EMDR and Therapeutic Intensity - For the Client and Therapist
Nov 7, 2023
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EMDR therapy offers powerful autonomic and characterological change for both clients and therapists. The podcast discusses the intensity of therapy, choosing a healing lifestyle, embracing challenges in the profession, creating spontaneous moments in therapy relationships, and exploring therapeutic work with dissociative disorders.
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Quick takeaways
EMDR therapy offers powerful autonomic and characterological change for both the client and therapist.
Therapists should embrace a more artistic and authentic approach, allowing for subjective experiences and deeper connections in therapy.
Deep dives
The Importance of EMDR as an Approach
EMDR is not just about reprocessing trauma, but it encompasses the entire therapeutic journey.
The Significance of Intense Therapy Experiences
The podcast hosts share personal experiences of intense therapy sessions, where clients and therapists have transformative insights and a deep sense of realness and rawness.
Challenging the Traditional Therapist Identity
The hosts discuss the need to move beyond rigid professional identities and embrace a more artistic and authentic approach to therapy, allowing for subjective experiences and deeper connections.
The Shift Towards an Aesthetic of Intimacy
The podcast explores the idea of shifting towards an aesthetic of intimacy in therapy, finding meaningful connections, and creating spaces for healing and support within a community of healers.
Listen in to hear Melissa and Bridger dive in to discuss therapeutic intensity in EMDR therapy. For the client and therapist both, EMDR offers a window into powerful autonomic and characterological change.