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 Treatment Options
All psychotherapists at Chrysalis Mental Health & Wellness use a
combination of the interventions described below guided by the tenets of Reprocessing Theory®. The individual, couple, or
family is encouraged to provide input and feedback to the psychotherapist to
assure the most effective and expeditious growth to wellness. The interventions
below are utilized uniquely at Chrysalis as all services are delivered using
multi-sensory presentations that involve the whole brain.
Primary Treatment
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) (www.emdr.com) - "In the broadest sense, EMDR is intended to alleviate human suffering and
assist individuals and human society to fulfill their potential for development
while minimizing risks of harm in its application. For the client, the aim of
EMDR treatment is to achieve the most profound and comprehensive treatment
effects in the shortest period of time, while maintaining client stability
within a balanced family and social system. Eye Movement
Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method of psychotherapy that has
been extensively researched and proven effective for the treatment of trauma.
EMDR is a set of standardized protocols that incorporates elements from many
different treatment approaches. To date, EMDR has helped an estimated two
million people of all ages relieve many types of psychological stress." (EMDRIA,
2008; www.emdria.org)
Alternative Treatments
Impact Therapy developed by Dr. Ed Jacobs (www.impacttherapy.com) - "Impact
Therapy is an approach to counseling that shows respect for the way clients
learn, change, and develop. The emphasis is on making counseling clear, concrete
and thought-provoking, rather than vague, abstract, and emotional. Impact
Therapy is a multi-sensory approach which recognizes that change or impact comes
from not only verbal, but also visual and kinesthetic exchanges. It is a type of
brief therapy although it is different from the work of Watzlawick, Weakland,
and Fisch who have developed a school of therapy called "Brief Therapy." Impact
Therapy is a form of therapy that combines creative counseling techniques and
certain counseling theories. It provides the counselor with ways to frame the
counseling process as well as ways to assess the progress of a session. This
approach is action and insight oriented and often resolution oriented. I call my
approach Impact Therapy because it emphasizes helping the client as much as
possible in each session. The therapist is always trying to get to the core of
the problem by cutting off unnecessary details, irrelevant stories, and
unfocused discussions. The impact therapist sees the goal of any therapy session
as creating change or setting in motion the process for change." "Impact Therapy
is a very unique approach to counseling, integrating concepts from existing
theories. Much is drawn from the theories of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
(REBT), Transactional Analysis (TA), Gestalt, and the creative counseling
techniques that I discuss in Creative Counseling Techniques: An Illustrated
Guide (Jacobs, 1992). The impact therapist combines REBT
with creative props, drawings, analogies, and Gestalt therapy in a very
different manner than the way this theory is traditionally taught. The impact
therapist uses the ego states from TA with chairs, drawings, movement, and in
combination with REBT in clear, concrete, and effective ways. Therapists who
subscribe to Systems theory, Adlerian counseling, Reality Therapy, and most
other theories should find Impact Therapy to be compatible. Impact Therapy
serves as a solid bridge between theories and techniques and provides a clear
way to understand the process and progress of a therapy session." "Impact
Therapy is an empowering approach to therapy that shows great respect for the
client. Impact Therapy calls for the client to be active, thinking, seeing, and
experiencing during the session. Impact therapists try to help clients help
themselves by getting the clients to think rationally about their issues.
Challenging clients' self-talk and using analogies, props, movement, and
additional chairs help make Impact Therapy sessions engaging and beneficial.
Dependent relationships are rare in Impact Therapy since the counselor is always
involving the client in many different ways." (Jacobs, 2008) Play Therapy - "the systematic use of a theoretical model
to establish an interpersonal process wherein trained play therapists use the
therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychosocial
difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development." (www.a4pt.org)
Art Therapy -"a mental health profession that uses the
creative process of art making to improve and enhance the physical, mental and
emotional well-being of individuals of all ages. It is based on the belief that
the creative process involved in artistic self-expression helps people to
resolve conflicts and problems, develop interpersonal skills, manage behavior,
reduce stress, increase self-esteem and self-awareness, and achieve insight."
(www.arttherapy.org)
Dance Therapy -"Based on the assumption that the body and
mind are interrelated, dance/movement therapy is defined as the
psychotherapeutic use of movement to further the emotional, cognitive, physical,
and social integration of the individual. Dance/movement therapy is practiced in
mental health, rehabilitation, medical, educational, and forensic settings, and
in nursing homes, day care centers, disease prevention, and health promotion
programs. The dance/movement therapist focuses on movement behavior as it
emerges in the therapeutic relationship. Expressive, communicative, and adaptive
behaviors are all considered for both group and individual treatment. Body
movement as the core component of dance simultaneously provides the means of
assessment and the mode of intervention for dance/movement therapy." (www.adta.org)
Transactional Analysis (TA) -"Transactional analysis is a
powerful tool to bring about human well being. In psychotherapy, transactional
analysis utilizes a contract for specific changes desired by the client and
involves the "Adult" in both the client and the clinician to sort out behaviors,
emotions and thoughts that prevent the development of full human potential.
Transactional analysts intervene as they work with clients in a safe,
protective, mutually respectful-OK/OK--- environment to eliminate dysfunctional
behaviors and establish and reinforce positive relationship styles and healthy
functioning. Transactional analysts are able to use the many tools of
psychotherapy, ranging from psychodynamic to cognitive behavioral methods in
effective and potent ways." (www.itaa-net.org)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
-"Cognitive-behavioral therapy is based on the idea that our
thoughts cause our feelings and behaviors, not external things, like
people, situations, and events. The benefit of this fact is that we can change
the way we think to feel / act better even if the situation does not
change." (www.nacbt.org)
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