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Experiential Psychotherapy Training
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This channel is for educating psychotherapists and coaches on cutting edge modalities and techniques of experiential psychotherapy, including Coherence Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Focusing, AEDP, Process Work, ISTDP, Coherent Narrative Therapy, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting, Hakomi, Emotion Focused Therapy, and more.
Note that this is not the official UA-cam channel for the Coherence Psychology Institute. Instead see ua-cam.com/users/CoherenceInstitute
Note that this is not the official UA-cam channel for the Coherence Psychology Institute. Instead see ua-cam.com/users/CoherenceInstitute
Deliberate Practice for Experiential Therapies - interview with Sophie Cote
More interviews at: tinyurl.com/mrx42mcc
Sophie's Deliberate Practice modules for Coherence Therapy: www.psymomentum.com/deliberate-practice-for-coherence-therapy/
Sophie's Memory Reconsolidation course: www.psymomentum.com/coherence-therapy-course/
Sophie's Deliberate Practice modules for Coherence Therapy are finally available! Now you can practice your therapeutic "scales and arpeggios" a little each week and increase your clinical efficacy. You can buy them all for $90CA here: tinyurl.com/2mrufxew
Two formats are available: practice modules in pdf format, totalling 100 different index cards and a feedback service for your index cards. Modules will be added periodically.
Deliberate Practice Modules in pdf format:
Module 1: Writing index cards in limbic language, clearly indicating the problem, the solution and the means (if applicable).
25 index cards - 17-page workbook.
Module 2 : Master the basic structure of problematic models of reality (schemas) to recognize emerging material and write complete index cards.
25 index cards - 17-page workbook.
Module 3 : Learn to identify the different types of constructs that make up an existential problem, so you can more easily spot areas of juxtaposition in a schema.
25 index cards - 22-page workbook.
Module 4 : Find contradictory material to complete Step C of the TRP.
25 index cards - 20-page workbook.
Feedback service for your index cards
I have noticed that getting retroaction on index cards is not only much appreciated in supervision, but also very rich on a clinical level. I invite you to send me your index cards so that I can review their content. Short feedback (on pre-recorded video) will be sent to you (quality of limbic language, structure, missing elements, angles of juxtaposition).
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Sophie's Memory Reconsolidation course: www.psymomentum.com/coherence-therapy-course/
We now know that is is perfectly possible to transform schemas in psychotherapy, with the therapeutic reconsolidation process, or Empirically Confirmed Process of Erasure. Coherence Therapy is a highly effective way to apply these processes in psychotherapy for transformational change.
The memory reconsolidation process itself is quite simple to understand, but its application in therapy requires several skills. Developing and teaching those skills has been our passion since 2014, and we are so happy to share our expertise with you. Over the years, we have had the pleasure of teaching this framework on both sides of the Atlantic and we published two books (in French) about the Therapeutic Reconsolidation Process and Coherence Therapy (Côté & Cousineau, 2022) as well as the Therapeutic Reconsolidation Process and Schema Therapy (Cousineau & Côté, (June 2023).
Dr Sophie Côté has an advanced certification in Coherence Therapy. Dr Pierre Cousineau and her are both Associate Instructors at the Coherence Psychology Institute.
We have developed several unique learning tools that will hopefully help you grasp the subtleties of the framework in order to enjoy the transformational success you are hoping for in your practice.
Sophie's Deliberate Practice modules for Coherence Therapy: www.psymomentum.com/deliberate-practice-for-coherence-therapy/
Sophie's Memory Reconsolidation course: www.psymomentum.com/coherence-therapy-course/
Sophie's Deliberate Practice modules for Coherence Therapy are finally available! Now you can practice your therapeutic "scales and arpeggios" a little each week and increase your clinical efficacy. You can buy them all for $90CA here: tinyurl.com/2mrufxew
Two formats are available: practice modules in pdf format, totalling 100 different index cards and a feedback service for your index cards. Modules will be added periodically.
Deliberate Practice Modules in pdf format:
Module 1: Writing index cards in limbic language, clearly indicating the problem, the solution and the means (if applicable).
25 index cards - 17-page workbook.
Module 2 : Master the basic structure of problematic models of reality (schemas) to recognize emerging material and write complete index cards.
