CAROL GRACE
As you believe, so you behave. As you behave, so you become. As you become, so becomes your world.
Resources
to some of the techniques I use in my sessions.
TRTP - The Richard’s Trauma Process
TRTP™ resolves anxiety, depression, PTSD and trauma-related issues by taking the distressing events we have experienced, and it puts them firmly in The Past. The emotional charge of the past is resolved.
Our Fight Flight Freeze, high stress response is switched off and replaced with an empowered, self-regulated state. The sympathetic nervous system recalibrates and is calmed.
We quickly move from a state of ‘I’m Not safe!’ to, ‘It’s over… I’m safe now…’
Calm returns, on all levels.
Symptoms, of anxiety, depression, PTSD etc. simply cease, the triggers disappear.
Text Source: https://trtptherapy.com/trtp/
Here’s a link to a video that explains the technique very well:
EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique
EFT stands for “Emotional Freedom Techniques.” It is a powerful self-help method based on research showing that emotional trauma compromises both physical and emotional health.
Over 100 clinical trials have shown that EFT is effective for anxiety, depression, PTSD, pain, phobias, and many physical diagnoses. EFT is able to rapidly reduce the emotional impact of memories and incidents that trigger emotional distress.
EFT uses elements of Cognitive Therapy and Exposure Therapy. These are combined with Acupressure, in the form of fingertip tapping on 13 acupuncture points. For that reason EFT is often called “tapping.” Over 100 papers published in peer-reviewed medical and psychology journals demonstrate that EFT is effective.
Text Source: www.eftuniverse.com
Here’s a link to a video I recorded where I show you the simple 9 Gamut Point Technique for a rapid reduction of emotional distress:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BrJkIW6X6g
IFS - Internal Family System
IFS is a transformative tool that conceives every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts lead by a core Self. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Just like members of a family, inner parts are forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us. Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged. It knows how to heal.
IFS is frequently used as an evidence-based psychotherapy, helping people heal by accessing and healing their protective and wounded inner parts. IFS creates inner and outer connectedness by helping people first access their Self and, from that core, come to understand and heal their parts.
But IFS is much more than a non-pathologizing evidence-based psychotherapy to be used in a clinical setting. It is also a way of understanding personal and intimate relationships and stepping into life with the 8 Cs: confidence, calm, compassion, courage, creativity, clarity, curiosity, and connectedness.
Text Source: https://ifs-institute.com/about-us
EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences.
Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma. When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.
EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.
Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes.
Text Source: https://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr/
PACT
How is PACT different from other models of couple therapy?
The PACT model stands out from most other forms of couple therapy with these key features:
Using the PACT approach, both the therapist and the couple focus on moment-to-moment shifts in the face, body, and voice. Therapists help partners learn to be more attuned and respond to these subtle shifts in each other.
During a PACT session, the therapist creates experiences similar to those troubling a couple’s relationship, and they help partners work through issues in real time.
PACT tends to require fewer sessions than do other forms of couple therapy.
PACT sessions often exceed 50 minutes and may last as long as 3–6 hours. Longer sessions allow for PACT therapists to work more deeply with couples.
PACT therapists may videotape sessions to provide immediate feedback to couples and to help couples pay close attention to their partner’s nuanced behaviors as well as their own.
Text Source: https://www.thepactinstitute.com/what-is-pact
Additional approaches to Couple Therapy:
The Gottmann Method Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy
Blog
Find two excerpts of my articles below.
Benefits of Gratitude
Creating an attitude of gratitude can have so many benefits for your state of mind and overall well-being. Read some of the benefits below:
An attitude of gratitude not only boosts joy and general life satisfaction, it's also the single best predictor of good relationships, and benefits both sanity and physical health.
Gratitude has measurable beneficial effects on the mood neurotransmitters serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine, inflammatory cytokines, immune function, blood pressure, blood sugar, testosterone (sex hormone), oxytocin (social bonding hormone)
and cortisol (stress hormone)Gratitude has also been linked to improved self-care…
Return to Calm.
Suggestions on how to return to a calm state. Choose whichever of these you enjoy and want to do.
Create the environment in which you can THRIVE! Including the environment between your ears! Be creative. Reduce or stop news cycles as those create a toxic environment!
I CHOOSE TO KNOW, I can create the environment in which I can Thrive!
It’s said that we are the sum of the 5 people we hang out with most:
I GET TO CHOOSE, NO ONE ELSE, Who I AM. I GET TO CHOOSE, who to hang out with, people who have what I want (ie, fun, conscious, creative, musical, fit, open, adventuresome, brilliant, loving…)
Self-Regulation…
READY TO WORK WITH ME?