INTENSIVE, SHORT-TERM, DYNAMICS-BASED PSYCHOTHERAPY

The Behavioral therapies, CBT, DBT and IPT, help you challenge mistaken concepts and change maladaptive behaviors. Insight oriented psychotherapy most closely resembles the therapy people see in the movies -- "talk therapy." Supportive Psychotherapy supports people under stress. ISTDP is an intensive approach to reprocessing psychological issues.

You and your therapist work to restore bonds-the bonds of attachment. Your therapist helps guide you through the moment to moment experience of your emotions, helping you challenge your defenses and pressuring you to feel what you have had difficulty experiencing.

The Reparative Dynamic

Identification of Therapeutic Task Resistance

Overcoming Therapeutic Task Resistance

Creating an Intra-psychic Crisis

Linking the Past and Present

Working through the Core Emotions

Termination (Debriefing and stage setting for the next session and/or life tasks).

Our aim is to eliminate anxiety over trauma-based emotional experiences so you can stop avoiding (or being preoccupied with) your emotions, and experience them in a safe environment.

You will learn tools of self-regulation that break the bond to the past and your painful experiences. As you learn that you have control, you will feel safer in establishing real relationships.

You will be encouraged toward emotional experiencing, visualization, and verbalization of feelings. You will visualize traumatizing figures and the formerly traumatized self in an effort to consolidate therapeutic state changes to long lasting trait (symptom and character) changes. This moves you from an insecure state of mind to a secure state that you've worked to earn. An empathic therapist is essential in facilitating this transition.

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What is attachment?

Attachment theory provides a framework for understanding emotional reactions in infants, and one for understanding love, loneliness, and grief in adults.

Attachment styles in adults are thought to stem directly from the working models (or mental models) of oneself and others that were developed during infancy and can be translated into terms of adult romantic relationships :

• Secure adults find it relatively easy to get close to others and are comfortable depending on others and having others depend on them. Secure adults don't often worry about being abandoned, nor do they worry about someone getting too close to them.

• Avoidant adults are somewhat uncomfortable being close to others; they find it difficult to trust others completely, and difficult to allow themselves to depend on others. Avoidant adults are nervous when anyone gets too close, and often, love partners want them to be more intimate than they feel comfortable being.

• Anxious / ambivalent adults find that others are reluctant to get as close as they would like. Anxious / ambivalent adults often worry that their partner doesn't really love them or won't want to stay with them. Anxious / ambivalent adults want to merge completely with another person, and this desire sometimes scares people away.

CBT - DBT - ISTDP - IPT - SUPPORTIVE - INSIGHT ORIENTED

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