ptsd

7 cool things they don’t teach you at therapy school

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therapy school

What works in therapy?

When I graduated as a psychotherapist in 1990 I had been taught a lot of things that were never much use in therapy – watching out for ‘transference issues’ was one of them. I had also not been taught a lot of things that I really needed to know, but only found out later. So like most therapists I had to improvise in addition to taking a lot more add-on courses. But now I have been doing it for 23 years I have learnt a few things I am going to share with you.

Here is my list of seven things that matter in therapy.

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Removing a traumatic memory

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traumatic memory

Working with traumatic memory

Do you have a troublesome or traumatic memory? Or Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome?

A common belief is that once you have one of these memories then you are stuck with it for life, and little can be done about it.

Recent research confirms that this is not so, and that it is possible to neutralise traumatic memories in therapy. One way to do that is to interfere with the way in which the brain accesses these memories. This is the basis for the EMDR technique which disrupts access to traumatic memories by asking subjects to keep their eyes on a moving finger while trying to recall the trauma at the same time.

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