DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EXTINCTION AND MEMORY RECONSOLIDATION
What is the difference between extinction and memory reconsolidation? Unfortunately, people don’t know enough about memory reconsolidation, and they loop it in and think it’s the same as extinction and it’s not. It’s different, if you’re a therapist you’re going to want to know these…
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU EXPRESS SUCIDAL THOUGHTS TO YOUR THERAPIST?
What happens when you tell your therapist that you are having thoughts of suicide? The first and foremost thing your therapist is going to want to know is what level of risk you are. That determines where things go, if you’re not immediate risk and…
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CRISIS INTERVENTION & THERAPY
What is the difference between therapy and crisis intervention? In a crisis intervention a lot of the rules go out the window. As a therapist if I have a client who’s in crisis, and they’re a danger to themselves or someone else I’m ethically obligated…
HOW TO PREVENT SUICIDE
Suicide prevention and coping techniques are vitally important. In the United States suicide is the second leading cause of death of individuals between ages 10 and 34, and it is the fourth leading cause of death of individuals from 35 to 44. Half of these…
THE POWER OF POSSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS
What are positive affirmations and why should you care? Positive affirmations are things that you tell yourself out loud, like qualities about yourself, or things that you want to become true. Someone may say every single day a list of things that they aspire to…
WHAT IS RELAXATION INDUCED ANXIETY?
What is relaxation-induced anxiety and what can you do about it? Relaxation-induced anxiety like the term seems so counter-intuitive. You’re supposed to be relaxing why is that causing anxiety? Why indeed. This is a thing particularly with PTSD or people who have had trauma. Different…
WHAT BLOCKS EMOTIONAL PROCESSING/ HEALING?
Are there memories that have a lot of emotional weight? Have you ever wondered why does this event that happened so long ago still carry so much emotional weight? What would it do for you if you knew why some things are so hard to…
WHAT IS PARTS AND MEMORY THERAPY?
What is parts and memory therapy? Parts and memory therapy holds the assumption that some of our emotional responses to things are learned. If we can go back to these moments and take the emotions out of the memory our present emotional response isn’t as…
ARE THERAPISTS A BUNCH OF QUACKS?
Are therapists a bunch of quacks? Like dude just get over it you don’t have to feel feelings. The problem is if you take that emotion whatever you’re feeling you just suppress it, it can build up and then you just get mad over dumb…
Emotional processing
HOW TO FEEL BETTER EMOTIONALLY Some basics of emotional processing involve letting yourself feel to heal. Give yourself permission to feel those feelings, to exert them. If someone is talking to you and you ignore them, they get louder. Your emotions react in the same…