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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