We automatically use images and metaphors negatively. Depression, for example, could be described as a Bad Trance state. This is a state in which our minds are filled with negative images and metaphors. It is our usual practice to generate more and more images and metaphors in a negative direction. Let’s practice with me so that we can use images and metaphors more differently and positively, i.e., we can use our innate skills in a positive direction.
I had been studying how I could reach out to the “imagination” of my clients and met the psychotherapists from Israel, which is a country that has experienced post-war trauma virtually since our rebirth in 1948.
“SEE FAR CBT” and “The Soul Creatures’ Land,” both psychotherapies I learned from Psychotherapists in Israel, use image/metaphor/own imagination!!
What is SEE FAR CBT ?
SEE FAR CBT is a treatment protocol for anxiety and stress related disorders, developed by Prof. Mooli Lahad & Miki Doron.
SEE FAR CBT has modified and adapted elements from several approaches to the treatment of psycho-trauma that have proven successful in changing and bettering the situation of patients. It includes:
- Enhancing the sense of safety and security
- focusing on the “body memory”
- Real world experimentation and gradual exposure
- Reconstruction of the traumatic story using Visual stimuli. Emphasizing the visual cortex based exposure and the use of therapeutic cards for the creation of an alternative story of the trauma.
- Adopting new learning and using reflective thinking and self
SEE FAR CBT http://www.eng.seefarcbt.com/
SEE FAR CBT http://www.eng.seefarcbt.com/
SEE FAR CBT http://www.eng.seefarcbt.com/
SEE FAR CBT is a suggested new protocol for the treatment of anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using creative form treatment based on empowerment through fantastic reality.
The model emphasizes the role of fantastic reality and the use of imaginal re-narration of the traumatic event with the use of cards as a means of externalization or distancing. The treatment protocol incorporates methods of somatic memory reduction as well as CBT elements.
Mooli Lahad., Ph.D., et al. (2010). Preliminary study of a new integrative approach in treating post-traumatic stress disorder: SEE FAR CBT, The Arts in Psychotherapy, Volume 37, Issue 5, November 2010, Pages 391-399
What is The Soul Creatures’ Land?
50 minutes session 190-250 USD