Working at Cause with Brief Therapy.
A New Approach with Yildiz Sethi
What is Brief Therapy?
In this context its brief Psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy is a process that comes out of a philosophy, theory and practice to assist people in sorting out their inner world so they can take navigate their life in a better way.
Firstly I will clarify some of the terms I am using so that you understand the meaning of the terminology going forward.
What’s the difference between counselling, psychotherapy and Cognitive Behavioural therapy CBT?
What is Counselling?
This is not giving advice.
Counselling is generally perceived as providing a safe place for people to unburden themselves of the challenges and situations they encounter in their lives. Allowing people to come to their own solutions and perspectives over time through their story in talk therapy. Often in weekly sessions.
There are many style of counselling.
What is psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy is a deeper process whereby people may explore their inner thoughts, feelings and motivations. Depending in the psychotherapy it will have its own philosophy of how the mind works and how it may be assisted in exploring and reshaped from the inside. This is a place to explore deep emotional or psychological experiences and traditionally takes place in long term weekly sessions.
What is CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
This the main approach used by psychologists in the Medical Model of Mental health and offered in Medicare plans so people may have subsidised treatments of a set number of sessions with a psychologist.
What is the overall expectations of Counselling, psychotherapy and CBT.
The Medical Model?
Most counsellors and psychotherapists come from the Humanist philosophies with the belief that human beings can learn, grow, change and develop throughout life. They expect change may take place over time in a safe therapeutic non-judgemental space.
CBT in the Medical model comes from a diagnostic approach that those with mental health diagnoses need to be taught how to manage their symptoms with strategies, often with medication because the prognosis is that once you have a diagnosis it is for life.
What is Brief Therapy? (Or Brief Psychotherapy?)
Is there such a thing?
Brief therapy is a range of approaches that aim to assist people in short term psychotherapeutic interventions that are designed to assist people in being able to navigate life and become more autonomous rather than dependent, on long-term therapeutic approaches.
Solution-Focused
Depending on their individual philosophies this may take place by being Solution focused. Focussing on the best way out of problems in going forward in life. This is cognitively based and strategic in nature.
Present Focused
Most modern counselling and psychotherapy approaches including brief therapies prefer to stay in the present as there is a sense that the past is the past and can’t be changed, so it’s best to stay in the here and now.
The problem with staying in the present in terms of traditional therapies counselling, psychotherapy, CBT or Brief therapies is that in staying in the ‘here and now’ we attempt to avoid, shut down or skirt around our past. Where we come from, the power of formative years and generational patterns of feelings, thoughts and behaviours that impact the way we do life in the present.
There is a belief that all of these factors are best to be shut down or cut-off as if we are an isolated entity in our world. In reality we are part of our culture, religion, social class and our family system, born to a particular mum and dad and possible with siblings. All of this has an effect and is part of who we are. In this I am talking about the generational or systemic part of who we are.
The other important consideration of who we that has chapes us and continues to do so comes from life experiences. Our formative years in growing up to the present time. The events that have taken place in our biography. These are what I call the Personal part of who we are.
Our complex dual subconscious minds
Generational Subconscious Mind
In my practice since 2000 I have found that much of what we carry form our family system is strong and positive. There is often resilience and fortitude and if we are fortunate a sense of belonging and being loved. There are often themes feelings and behaviours or even trauma that are passed through generations that we unknowingly carry as well. These are held in what I call the generational subconscious mind. The is now shown as fact from epigenetic studies. Details
These include subconsciously holding family loyalties, and dysfunction that often include feelings of disconnection, poor self-worth and not feeling valued as well. These are uncomfortable feelings that may even be painful and so are repressed. Repressed and yet present in playing out in our lives as generational themes.
Personal Subconscious mind
In our daily life up to the present many good things may have happened and also problematic, shameful, unfair, violent (emotional or physical) or any other disturbing situation. These are mostly repressed into our personal subconscious mind. Repressed and yet active disturbances that may arise as symptoms of depression, anxiety, defensiveness, triggers or full PTSD trauma symptoms.
From my perspective everything has a starting point.
What does Working at Cause Mean?
This means having the understanding and reliable and replicable safe techniques to access the causal memories in the subconscious personal or generational minds, with ways of processing the causes, accurately safely gently, effectively and rapidly. Clearing neural pathways of the causal disturbances to resolve symptoms of feelings, thoughts and behaviour in daily life.
Neuroscience has shown that the brain is neuroplastic with the ability to continuously rewire and that this may take place instantly, in the moment when particular conducive conditions are in place. Details
This is my Brief therapy. Rapid Core Healing that works at cause and requires 1-4 session for most, for each complex issue or symptom. This allows the client to reset, find new perspective and move on in their life in short Brief Therapy interventions as required.
This way of working is experiential, somatic, present and solution-focused through resolving the cause of what holds you back in Rapid Core Healing Brief psychotherapy
In this way work on many levels of who you in assisting you to process, clear and integrate the cause of your symptoms in a way that is safe and rapid.
I am based in Mount tambourine Qld Australia and offer an in person clinic for Gold Coast and Brisbane and online services for other Australian states. I also offer training in Rapid Core Healing for practitioners
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