Coherence Therapy: How to Create Powerful Symptom Deprivations, Free Portion

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Coherence Therapy was developed by Bruce Ecker, LMFT and Laurel Hulley, MA. The official website of Coherence Therapy is that of the Coherence Psychology Institute: www.coherencetherapy.com
Coherence Therapy is a unified set of methods and concepts for individual, couple and family work that enable a therapist to foster profound change with a high level of consistency.
From the first session, the work is focused on guiding clients to get in touch with hidden, core areas of meaning and feeling that are generating the presenting symptom or problem. Coherence Therapy makes use of native capacities for swiftly retrieving and then transforming the client's unconscious, symptom-requiring emotional schemas, which were formed adaptively earlier in life.
A wide range of symptoms can be dispelled … along with their associated, less visible emotional wounds, attachment patterns and troubled “parts". The process is experiential and the therapist's empathic attunement is a crucial ingredient.

[@capngrace84]

This is great! The positive framing of a new experience is so important to communicate to new folks interested in therapy

[@modelo61]

A tip if possible in this medium. What to do with a client that manages to stay stable even if the symptom is deprived? It seems that he does not pretend.

[@experiential-psychotherapy]

Thanks for the question Mario. Part 2 of the tutorial is called "What to do when a Symptom Deprivation 'Doesn't Work' " . It teaches a number of techniques one can employ, including how to tweak the content of the Symptom Deprivation, how to guide the client's attention specifically towards the discomfort they may be not noticing, how to "turn up the volume" on the Symptom Deprivation, how to determine if this is a "functionless symptom" (and what to do if so), and more. You can find both parts one and two of the tutorial here: www.experiential-psychotherapies.com/residences/#ctanchor3

[@modelo61]

@@experiential-psychotherapy Thanks a lot!

[@daniellepost7634]

Do you approach this the same with teenagers? Thank you for sharing!!

[@experiential-psychotherapy]

Hi Danielle. Like most forms of experiential therapy, Coherence Therapy techniques can be done in creative ways so as to work with kids and teens. Symptom deprivations can be created using art therapy, sand tray, drama therapy, and other similar techniques that activate the emotional brain using other channels besides just the verbal cortex. These can also be useful with teens, but often they can work just like adults as well.

[@daniellepost7634]

@@experiential-psychotherapy Thank you for your reply! Your videos are very helpful!