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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
Emotion Focused Therapy – An Interview with Dr. Robert Elliott
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Dr. Robert Elliott, Co-Founder of Emotion Focused Therapy received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and taught clinical psychology at the University of Toledo (Ohio) for nearly 30 years; during that time, in collaboration with Leslie Greenberg and Laura Rice, he developed Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT).
He is Professor Emeritus of Counselling in the School of Psychological Sciences and Health at the University of Strathclyde and where he directed its research clinic and taught counselling research and EFT. He currently lives in Northern California, where he is busy with various EFT-related writing projects as well as conducting EFT trainings internationally and supervising and guiding EFT supervisors. His central interest is the change process in humanistic-experiential psychotherapies.
He is co-author of Facilitating emotional change (1993), Learning process-experiential psychotherapy (2004), Research methods in clinical psychology (3rd ed., 2015), and Developing and Enhancing Research Capacity in Counselling and Psychotherapy (2010), Emotion Focused Counseling in Action (2021), as well as more than 150 journal articles and book chapters. He is past president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and previously co-edited the journals Psychotherapy Research, and Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies.
He is a fellow in the divisions of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association. In 2009 he received the Distinguished Research Career Award of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and the Carl Rogers Award from the Division of Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He enjoys running, science fiction and all kinds of music.
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What Is Emotion Focused Therapy?
Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) has evolved in recent years to have a significant impact on the field of psychotherapy. Its increasing popularity and the growing support for its efficacy with a wide variety of problems have made EFT an important approach to psychotherapy treatment. Emotion Focused Therapy is an empirically-supported humanistic treatment that views emotions as centrally important in human functioning and therapeutic change. EFT involves a therapeutic style that combines both following and guiding the client’s experiential process, emphasizing the importance of both relationship and intervention skills. It views emotion as the fundamental datum of human experience while recognizing the importance of meaning making, and views emotion and cognition as inextricably intertwined.
EFT proposes that emotions themselves have an innately adaptive potential that if activated can help clients change problematic emotional states or unwanted self experiences. This view of emotion is based on the view, now gaining ample empirical support, that emotion at its core is an innate and adaptive system that has evolved to help us survive and thrive.
Emotions are connected to our most essential needs. They rapidly alert us to situations important to our well-being. They also prepare and guide us to take action towards meeting our needs. Individuals and couples benefit from therapy with the help of an empathically attuned relationship with their therapist, who seeks to help them to better identify, experience, explore, make sense of, transform, and more flexibly manage their emotions. As a result, persons receiving EFT treatment become stronger and are more skillful in accessing the important information and meanings about themselves and their world that emotions contain, and become more skillful in using that information to live vitally and adaptively.
Listen to the Podcast Version at: tinyurl.com/yyafzj4b
Dr. Robert Elliott, Co-Founder of Emotion Focused Therapy received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and taught clinical psychology at the University of Toledo (Ohio) for nearly 30 years; during that time, in collaboration with Leslie Greenberg and Laura Rice, he developed Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT).
He is Professor Emeritus of Counselling in the School of Psychological Sciences and Health at the University of Strathclyde and where he directed its research clinic and taught counselling research and EFT. He currently lives in Northern California, where he is busy with various EFT-related writing projects as well as conducting EFT trainings internationally and supervising and guiding EFT supervisors. His central interest is the change process in humanistic-experiential psychotherapies.
He is co-author of Facilitating emotional change (1993), Learning process-experiential psychotherapy (2004), Research methods in clinical psychology (3rd ed., 2015), and Developing and Enhancing Research Capacity in Counselling and Psychotherapy (2010), Emotion Focused Counseling in Action (2021), as well as more than 150 journal articles and book chapters. He is past president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and previously co-edited the journals Psychotherapy Research, and Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies.
He is a fellow in the divisions of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association. In 2009 he received the Distinguished Research Career Award of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and the Carl Rogers Award from the Division of Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He enjoys running, science fiction and all kinds of music.
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What Is Emotion Focused Therapy?
Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) has evolved in recent years to have a significant impact on the field of psychotherapy. Its increasing popularity and the growing support for its efficacy with a wide variety of problems have made EFT an important approach to psychotherapy treatment. Emotion Focused Therapy is an empirically-supported humanistic treatment that views emotions as centrally important in human functioning and therapeutic change. EFT involves a therapeutic style that combines both following and guiding the client’s experiential process, emphasizing the importance of both relationship and intervention skills. It views emotion as the fundamental datum of human experience while recognizing the importance of meaning making, and views emotion and cognition as inextricably intertwined.
EFT proposes that emotions themselves have an innately adaptive potential that if activated can help clients change problematic emotional states or unwanted self experiences. This view of emotion is based on the view, now gaining ample empirical support, that emotion at its core is an innate and adaptive system that has evolved to help us survive and thrive.
Emotions are connected to our most essential needs. They rapidly alert us to situations important to our well-being. They also prepare and guide us to take action towards meeting our needs. Individuals and couples benefit from therapy with the help of an empathically attuned relationship with their therapist, who seeks to help them to better identify, experience, explore, make sense of, transform, and more flexibly manage their emotions. As a result, persons receiving EFT treatment become stronger and are more skillful in accessing the important information and meanings about themselves and their world that emotions contain, and become more skillful in using that information to live vitally and adaptively.
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Hakomi as an Experiential Therapy - An Interview with Georgia Marvin
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More interviews at: tinyurl.com/mrx42mcc Hakomi Education Network (membership site for in-depth Hakomi video trainings): www.hakomieducation.net Georgia Marvin is a Senior Trainer with the international Hakomi Network. She studied with Ron Kurtz, the founder of Hakomi, for 10 years until his death in 2011. Ron Kurtz named Georgia in his will as one of seven “legacy holders” of his work. She sup...
Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy & Memory Reconsolidation - Interview with Michal Jasiński, Ph.D
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More interviews at: tinyurl.com/mrx42mcc Links to individuals and groups referenced in this interview: - the Hermanosis Association: hermanosis.org/en/ - Jules Evans and the Challenging Psychedelic Experiences Project (on adverse effects of psychedelics in therapy): challengingpsychedelicexperiences.com - Fluence (Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy & Integration): www.fluencetraining.com - The ...
Deliberate Practice for Experiential Therapies - interview with Sophie Cote
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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 li...
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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ISTDP: Interview with Patricia Coughlin - 4 min trailer
ISTDP and Experiential Psychotherapy - an interview with Patricia Coughlin
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ISTDP and Experiential Psychotherapy - an interview with Patricia Coughlin
Brainspotting: an interview with David Grand, Ph.D. -- 4 minute trailer
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Brainspotting: an interview with David Grand, Ph.D. 4 minute trailer
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
Anxious When Making Requests - Brainspotting Demonstration
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Anxious When Making Requests - Brainspotting Demonstration
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
Very helpful! Thank you very much! ❤
You remind me of the great George Saint Pierre (GSP)
is there any fuller version of this?
Yes, the full version is available for purchase here ($29): www.experiential-psychotherapies.com/residences/#ctanchor4
great explanation!
glad you found it helpful!
Maybe I m missing some of the sessions but the editing of this video is making it unclear
The demonstration session video alternates between the session itself and the therapist explaining what she is thinking and doing at various key stages along the way. This particular video is just a trailer to give you a sense of the experience of the full video
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... A vivid memory arises ... (the video says) If it was so easy just like that. Memories don't arise in my case
This is truly amazing. I'm not a therapist. I'm a person who has not been able to find a real life therapist who knows about any of this, who, in fact, has been shamed by them. So I'm trying to learn about and this myself. The therapy world is really not very helpful unless you find a knowledgeable and caring man like Dr Elliot.
You moved away quickly from the deer example of maladaptive fear. How would EFT help this deer. That deer has no other emotions, only fear, lives in vigilance. For humans it would be say car accident or dog attack and the following fear stuck forever. There are no other emotions.
One of the best weekend Had breakthrough with Ana on Friday Then remaining work by Philip on Sat. First time I saw my infant self-smiling and sleeping peacefully Like he got what he wanted, he is not replying to me but he is at peace. The resourcing exercise for parents also went well.. Alhamdulillah. Ana said the infant is relieved but your body is still carrying the feeling, then Philip session came specifically for those feelings. I took grey color out, spin it in opposite direction and brought it back to my chest. And this worked….:) Alhamdulillah… as I learned earlier, the simple imagination that ur psyche creates within u does dramatic changes in perception world the world of consciousness, it demand ur authenticity though while doing the emotion focused therapy.
2:31 1-4 quadrillion synaptic connections
So much wisdom in this one. Keep them coming! I've been reading Remembering with emotion by Steven B Sandler and would be delighted to listen to an interview with him.
When your latest book be published in English?
This is very helpful, thanks very much 😅
Excellent thanks very much 😅
Your series of four lectures is brilliant. What I do not understand -- and this goes for all science - is how slow some things are to 'get out there'. After ten years there are just 13k views. This is not okay. Best wishes, Robert Morecook PhD Houston
Thanks Robert! Glad you found it helpful. I originally created this series with the intention of showing it to 36 participants of a workshop, so the fact that 13k people have watched all four episodes is just fine by me! If you haven't already found experiential-psychotherapies.com, there is more material of mine on the Coherence Therapy page.
Previewing Bonnie's personality, teaching style, I already have her book and the IFS method is congruent with my experiential style. Now I believe I may do the 8 week training she's providing online!
So valuable - thank you.
Totally enjoy your recommendations not to get stuck on any one way of approaching this material. It is quite clear that we are all interacting with the very same fundamental brain processes and they are being presented in many different explanatory ways. Getting stuck in any one perspective (even if its very effective) limits the opportunities to learn more as the story emphasizes certain aspects and misses other aspects. Essentially, the particular perspective is not the whole story, there is always more to understand and getting stuck in that perspective limits the ability to see beyond that limited perspective. In all of this MR rocks as a foundational phenomenon.
I learned the swallow is a sign of autonomic nervous system relaxation?
Perhaps you talk in another video about situation of past rape and loving partner unable to help. Same with therapeutic relationship. Just because there is one person / situation that juxtaposes, it will not mismatch as likely there is another emotional truth: there still might be another rapist out there, just because my partner is not, it does not change this possibility at all. I don't see beliefs as boolean entities: I am good enough or not good enough at all. In math there are so called fuzzy sets. They describe a spectrum of possible values: I am quite unlovable, I am lovable fifty fifty, etc. Same in life - some of my friends don't like me but many do. How one would find mismatch then? Much appreciated
Does this technique work for men?
Thank you so much, Niall and Michal! Wonderful information about what is a long-known mode of healing that is newly (re-)emerging in more mainstream circles, bringing such powerful potential for healing and growth!
So Valuable ... Thank you.
Thanks for this wonderful video, Niall and Michal! What a gift to our community of learners and memory reconsolidation enthusiasts :) I can't wait to see what kind of results are possible with the addition of identifying and integrating schemas ahead of time. Very promising...
This information is incredibly valuable. Wouldn't it be lovely to see this course taught in high school classrooms? People need mental healing majorly in the year. 2024. Thanks so much for putting this together!
I love the office...common environment of creative mind :)
Happened upon this video through UA-cam links that I landed on researching coherence therapy after taking the mirroring hands course so this is full circle for me
this is youtube
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😊
"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!