Sherry Reiter – Treat Anxiety, Trauma, Addiction and Depression Through the Wisdom & Creativity of Story and Symbol
Description Of Treat Anxiety, Trauma, Addiction and Depression Through the Wisdom & Creativity of Story and Symbol
In this recording, you’ll get innovative tools and interventions based in stories, writing, journaling and other expressive therapies – also known as Bibliotherapy. These evidence-based techniques will empower you to creatively and effectively treat your clients facing anxiety, trauma, addiction and depression, as well as allow you to bypass resistance to therapy, overcome your toughest client’s inability to express themselves, and make therapeutic progress where traditional techniques can fail.
What you’ll learn in Treat Anxiety, Trauma, Addiction and Depression Through the Wisdom & Creativity of Story and Symbol
Here’s what you’ll get:
JOURNALING
- Create positive neural circuitry
- Shift your client’s mood within seven minutes with transformative writing
- Utilize the Journal Ladder for successful intervention
- Distinguish between cathartic writing and writing for reflection, insight and problemsolving
STORIES
- Understand the importance of polyphony in expanding narratives
- Identify archetypes that are driving the life story
- Collaborate with your client to create a new narrative
- Use teaching tales for insight and new learning
POEMS
- Collect powerful poetry prescriptions for immediate clinical use
- Apply the “isoprinciple” and principle of opposites for emotional change
- Understand how metaphor is a catalyst for whole brain learning
- Share published literature and initiate dynamic, meaningful dialogue
Apply Bibliotherapy Techniques to Treat:
ANXIETY
- Transform anxiety into calmness:
Mental imagery
Rhythm and breath
Clusters, lists, sentence stems and pantoums
Haiku
Hypnotic words and mantras
TRAUMA
- Anchor clients with emotional stability and flexibility:
Gentle, concrete journaling techniques for calming and centering
Creative visualizations to relax and focus
Strategic problem solving that builds on client strengths
ADDICTION
- Create new neural circuitry:
Replace addictive cravings with new rituals and the habit of journaling
Decrease isolation with “communitas”
Transform avoidance and numbing to connection and healthy attachment
DEPRESSION
- Improve mood and instill hope:
“Sunbursts” and “sparkling moments”
Edit the negatives into positives
Strengthen the injured ego with “ink transfusions” from famous writers and leaders
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