25 index cards - 17-page workbook.
Module 3 : Learn to identify the different types of constructs that make up an existential problem, so you can more easily spot areas of juxtaposition in a schema.
25 index cards - 22-page workbook.
Module 4 : Find contradictory material to complete Step C of the TRP.
25 index cards - 20-page workbook.
Feedback service for your index cards
I have noticed that getting retroaction on index cards is not only much appreciated in supervision, but also very rich on a clinical level. I invite you to send me your index cards so that I can review their content. Short feedback (on pre-recorded video) will be sent to you (quality of limbic language, structure, missing elements, angles of juxtaposition).
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Sophie's Memory Reconsolidation course: www.psymomentum.com/coherence-therapy-course/
We now know that is is perfectly possible to transform schemas in psychotherapy, with the therapeutic reconsolidation process, or Empirically Confirmed Process of Erasure. Coherence Therapy is a highly effective way to apply these processes in psychotherapy for transformational change.
The memory reconsolidation process itself is quite simple to understand, but its application in therapy requires several skills. Developing and teaching those skills has been our passion since 2014, and we are so happy to share our expertise with you. Over the years, we have had the pleasure of teaching this framework on both sides of the Atlantic and we published two books (in French) about the Therapeutic Reconsolidation Process and Coherence Therapy (Côté & Cousineau, 2022) as well as the Therapeutic Reconsolidation Process and Schema Therapy (Cousineau & Côté, (June 2023).
Dr Sophie Côté has an advanced certification in Coherence Therapy. Dr Pierre Cousineau and her are both Associate Instructors at the Coherence Psychology Institute.
We have developed several unique learning tools that will hopefully help you grasp the subtleties of the framework in order to enjoy the transformational success you are hoping for in your practice.
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Memory Reconsolidation -- an interview with Richard Hill
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More interviews at: tinyurl.com/mrx42mcc www.thescienceofpsychotherapy.net Free webinars from Richard: tinyurl.com/2tn92w5p Primer on Memory Reconsolidation: www.coherencetherapy.org/files/Ecker-etal-NPT2013April-Primer.pdf Richard Hill has emerged from a diverse and fascinating journey to become an innovative speaker on the mind, brain and the human condition. From a satisfying, if not quite f...
Hakomi and Psoma Yoga Therapy -- an interview with Donna Martin
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More interviews at: tinyurl.com/mrx42mcc Books by Donna Martin: • The Practice of Loving Presence: A Mindful Guide to Open-Hearted Relating by Ron Kurtz and Donna Martin: tinyurl.com/4d9dz54m • Seeing Your Life Through New Eyes by Paul Brenner and Donna Martin: tinyurl.com/493n6whd • Embodied Mindfulness: The Hakomi Way: Psychotherapy as Spiritual Practice by Donna Martin: tinyurl.com/3cxk9nya ...
The Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM) -- an interview with Lisa Schwarz
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More interviews at: tinyurl.com/mrx42mcc More info on CRM: comprehensiveresourcemodel.com CRM Book on Amazon - tinyurl.com/mdvej5kh Newsweek article on CRM - tinyurl.com/bdze7eer CRM Podcast - tinyurl.com/3m7rxpwh CRM Demo Session - tinyurl.com/kkxzhkv3 The Comprehensive Resource Model® (CRM) is a neuro-biologically based, affect-focused trauma treatment model which facilitates targeting of tra...
Inner Relationship Focusing -- an interview with Ann Weiser Cornell
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More experiential therapy interviews at: tinyurl.com/ypwfbh46 Podcast version: open.spotify.com/episode/1jz3c7AIA5JbnXnIRBS092 Ann Weiser Cornell offers live, online courses tinyurl.com/yras4yby as well as On Demand courses on Focusing tinyurl.com/4m28yrz4 at her website: focusingresources.com Ann is author of: - Focusing in Clinical Practice tinyurl.com/khejfjur - The Power of Focusing: A Prac...
Internal Family Systems: An Interview with Bonnie Weiss, LCSW
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More experiential therapy interviews at: tinyurl.com/ypwfbh46 Podcast version: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/dashboard/episode/e2a6fcp More info on Bonnie Weiss: www.selfcapacities.com Bonnie can be contacted at bonnieweiss@gmail.com Bonnie Weiss, M.A., LCSW, is an Internal Family Systems clinician, teacher, and supervisor. Her distinctive approach is an emotionally-deep, present-centered, yet act...
