Feeling-FOCUSED Therapy
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Along with other services we offer feeling-focused therapy - a process of encountering and releasing repressed feelings and memories, thus discovering how they have influenced our life. It is a powerful and most natural approach to emotional wellbeing. It evolved throughout the years of our practice from different experiential modalities, such as Primal Integration, Gestalt Therapy, Psychodrama, Inner Child Work and others.
Humans
become unhappy and/or dysfunctional primarily because they have been hurt. Hurting is a feeling. Just thinking and/or
talking cannot fully change feelings.
Feeling-focused therapy enables you to go back to these repressed experiences, feel
them, liberate the locked-in energy and thus heal yourself. |
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"Feel it and you will be freed from it"
- Paul Vereshack, M.D. |
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People
are born into this world with the ability and the need to fully express
our emotions: joy, rage,
terror, deep need, grief, and loneliness. When we grow up we learn that
we can't always show our feelings. We get punished for expressing feelings, learn to block
and store them and, as a consequence, become unhappy, constantly tired
or sick. We "split". We carry with us a heavy load of unresolved
business that exhausts our original energy and deprives us of a creative
and enjoyable life. When we are little we get hurt in two different ways. First, parents are often not able to meet our needs for nurturing, attention, contact and caring. We begin to starve emotionally and split from feeling the pain of unmet needs. Second, we may have experienced emotional, verbal, physical or sexual abuse. Many of our histories contain both. For most of us childhood trauma is not a "one time" event, but rather "net trauma"- hurtful and damaging events over long periods of time. These old hurts have a powerful emotional charge. Many of us have wounds from childhood that need healing before we can live joyful, truly happy lives and fully realize our potential as human beings. How Can Feeling-Focused Therapy Help You Feel Better? Emotional release work is a natural process that our biology needs to complete. It is a healing power we all possess. It is the way to feel and integrate life experiences that have been split off from our awareness. It helps release old traumatic pain, which was blocked from our consciousness. This process brings positive internal changes, relief from negative feelings and destructive behaviors. Feeling-focused therapy involves a combination of affective (feeling), cognitive (thinking) and behavioral (doing) techniques. Change and healing are global experiences, affecting all aspects (self-concept, motivation, behaviors, and feelings) of our living in the world. By doing this work you can learn to trust your own natural healing ability to process your feelings. It is a way to get to know yourself on a very deep level, which you will continue to use to achieve clarity throughout your life.The Significance of a Trusting Relationship |
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A
sincere trusting relationship between client and therapist is very
important in this process. As this relationship develops, a client is
able to let down their guard with someone they can trust and on whom
they can depend to remain on their side. This is a special period of
concentrated individual attention
that helps the
client to consciously resolve old unsatisfied needs and hurts. In this
caring, honest and open relationship, strong emotional expressions arise
naturally. By allowing them, and later discussing and journaling the
connection between "old feelings" and present-day problems, we can put
the past where it belongs - in the past and have more satisfying lives
in the present.
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