PSYCHOTHERAPY FROM ISRAEL / SEE FAR CBT AND THE SOUL CREATURES’ LAND
First, connect with your body,
body sensation, and feeling without thinking.
Peter Levine’s SIBAM model
How could you describe your shock or the impact of the TRAUMA?
Have you ever felt limited in expressing by using words the shock you have received?
If necessary, I will use therapy cards. The purpose is to externalize the images/metaphors of shock and trauma impact that automatically come up in your brain and are difficult to put into words.
It is a way to take the sensation out of the senses before it is verbalized.
We automatically use images and metaphors negatively. Depression, for example, could be described as a Bad Trance state. This is a state in which our minds are filled with negative images and metaphors. It is our usual practice to generate more and more images and metaphors in a negative direction. Let’s practice with me so that we can use images and metaphors more differently and positively, i.e., we can use our innate skills in a positive direction.
I had been studying how I could reach out to the “imagination” of my clients and met the psychotherapists from Israel, which is a country that has experienced post-war trauma virtually since our rebirth in 1948.
“SEE FAR CBT” and “The Soul Creatures’ Land,” both psychotherapies I learned from Psychotherapists in Israel, use image/metaphor/own imagination!!
What is SEE FAR CBT ?
SEE FAR CBT is a treatment protocol for anxiety and stress related disorders, developed by Prof. Mooli Lahad & Miki Doron.
SEE FAR CBT has modified and adapted elements from several approaches to the treatment of psycho-trauma that have proven successful in changing and bettering the situation of patients. It includes:
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Enhancing the sense of safety and security
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focusing on the “body memory”
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Real world experimentation and gradual exposure
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Reconstruction of the traumatic story using Visual stimuli. Emphasizing the visual cortex based exposure and the use of therapeutic cards for the creation of an alternative story of the trauma.
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Adopting new learning and using reflective thinking and self
SEE FAR CBT http://www.eng.seefarcbt.com/
The photo from SEE FAR CBT Website :http://www.eng.seefarcbt.com
The photo from SEE FAR CBT Website :http://www.eng.seefarcbt.com
The photo from SEE FAR CBT Website :http://www.eng.seefarcbt.com
SEE FAR CBT http://www.eng.seefarcbt.com/
SEE FAR CBT http://www.eng.seefarcbt.com/
This is Yukari’s safe place.
SEE FAR CBT http://www.eng.seefarcbt.com/
SEE FAR CBT is a suggested new protocol for the treatment of anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using creative form treatment based on empowerment through fantastic reality.
The model emphasizes the role of fantastic reality and the use of imaginal re-narration of the traumatic event with the use of cards as a means of externalization or distancing. The treatment protocol incorporates methods of somatic memory reduction as well as CBT elements.
Mooli Lahad., Ph.D., et al. (2010). Preliminary study of a new integrative approach in treating post-traumatic stress disorder: SEE FAR CBT, The Arts in Psychotherapy, Volume 37, Issue 5, November 2010, Pages 391-399
What is The Soul Creatures’ Land?
