Isn't all therapy emotion focused?

i think that involve the 'tapping' on accupressure points, and is used often with ptsd, in fact, just met one of my child's dr.'s who does this and am thinking of an appt or two for the huge pressure cooker of emotions within me. i'll let you know if it do, mentioned it to t yesterday, but we didn't really 'go' there. jill

JD thanks! Yes that link you posted is the thing I’m talking about. Unfortunately its acronym is the same as Emotional Freedom Technique (the tapping thing that Jill is talking about) but they are two completely different things.

I think it’s so new/unusual (in UK anyway) that not many professionals even know of it let alone practise it.

Lol Russ once I would have thought that all therapy is emotion focused - now I know differently. There’s a huge difference between therapy where emotions as a ‘by-product’ of the process are more or less tolerated as an evil necessity (always the onus seems to be on getting over or getting rid of them) and therapy which focuses intentionally on feelings without trying to explain, rationalize, understand or somehow ‘use’ them to make intellectual connections with the past. I like to think of it as a form of ‘mindfulness’ therapy (going with what I'm feeling in the here and now - which is why specific emotion focused therapy as an idea appealed to me.

Out of curiosity has anyone tried the tapping therapy? I get the impression it might work in a similar way to EMDR but don’t know much about either of them. Jill if you do get to try it, let me know how you find it?

LL

ll, i will, i don't think i am going to at this point, i asked t about it and she, maybe, of course, didn't promote me going elsewhere for services, altho i said, 'in conjunction with what we are doing here', anyway. for now, i'll see what she has going on, and i am a bit embarrasssed to show this man, who i have known for years, what a nut i am inside!!

but if some emotional discharging doesn't occur soon, i might, come fall, when kids are back at school and i have more time.

jill

Jill,

It does sound similar to EMDR and as such I would be very careful since you've mentioned that you are dissociative. Those dissociative barriers are there for a reason and I know how frustrating that can be, but tearing them down before you are really ready to do so or too fast can be a disaster. I would hate for you to have a massive flood of emotion all at one time, you know?

STRM, i think you are right, my t is going slowly, she says i am more afraid of that inner child and what she has to say than anybody else in my life. and i think she is right.

i fear letting loose, as that inner child, expressing that anger that i am sure lurks in there that was never allowed to express. i wish i could just accept the child and nurture her, as i don't want to have to experience that anger, and too, i would feel REALLY STUPID expressing it, crying, hitting a pillow, all that stuff that i hear people do , but i would feel so embarrassed to do.

yes, those walls are there for a reason, STRM, and i am so afraid to really see why. they are strong, they were developed early, and i don't quite know what all they are protecting me from....is there more i don't know?? i don't really think so, but not completeely sure. they go up fast, they feel best all tlhe way up...i dunnno, i am afraid of what that kid has to say.

think i am going to start with this today. good post strm, you hit a nerve....jill

oops, lamplighter, i think i have officially and totally hijacked your thread. so sorry, back to YOU, (hiding head in shame) jill