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I’m a mere therapist, but if I could share one piece of life advice with anyone, it would be this: Take an improv class. And, improv teachers and therapists cultivate an environment of support, empathy, validation, and a space to improve skills. Both disciplines aim for presence of mind and spirit.
Most forms of psychotherapy require that the therapist perform a “delicate balancing act” between competing forces. In Neurodynamic Couples Therapy, there are primarily three areas in which the delicate balancing of the couples therapist is required for therapeutic success.
What do prospective clients look for when seeking a new therapist? Empathy is a vital quality for a therapist, as are good social skills and high ethical standards. How do former clients rate this therapist? Credentials, education level, years of experience, and specialization are all important.
Our right brains are attracted to mates who already possess the potential ability to have perfect empathy for our inner worlds. I have consistently found in my work with couples that partners have experienced highly similar trauma and have stored highly similar unmetabolized emotions from their childhoods.
Our right brains are attracted to mates who already possess the potential ability to have perfect empathy for our inner worlds. I have consistently found in my work with couples that partners have experienced highly similar trauma and have stored highly similar unmetabolized emotions from their childhoods.
Too often couple conflicts make therapists anxious, and they prematurely shut down the most fertile ground for empathy and understanding. This should be an end-goal for the work; not the first reaction from the therapist. But this isn’t often the case, unless the therapist is working in a domestic violence setting.
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The competent therapist who is utilizing these mechanisms must be attuned to material that triggers their own right-brain generated focus and attention. Something about the way he says “having to wait” creates a feeling within the therapist that something important has been said. Does it seem that they care about your waiting?
In Neurodynamic Couples Therapy, exploring feelings is the pathway to metabolizing and integrating them into a cohesive sense of self and relationships and creating a bond of empathy and understanding between partners. The primary technique we use to explore feelings is what we call “following threads.”
The therapist in this configuration can feel tremendously pulled toward identified patients, through either annoyance or sympathy. The skilled therapist must work to develop a deeper–and equally balanced–understanding and empathy for both partners’ contributions to their repetitive conflicts.
The competent couples therapist is alert to the transition into more primitive states which must be transformed into words about the childhood trauma that has been awakened through current anger. Therapists have heard many stories about a partner who becomes violent and then feels horrified and ashamed about harming their mate.
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