Integrating Experiential Psychotherapies: An interview with Juliane Taylor Shore LMFT
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More experiential therapy interviews at: tinyurl.com/ypwfbh46 Podcast version: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/dashboard/episode/e2804o1 Jules’ course on interweaving experiential psychotherapies course is called Neurobiology with Heart: therapywisdom.com/neurobiology-with-heart/ Jules’ course on Memory Reconsolidation, also on Therapy Wisdom: therapywisdom.com/memory-reconsolidation/ Other resource...
Dynamic Emotion Focused Therapy: An interview with Susan Warren Warshow, LCSW, LMFT
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More interviews at: tinyurl.com/mrymdnn2 Susan Warren-Warshow is the founder of the Dynamic Emotion Focused Therapy (DEFT) Institute and author of "A Therapist’s Handbook to Dissolve Shame and Defense: Master the Moment" (Routledge, 2022). DEFT is a shame-sensitive, compassion centered, attachment oriented, inter-subjective, relational psychodynamic, experiential, spiritually integrated, somati...
Schema Therapy and Coherence Therapy: and interview with Pierre Cousineau trailer
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Full interview is at: ua-cam.com/video/A1mnSH52SKo/v-deo.html Other interviews at: tinyurl.com/mrymdnn2 Schema therapy (ST) is an integrative approach that brings together elements from cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment and object relations theories, and Gestalt and experiential therapies. It was introduced by Jeff Young in 1990 and has been developed and refined since then. Schema thera...
Schema Therapy and Coherence Therapy: and interview with Pierre Cousineau
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More interviews at: tinyurl.com/mrymdnn2 Schema therapy (ST) is an integrative approach that brings together elements from cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment and object relations theories, and Gestalt and experiential therapies. It was introduced by Jeff Young in 1990 and has been developed and refined since then. Schema therapy is considered an effective way of conceptualizing and treati...
IFS and IFIO couples therapy - an interview with Liz Phillips
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More interviews with experiential practitioners at: tinyurl.com/mrymdnn2 Intimacy from the Inside Out©, Developed by Toni Herbine Blank, is a model of couples therapy that draws primarily from the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model of psychotherapy, but also includes aspects of psychodynamic theory, systems thinking and neuroscience. It is an experiential model born out of a desire to carry th...
IFS and IFIO with Liz Phillips interview trailer
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View full interview at: ua-cam.com/video/ol08Z4mdLk4/v-deo.html Intimacy from the Inside Out©, Developed by Toni Herbine Blank, is a model of couples therapy that draws primarily from the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model of psychotherapy, but also includes aspects of psychodynamic theory, systems thinking and neuroscience. It is an experiential model born out of a desire to carry the concept...
ISTDP: Interview with Patricia Coughlin - 4 min trailer
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Full interview is at: ua-cam.com/video/2neG-RZ3yL8/v-deo.html Other interviews at: tinyurl.com/mrymdnn2 From ISTDP.com: Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) is a unique form of psychodynamic treatment that facilitates the rapid resolution of a broad spectrum of emotional disorders. It is an evidence-based psychotherapy that is strongly supported by current clinical research studie...
ISTDP and Experiential Psychotherapy - an interview with Patricia Coughlin
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Other interviews at: tinyurl.com/mrymdnn2 From ISTDP.com: Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) is a unique form of psychodynamic treatment that facilitates the rapid resolution of a broad spectrum of emotional disorders. It is an evidence-based psychotherapy that is strongly supported by current clinical research studies. ISTDP interventions are specifically designed to resolve an...
Brainspotting: an interview with David Grand, Ph.D. -- 4 minute trailer
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Full interview is at: ua-cam.com/video/wUBZVKsXV4c/v-deo.html Brainspotting locates points in the client’s visual field that help to access unprocessed trauma in the subcortical brain. Brainspotting (BSP) was discovered in 2003 by David Grand, Ph.D. Over 13,000 therapists have been trained in BSP (52 internationally), in the United States, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia...
Brainspotting: an interview with David Grand, Ph.D.
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Brainspotting: an interview with David Grand, Ph.D.
