Sincerely,

SC.

I am a BCaBA (Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst)-recently certified November 2010.
I work primarily with children ages 18 months to 16 years old. Some of my clients have been diagnosed with Autism. Others are typically developing but with severe behavioral issues.

I have witnessed the benefits of ABA first hand. Attached is a link to the BACB (Behavior Analyst Certification Board). bacb. com
They can provide your readers with general information and a list of board certified therapists by country, US zip, or by a therapist’s name.

http://www.jbmti.org/content/view/1754/328/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational-cultural_therapy

So What Is The Job Of Deep Feeling Therapy?

By taking the hurt, injured party from their head into their feelings, deep feeling therapy heals a real mental illness. What do I mean by mental illness? The losing of the self, the repression and blocking off of the feeling/healing brain. By unblocking the neurotransmitters that shut off feeling, we release those overworked chemicals and allow for a new more integrated chemistry to take over. Divorce and separation is traumatic and the meaning/message of that feeling is conveyed to a place in the limbic system which includes the amygdala and the thalamus. The hippocampus, an important structure of the limbic system, is considered the gateway to memory and the unconscious. When a person is traumatized by abandonment, abuse, rejection, etc., memory will remain somewhat cortically intact, but the feelings will become disembodied. The amygdala stores pain, aids gating functions, and is also loaded with pain killing endorphins. When painful emotions move from the limbic system to the cortex, morphine type opiates block their route. When these emotions partially infiltrate the cortex, the person becomes aware of pain. These painful emotions move towards consciousness into the cortex for resolution, while the neurotransmission gates simultaneously try to block it, thus causing suffering. By deep feeling methods we change the brain’s chemistry, allowing for the release and resolution of pain. Repressed realms can then be felt and the look and feel of pain is relieved.

Emotional Healing

The shortest and simplest answer is that RPT is one of the easiest way to clear deep emotional pain, trauma and patterns. This means that first of all, we can powerfully change just about any emotional block using this work. You may already have seen lots of other techniques for clearing emotional blocks, so the simplest thing I can say is that we go deeper, much deeper. This technique works – often instantly – because we truly get to the deepest layer of our stuff. To use a simple but powerful visual metaphor – most techniques “peel away layers of the onion”, we jump straight in and slice the onion up!

Clearing emotional pain and suffering, including symptoms of depression, low self worth, phobias, and other emotional blocks, is simple and effective with this work.

I’ve been using it for the last 1.5 years and it’s been really helpful in my work. It’s really good stuff.

Am thinking “Brief Therapy” (Jay Haley) and “Stuctural Family Therapy” as practiced by Salvador Minuchin

Thanks, very educational site!

Lauren

Hi Lauren, Thank you for your good suggestions. Both are included under the heading of Family Systems Therapy here: http://www.goodtherapy.org/family-systems-therapy.html Though I think it would make sense for each ot have thier won catgeory as well. We’ll at that to our list of changes. Thanks again!

These areas are not on your list of services provided or areas of specialization. I am hoping that you will add these as many clinicians offer assessment as well as psychotherapy. Thank you kindly.

thank you.

ADMIN MESSAGE:
Hi Nancy, we include “Sex / Sexuality Issues” as “concerns addressed” in therapy. Is there a particular model of sex therapy you’d like us to include? Please let us know.

Greenberg, L. S. (2008) Emotion-Focused Therapy: The Dynamics of Emotion, Love and Power: Washington, D.C. The American Psychological Association, p. X

I definitely am an “emotion-focused” therapist not just an “emotion-focused” couples therapist.

Thank you!

In my judgment, the assigning of criteria could be seen as an interpretive action that may not be consistent with this sites’ intention for networking and information. Are you going to obtain approval from a governing body to allow for a posting of a technique or the satisfying of some kind of screening criteria? (APA, NBCC, NASW, etc..).

If so, then has the proper permission been obtained to make such posting and interpretations? Is it this site’s intention to put itself in such a position? Is this an activity that the administrators of this site wish to take on?

I support this site’s existence and wish to see more sites like this available to consumers. I believe the following to be highly appropriate and enough to inform consumers of inherent risk.

“The following is a list of specific psychotherapy approaches and therapy types. Some of these therapy types have been around for many years, others are relatively new. Some have been grounded in research, others in theory, and some rely on anecdotal evidence. Some are popularly accepted, others are cutting edge, and some controversial. GoodTherapy.org is not in a position to endorse or disapprove any therapy types.”

I judge that such or similar language to be enough to warn consumers of inherent risk. I judge there to be no need to construct an elaborate table that may be construed as beyond informative, possibly suggestive, biased, and or even interpretive. I also suggest that constructing a table noting criteria such as evidenced based, etc., could be suggestive of endorsement and also may be in conflict with your intentions.

Thanks for your excellent and perceptive comment and for your appreciation of the GT ideals. You are totally correct about the list of models. As it is explicitly stated in the introductory paragraph:

“The following is a list of specific psychotherapy approaches and therapy types. Some of these therapy types have been around for many years, others are relatively new. Some have been grounded in research, others in theory, and some rely on anecdotal evidence. Some are popularly accepted, others are cutting edge, and some controversial. GoodTherapy.org is not in a position to endorse or disapprove any therapy types.”

We also agree with you that it would be helpful to include the Therapy Types on a table which will display to users on quick-glance 1) whether or not each item is a comprehensive model, an adjunct technique, or falls somewhere between. 2) the general year or decade of origin 3) and whether or not the approach is evidence based.

Please let us know is there is anything else you suggest including in this proposed table?

Thanks for your excellent suggestions!

The GoodTherapy.org Team