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Re: what type of therapy?Quickie for the CBT peeps » gazo

Posted by Happyflower on March 22, 2007, at 12:34:20

In reply to Re: what type of therapy?Quickie for the CBT peeps » Happyflower, posted by gazo on March 22, 2007, at 12:06:53

Hi gazo,

The best thing is just to ask him about this stuff since every therapist is different no matter what they specialize in. (in training you have to learn most of the ways) CBT is the most used today and is very effective but not for everyone of course.

As far as childhood traumas, a congitive therpist talk about the past because many of your thoughts are because of the past. Many critics of the CBT say that you only work on the surface stuff for short term therapy. Well a lot of times that is all you need if it something minor. But for tramatic things, especially from the past, they do work with you the past. Some of the best cognitive therapy is done with desenalization of the tramatic events. Most cognitive T's are not short term athough they do that too because some problems don't need years to work out. A lot of people are forced to doing short term either because of insurance benefits or lack of funds. But for the stuff you are talking about, I am sure most T's would work with you through all of your stuff. Now many will not do forever therapy because some feel it is very unethical to continue to see a client who is okay mostly (everyone has problems). I know not everyone
agrees with me on this, but it is my views. Besides I think it would suck to be in therapy forever, and I have one of the worst child abuse experiences that my T's has ever seen, and this is an area he specializes in. Even though I will be sad to leave therapy, I am kinda happy about it tooso I can move on with my life and take what I learned from my T and improve my life.
So I guess the best thing to do is to find the right fit for what you think you need and the best way to do that is to ask your T "how " he does therapy.
As far as what EMDR is, check out EMDR.com, which can explain it better than me. It doesn't work with everyone, but it changes my life, and I am so happy I did it.


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