Shame, Pride and Relational Trauma: an interview with Ken Benau
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Shame, Pride and Relational Trauma: an interview with Ken Benau
Shame, Pride and Relational Trauma: an interview with Ken Benau, trailer
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Shame, Pride and Relational Trauma: an interview with Ken Benau, trailer
EMDR, Trauma and Memory Reconsolidation with Dr. James Alexander - 3 min trailer
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EMDR, Trauma and Memory Reconsolidation with Dr. James Alexander - 3 min trailer
EMDR, Trauma and Memory Reconsolidation - an interview with Dr. James Alexander
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EMDR, Trauma and Memory Reconsolidation - an interview with Dr. James Alexander
Brainspotting demonstration session trailer
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Brainspotting demonstration session trailer
Coherent Narrative Therapy with Gail Noppe-Brandon Interview
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Coherent Narrative Therapy with Gail Noppe-Brandon Interview
Coherent Narrative Therapy with Gail Noppe-Brandon Trailer
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Coherent Narrative Therapy with Gail Noppe-Brandon Trailer
Process Work Therapy with Lane Arye interview trailer
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Process Work Therapy with Lane Arye interview trailer
Process Work Therapy: Lane Arye, Ph.D. interviewed by Vincent Ryan
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Process Work Therapy: Lane Arye, Ph.D. interviewed by Vincent Ryan
Tori Olds Interview Trailer -- "Integrating Experiential Psychotherapies"
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Tori Olds Interview Trailer "Integrating Experiential Psychotherapies"
Tori Olds Interview - Integrating Experiential Psychotherapies
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Tori Olds Interview - Integrating Experiential Psychotherapies
AEDP demonstration session, newly updated with detailed explanations, trailer
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AEDP demonstration session, newly updated with detailed explanations, trailer
Patricia Coughlin ISTDP demonstration session trailer
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Patricia Coughlin ISTDP demonstration session trailer
IFS Session with Derek Scott, Commentary by Liz Phillips, 8min trailer
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IFS Session with Derek Scott, Commentary by Liz Phillips, 8min trailer
After burnout fried my brain, stumbling upon her books felt like Neo finding Morpheus in The Matrix. Suddenly, the world of self-care made sense! Thank you soooo much for sharing your knowledge!!
This! So good. As a therapist, I too have volunteered with colleagues to further their practice. It takes courage and openness and the therapist here in the video was so welcoming and appreciative of that, it made that inter subjective space come to life in a very safe way.
This woman is amazing! Her sensibility and understanding of the clients and their pain is fantastic. I have read her and her husband´s books and they are so clear.
I really apreciate Richard Hill. He has the BEST Projective Identification explanation ever on his Channel. ❤
YES!. This work, this co-journeying with another human is BEAUTY. Thank you Tori!
Hi there … You might consider that many people … likely most … who come here are not therapists but rather folks like me learning new ways to understand resistance to change after years of work to recover from childhood & ongoing trauma. I stumbled on IFS & parts work through Dr. Jacob Ham on UA-cam (amazing!) & Stephanie Woo’s memoir detailing her time as Dr, Ham’s patient. That led me to Richard Schwartz’s teaching to learn the bones of parts work (his book No Bad Parts). The book was ok but a bit abstract imo & kept me too much in my head. So I searched for more on IFS & found Dr. Tori Olds who gives simple, embodied examples I need on her UA-cam channel. Tori’s generous video series on IFS led to her other video series on Coherence Therapy which I’m on the front end of exploring. She is brilliant & presents the technique is such a compassionate & easy to understand way. I’m thrilled I found Dr. Olds I suppose the algorithm put your video in my path. Grateful to expand my small group of teachers, I listened to your video then felt very disappointed to discover the bait & switch tactic midway -> first free then pay to listen to the whole video. Therapists listening here who have a career & paying clients can afford to pay, but many of us cannot. And not having insurance to be able to access a qualified trauma informed therapist often moves us to find information & resources online to help ourselves while saving money to afford therapy. This Aetna is so Wright with privilege which is why I appreciate the generosity of Jacob Ham & Tori Olds who offer solid help free of charge through their online teaching videos. I did learn one thing listening to you, which is to eliminate the word *not* when reframing experiences for using self-guided Coherence Therapy & System Deprivation. My desire is to eventually find a therapist or a group that uses both. Until then, as a trauma impacted adult, I’ll be reading & listening to the work of Tori Olds & her mentor Bruce Ecker. All the best to you!
