Why include holistic tools in a clinical therapeutic process?

We have repeatedly heard many people say that they do not need therapy, that they are not "crazy" enough to go to a therapist, or that their problems cannot be solved by a psychologist, this discourse being a great denial (as a defensive mechanism) to address the process of self knowledge. This speech is covered in fears, beliefs and mandates that they may not be able to name or know from that place.

In these cases it will be interesting, in the beginning, give holistic tools to allow an approach to that interior that cannot be addressed. Thus, in a silent way, we are observing what are the thoughts that appear when the patients are about to turn off their lights to enter inside and start working from there.

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What happens when we allow ourselves to start a therapeutic process?

The beginning of these processes opens internal doors that in some cases are closed hermetically, allows the patient to disassemble old structures to reassemble them from another place.

In the sessions, linked by the transference between patient and therapist, the approach of the desire that is lodged in each person is worked on, taking into account that the patient arrives with internal content that, in most cases, does not are their own, but inherited from a family lineage with which they carry and sometimes such lineage has a great weight.

The word will be the motor that puts in motion that being that could not speak, remaining with anxieties, anxieties and fears that hinder his daily life. These processes generate responsibility towards oneself, in order to stop putting the accusation outside and look inward.

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How does therapy help?

Therapy helps identify emotions and manage them appropriately for each one. Likewise, it accompanies the paths and stages of change to alleviate the pain of the soul generated by those emotional movements.

You work with the unconscious to know its content, being there where all the emotional information is housed; in this way it helps to know the causes or roots of the behaviors in the person, trying to generate coherence and harmony between saying, acting and thinking.

Knowing the content of this repressed unconscious leads to discovering in order to heal, with the intention of stopping repeating scenes in life where faces change but not scenarios.

Inside the patient is all the knowledge he needs to feel better. The figure of the therapist is objective and with neutral listening, thus returning such discourse in an inverted way to generate awareness in the patient; respecting the internal maturation times that enable to be able to listen and record what is being worked on, with the sole intention that the patient can write his story from his wish instead of suffering from it, thus generating a second birth from the self knowledge.

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Intervention Strategies

There are different ways to address these processes in the therapeutic framework, being necessary to evaluate the patient in order to provide the appropriate approach.

Accompanying these instances with holistic tools is a way of encourage the patient to continue applying them during the time that he does not attend the consultation.

This consists of the application of certain exercises with various help techniques, such as therapeutic writing and narrative, recording of emotions that are manifested at certain times of the day and in certain situations experienced or that border on memories, guided meditations to stop rational thought and connect with feeling, among other techniques, depending on each case and its individuality.

In addition to the speech and the word, the therapeutic metaphor is applied, with stories, stories or work with symbolic figures, where each one, with its repressed content and from that unconscious in silence, will put words, being the language that this unconscious understands, thereby overcoming the barriers of resistance that disable the search for answers.

In conclusion...

These techniques accompany the clinical processes, generating in the patient the connection with his interior.

The union of both practices is an interesting and broad way of approaching so that the being meets the interior of it and from there evaluate for yourself what content to continue in your life story and what to abandon to find what you want for yourself same.

We go together to the other shore.

Working to heal those fears, beliefs and mandates that weigh down and do not allow you to see clearly. Shall I accompany you?