Category Archives: Therapists
I Can’t Trust My Memories
Upon the Sharon Armstrong post from a wee while ago where I talked about NLP and eye accessing cues that can indicate whether a person is remembering or is constructing a memory, I received an email from a reader asking whether there would be a way for her to know whether she is making up what …
Thoughts about DID, Diagnosis, and Parts
You might have noticed that I started telling the story of Anna, a person with multiple parts to her personality. If you want to know how Anna’s parts came to exist, and why, you will find many books, websites, and articles that talk about DID and alternate parts. I am getting a bit tired of all these clever explanations like the one in Wikipedia: “a single person displays multiple distinct identities or personalities (known as alter egos or alters), each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment.
The Leap Of Faith When Starting Therapy
Trusty knew better than to waste time when he traveled to the little seaside village of Shelly Bay. His dark eyes concentrated on the narrow road winding down the hill that enclosed with loving arms what was once a little settlement but had become a township with many new houses, businesses, and shops. He didn’t …
How To Fire Your Therapist
It is not really that unusual that people are not happy with their therapist. The reasons for that can be anything between A and Z. Clients may feel that their therapist is not enough of this or not enough in that. Therapists may feel that their client is avoiding to engage actively in the therapeutic …
Mutual Recognition and Recovery
Grouping Together is understood here as those actions that brought the personality system into a working mode of co-operatively aiming for a mutually desired and agreed upon outcome. Grouping Together was a pivotal step in the COMING TOGETHER stage that directed clients towards integration. It described interactions of self-support where clients did for themselves what …
Absorbing the Transference
One of the main tasks of therapists in trauma treatment is to be available for the client to express their fears, their needs, their hopes, and their disappointment without them being punished or rejected for it. In a metaphorical sense, the therapist acts as the punching bag that assists in strength building and skill development.
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