Lisa, you look beautiful. So happy to see you.
This is great! The positive framing of a new experience is so important to communicate to new folks interested in therapy
Do you work on emotions too because it is connected to memory!?
yes, emotions are a major focus of EMDR. Memories are worked with because traumatic ones entail a range of distressed emotions- these accumulate to constitute a person's burden of distress, which tends to drive their 'symptoms' and dominate their emotional life. Emotions need to be reactivated in order for EMDR to be effective, and they are one of the main indicators that the process has been effective or not. EMDR shares this with other approaches that utilise memory reconsolidation (MR- a form of neuroplasticity)- the distress needs to be felt as a necessary precondition for MR to be initiated. People know that the process has been effective (in part) by what their emotions are telling them.
Would love to have you both on my podcast How to be happier for entrepreneurs ❤
Great stuff!❤❤❤
Maybe It isn't the memory of things past that creates intense feelings in the present. Maybe the feeling is created by mistaking memory, or thinking for that matter, with some thing real. The fear response is appropriate when danger is present when the thing is happening. Once the truth is known; that thinking is an internal description of something that happened, it's not the actual thing, the intense feeling doesn't materialize and if it does it's very short lived; it's not real. The only difference between experiencing intense emotion during a movie and experiencing intense emotion from memories and past events, is that in a movie we know we are experiencing something illusory and transitory and it passes shortly after the scene ends. Thinking and memories are no more real than sound & images on a movie screen.
That is an important aspect of the concept. It is not only the memory of the past, but the associations and connections that are made at the time and then over time when the memory or those things associated with it are recalled. Other dangers, repeated traumas (complex trauma) or other traumas become "consolidated" into the current experience. The juxtaposing truth is exactly as you describe - that the current truth is different from the "associated memory complex". This happens naturally through ongoing experience and through a deliberate therapy process. There are various therapies that can change the connections - time line; EMDR; coherence; several NLP processes; and even CBT in the appropriate circumstances. Mirroring Hands and other implicit processes are also effective in the appropriate circumstances. There are many more actions that can reconsolidate the memory in a way that changes the effect of recall of the past memory, desensitize triggers that associate, and other things that are more than there is space for here. What you have written about above is all spot on. Memory reconsolidation is simply the name given to the neurological process that facilitates the changes of perception and improvement in ongoing experience. As you say, a film is not traumatizing because the person knows it is not true or a current danger. This is a fascinating discussion and there are more interesting things to cover, but that is the gist for now :)
I don't seem to be able to find you on Apple podcast, are you not on there? Is there an easy way to download your podcasts to my phone? I'm kind of a caveman and it would be nice if you were on an easy to use platform, FYI
Thanks for asking! The podcast version of this and other interviews is here: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/experientialpsychotherapy.
Does memory reconsolidation not also require juxtaposition for the memory to become labile, rather than just recall?
