Therapy.
I was thinking about how there are many forms of therapy that can assist someone with not only an eating disorder but any other mental health issue. Sometimes it takes a while to find a therapy that helps.
I myself have tried numerous therapies:
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy gets its name from one of its core messages: accept what is out of your personal control, and commit to action that improves and enriches your life.
The aim of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is to maximise human potential for a rich, full and meaningful life. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy does this by:
The aim of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is to maximise human potential for a rich, full and meaningful life. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy does this by:
- Teaching you psychological skills to deal with your painful thoughts and feelings effectively - in such a way that they have much less impact and influence over you (these are known as mindfulness skills).
- Helping you to clarify what is truly important and meaningful to you - i.e your values - then use that knowledge to guide, inspire and motivate you to change your life for the better.
Affect Regulation Therapy:
Affect Regulation Therapy is proven to provide rapid results, including reduced stress levels, and improvements in mood. These results raise client commitment to therapy. Using a combination of standard psychotherapy methods along with body movement and sensory activities, Affect Regulation Therapy improves client outcomes. Through Affect Regulation Therapy clients learn to regulate mood and control positive and negative arousal states using their most natural emotional processing medium, the body based self system. You’ll see immediate and sustained results in clients’ abilities to control affect states and achieve situation appropriate emotional responses.
The advantages of Affect Regulation Therapy can raise client commitment to therapy and to Change. Advantages include:
The advantages of Affect Regulation Therapy can raise client commitment to therapy and to Change. Advantages include:
- Fast and observable improvements in mood and immediate stress relief.
- Relaxing user friendly methods and effortless change.
- Goal setting and contracting for a set number of sessions.
- Client education protocols.
- An information guide for clients about the psychotherapy process.
- Self help features: ART offers practical, easy, effective and well liked self management skills for clients to use at home.
Client Centred Therapy:
Client-Centred Therapy was developed by Carl Rogers in the 1940s. It is a non-directive approach to therapy, "directive" meaning any therapist behaviour that deliberately steers the client in some way. Directive behaviours include asking questions, offering treatments, and making interpretations and diagnoses. A non-directive approach is very appealing to many people, because they get to keep control over the content and pace of the therapy. The therapist isn't evaluating them in any way or trying to "figure them out." CCT is about guiding the person to help understand themselves and inevitably, help them come up with their own solutions to problems. It might seem that CCT therapy lacks direction -- there are lots of questions, but not a lot of counsellor-provided answers. The idea is to lead the person to figuring themselves out and help them come up with their own solutions. The counsellor’s chief "work" in this type of therapy is to ask the right questions. It's very similar to the Socratic Method -- a way of teaching that questions are answered with questions in a way that empowers the student to arrive at the answers themselves.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy:
Cognitive therapists tend to focus on specific problems. These therapists believe that irrational thinking or faulty perceptions cause dysfunctions. A cognitive therapist may work with a client to change thought patterns. This type of therapy is often effective for clients suffering from depression or anxiety. Behavioural therapists work to change problematic behaviours that have been trained through years of reinforcement.
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy:
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy is a type of treatment that combines cognitive and behavioural therapy. There are four modules in DBT group training: Core Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills, Emotion Modulation Skills, and Distress Tolerance. This type of therapy is used in group settings for those diagnosed with a variety of mental health illnesses.
Dramatic Psychological Storytelling: ( I have also had the opportunity to teach others )
Dramatic Psychological Storytelling is a dynamic vehicle for personal, group and organisational development created by Rob Allen and Nina Krebs. This change model, expanded from the authors' earlier work in Psychotheatrics, includes expressive art forms in addition to drama and focuses on a search for meaning.
Dramatic Psychological Storytelling offers a process that embraces lived experience as it is perceived by those involved. Both those active in the process and spectators gain increased awareness of the ways in which people are shaped by their cultural, historical and current experience, and can glimpse personal story and the stories of others within the matrix of a greater story. The Dramatic Psychological Storytelling process promotes shared meaning, empathy, tolerance and understanding as it encourages personal growth and transformation. Dramatic Psychological Storytelling is based not only on the power of story, but on coherent psychological theory and experience. Opening the process with expressive art invites participation as people explore favourite songs, movies, or other art interests as reference points.
Dramatic Psychological Storytelling offers a process that embraces lived experience as it is perceived by those involved. Both those active in the process and spectators gain increased awareness of the ways in which people are shaped by their cultural, historical and current experience, and can glimpse personal story and the stories of others within the matrix of a greater story. The Dramatic Psychological Storytelling process promotes shared meaning, empathy, tolerance and understanding as it encourages personal growth and transformation. Dramatic Psychological Storytelling is based not only on the power of story, but on coherent psychological theory and experience. Opening the process with expressive art invites participation as people explore favourite songs, movies, or other art interests as reference points.
Psychoanalytical Therapy:
Psychoanalytic Therapy is one of the most well-known treatment modalities, but it is also one of the most misunderstood by mental health consumers. Founded by Sigmund Freud, psychoanalytic therapists generally spend time listening to patients talk about their lives, which is why this method is often referred to as "talk therapy." The therapy provider will look for patterns or significant events that may play a role in the client’s current difficulties. Psychoanalysts believe that childhood events and unconscious feelings, thoughts and motivations play a role in mental illness and maladaptive behaviours.
Somatic Therapy:
Somatic or Body Oriented Psychotherapy, encourages the “communication” of experience between the mind and the body, allowing greater understanding of the issues and enabling sustainable movement towards greater health and well being.
Somatic Psychotherapy achieves this by exploring your presenting challenge and looking at the connection between the narrative and history behind it. The therapist looks at your breathing patterns, physical sensations - discomforts or limitations and then supports you in developing greater awareness of these connections between your body/mind. With this evolving awareness, it may be appropriate to use Integrative Bodywork to further examine “bodily-held stories”, and how these are held within the body. This may also include exploring any existing injury or emotionally based trauma.
The wonderful aspect of using bodywork, is that it potentially opens other doorways of understanding allowing greater awareness of the issues. This, of course, can enable a greater range of choices in life - choices that before, may not have seemed imaginable or possible!
Integrative Bodywork is only ever used with your permission, the boundaries outlined and understood and an awareness of what is being explored. It is very gentle, NEVER intrusive and very respectful.
Our bodies are miracles of healing. By supporting you through the exploration and expression of these deeper understandings, Somatic Psychotherapy can facilitate this healing. With this greater insight comes aliveness, creativity, self regulation and a new-found self awareness that enables you to deepen your personal relationships and helps forge stronger relationships with others.
Somatic Psychotherapy achieves this by exploring your presenting challenge and looking at the connection between the narrative and history behind it. The therapist looks at your breathing patterns, physical sensations - discomforts or limitations and then supports you in developing greater awareness of these connections between your body/mind. With this evolving awareness, it may be appropriate to use Integrative Bodywork to further examine “bodily-held stories”, and how these are held within the body. This may also include exploring any existing injury or emotionally based trauma.
The wonderful aspect of using bodywork, is that it potentially opens other doorways of understanding allowing greater awareness of the issues. This, of course, can enable a greater range of choices in life - choices that before, may not have seemed imaginable or possible!
Integrative Bodywork is only ever used with your permission, the boundaries outlined and understood and an awareness of what is being explored. It is very gentle, NEVER intrusive and very respectful.
Our bodies are miracles of healing. By supporting you through the exploration and expression of these deeper understandings, Somatic Psychotherapy can facilitate this healing. With this greater insight comes aliveness, creativity, self regulation and a new-found self awareness that enables you to deepen your personal relationships and helps forge stronger relationships with others.