Good question. The synaptic connections for the memory become labile on recall. This allows for the current environment to re-consolidate the connection based on the truth or perceived truth of current environment. So the juxtaposing "truth" is about the current environment, not the lability of the memory. It may be that the current environment confirms the existing memory - or even amplifies it with additional disturbance. So, memory reconsolidation is not about troubling memories getting better. Sometimes re-consolidation makes things worse, especially when there is ongoing trauma (complex trauma) or unresolved situations. Grief is another situation where reconsolidation often confirms the sadness and may even amplify it. A positive juxtaposing truth is added through therapies like coherence therapy, but juxtaposing truths are also just the change in the "environment". This can be natural problem resolution. sometimes, just getting older is enough of a change. If you think in the way of systems you are looking to change the initial conditions, or maybe the attractors or some of the organising principles. Juxtaposing truths can come in many ways :)
Yes, many studies have shown that recall (or reactivation) alone does not induce destabilization. Destabilization of the target learning requires a mismatch to what that learning expects, creating a “prediction error” experience. However, different degrees and types of mismatch can do that. What we term a “juxtaposition experience” is a sharp *contradiction* of the target learning’s model of reality, which is a special type of mismatch. Once destabilization occurs, contradiction is then needed for *unlearning* to occur, nullifying the target learning to eliminate its effects entirely (what we term transformational change). The most thorough explanation of all this is in the 2021 article cited below. The 2022 article contains this important clarification: “While destabilized, the target learning may be updated in virtually any way by experiences that deviate from the original learning. The target learning can be strengthened, weakened, or modified in its specific content, or its encoding can be conjoined with the encoding of the memory of a salient new experience…. Thus, by itself the term “memory reconsolidation” denotes not a particular type or degree of change, but rather the fundamental mechanism that destabilizes and then restabilizes (deconsolidates and then reconsolidates) the encoding of a target learning. That deconsolidation/reconsolidation process allows a target learning to be re-encoded and updated but does not in itself cause a target learning to be changed. Change is separately driven by current learning experiences during the reconsolidation window.” Ecker, B. (2021, November 19). Reconsolidation behavioral updating of human emotional memory: A comprehensive review and unified analysis of successes, replication failures, and clinical translation. PsyArXiv. doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/atz3m Ecker, B., & Vaz, A. (2022). Memory reconsolidation and the crisis of mechanism in psychotherapy. New Ideas in Psychology, 66, 100945, 1-11. DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2022.100945 (download: bit.ly/3luadsb)
Awesome podcast episode, Juliane. Wow so fun listening to you and your expertise.
This was excellent!!! After a while therapies all start looking the same. This really clarified how this one is different. Very clear and great examples. Thank you.
ua-cam.com/video/cPiUj5VQGSQ/v-deo.htmlsi=EY7L1QPo0POJzUo_ It is marvelous to talk from a privileged stand point! Congrats to you Ma'am!
This was valuable❤ Thank you so much for this video😊
I think it’s also possible that the crying was a defense against deeper more intolerable feelings, like anger.
"you can't leave a place till you arrive there" might be a new quote for my door, really simple and helpful :)
Excellent, Tori! Thank you!💜🙏💜
Wow! This was beautiful. I listened at Tori Old's recommendation from her open chat last Tuesday. I've been studying Gendlin for about three years now and Tori's manner makes me feel witnessed the way videos of Gene do. Now here, too, I felt a deep response to the two of you speaking of how you are present with your clients. There was a great deal of presence in this video and just in listening I felt spaces opening up -- ways I'd like to be with myself that I haven't experienced yet. Tori is teaching memory reconsolidation right now and I've been having trouble making the leap from theory to practice. You touched on how that can happen without forcing issues -- just letting them arise. I'm sure that will give me a better lens through which to view Tori's next session. Thank you!
Thank you for this amazing content!
Lovely conversation! Thanks for sharing IFS with the world! 🥳
beautiful to see Ann explicate her work with the attentive and receptive Sam. Thank you.
So much to learn here, thank you! Such great information! With so much heart and compassion. "To hold it lightly like a feather" I love this!
I have only just started to practise brainspotting. So amazing. It's like an adventurous journey. I love it being so open, the interaction between equal partners, the field that is created. To me it's one of THE tools for this time on earth. Thank you!
Who was your trainer?
I came to the same conclusion as you did about many disorders being natural/survival reactions to “disorderly” conduct of the trauma giver. I don’t know if I’ve heard this perspective from another therapist before, so thank you!! I tried BSp on myself (I have a masters in it and a couple years experience giving it). I am amazed at the response I had. Is it ok to do it on/with oneself more extensively? I will find a BSp therapist soon, but also like doing self-therapy. Have done it for over 50 years. THANKS again! ❤
Does this therapy approach work better for behavioural symptoms? In social anxiety for eg, would the target symptom be avoidance, or would it be the specific feeling, eg feeling worried about judgment of others?
Coherence Therapy could equally be applied to either the behavioral symptom or the experience. The most important first step is "symptom definition" -- getting crystal clear with the client about what the target of change is for this session, whether that be a change in their behavior or a change in how they experience the circumstances of their life. Which of these it needs to be will be different depending on the situation and the person, and this must be co-determined by both the client and therapist. Then we start discovery work (seeking the unconscious compelling reason for maintaining the symptom) from there.
Mahalo from Maui, where I am a trauma counselor. This was very informative and reassuring as I go into service for wildfire survivors.
Thank you for doing such powerful work and such an important time. Brainspotting is a wonderful resource for trauma work.
Very nice experiential therapy interview
Very informative, thankyou so much for sharing!
Hearing the story of this patient, I got chills, too :) It would be interesting to have a talk about what chills mean :)
Brilliant! We need a summary of the main points
Okay, this is dope! I admire your lack of loyalty to any method, which lets you see past the techniques and models. Thank you for sharing your insight.
thank you so much for this
She’s been SUPER helpful for me and my clients.
How do we define “symptom”? Is a negative core belief such as “I am unlovable” a symptom?
Yes, that would absolutely qualify as a symptom. A symptom is the target of change in therapy.
The examples could have been better ... people develop cptsd ( and consenquential disorders ) because of abuse / neglect by their progenitors behaviours toward them by the way . Rewind technique and the ideal parent figure protocol are amazing tools to generate mismatch and memory reconsolidation ...
Disappointed that this didn’t continue on link provided.
Hi Sarah. As stated in the title of the video, this is a trailer. The link connects you to where you can purchase the full session.
Nice trainers
What if your client asks to stop or if they need to and they do not know to ask. ?
If the client asks to stop then I would think it is the responsibility of the therapist to pause and explore what it is that they are experiencing. There are times when I traumatized Client does not know how to set the boundaries they need and ask to stop. As in the case with other experiential therapies like EMDR, the therapist is always monitoring to make sure the client is not getting overwhelmed. The whole point of these therapies is to bring the client into a more mindful state and not a state of abreaction. So the therapist is always watching for signals that the client is getting overwhelmed or checking out.
Thanks for the excellent and inspiring interview!!
Thank you so much, great explanation!
In Military they also work with resistance
What are you referring to when you say the military works with resistance? Are you a military counselor?
This is not a a special new fast fix concept. It's classic subconscious awareness and for most people, knowing "why" these behaviors were put in place subconsciously to make you feel better for a second, does very little to stop people from putting the addictive food like substance into their mouths. Sorry but it just doesn't. Certain feel good foods are designed to be addictive and you can understand the why all day long..it doesn;t change the behavior for most. Some times treating food addiction as an addiction and work it that way might help.
While many foods are designed to be addictive, those foods are not equally addictive to all people. And many people are addicted to foods that are not specifically designed to be addictive. Likewise, there is quite a range among human beings in terms of how they respond to discovering the deeply held, unconscious drivers of their compulsive eating behaviors. Bear in mind that there is often more than one driver of a compulsive behavior. Sometimes there are many components to it. Coherence Therapy doesn't assume that just because we find one pro-symptom position the behavior will cease. We must discover, integrate, and transform ALL the pro-symptom drivers before the behavior will change. It sounds like you're referring to the fact that simply discovering the drivers doesn't do the trick. That is certainly true. CT is only effective when discovery, integration and transformation of all the pro-symptom material is complete.
Phenomenal interview. Therapists are born or made . The core isolation wound struck a chord given this past few years . Fascinating Thankyou
Love your focus on permission and collaboration .To start intervening and treating someone before gaining consensus on problems and goals, and most important, task, happens all too often and undermines the process.
You know, to my eye, this is just CBT on steroids. Bringing awareness to body sensations helps to make us feel "embodied" and present, but it doesn't actually process trauma. Currently, the only thing that can help - and only sometimes and never without risk - is psychedelics. With early childhood trauma, psychedelics can give your brain a childhood "do-over" that talk therapy just can't replicate.
We agree that this is a more powerful form of therapy than CBT in terms of its ability to go deep and to bring the client into the body. Bringing awareness to body sensations does make us feel embodied and present, which is a necessary but not sufficient step to process trauma. While a lot of interesting things are being done with psychedelic-assisted therapy, it does carry a lot of inherent risks, including actually exacerbating trauma for some people. There are many forms of trauma-specific therapy that are highly effective, including EMDR, EFT, Brainspotting and many others.
there is also EMDR that essentially hijacks the hippocampus to rewire the synaptic patterns that have taken root due to hebbs axiom and amygdala encoding. Its a neurological psychotherapy that I use for my clients
Love this