Emotional Safeness Therapy

Emotional Safeness Therapy Emotional Safeness Therapy (EST) is a new integrative treatment for recurrent depression and personality problems.

Emotional Safeness Therapy is a form of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy that integrates therapeutic strategies borrowed from different approaches, mainly from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), within a coherent conceptual framework. EST has been developed by a clinical psychologist Stanislaw Malicki and his colleagues at the Department of Psychiatry of the Akershus University Hospital in Norway. The therapy has already been successfully implemented at an outpatient unit of the Akershus University Hospital as a group treatment for depression, with promising clinical results. Its effectiveness is currently being tested in clinical trials.

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What is Emotional Safeness Therapy?

Emotional Safeness Therapy (EST) is a new integrative treatment for recurrent depression and co-occurring personality problems. The EST has been successfully implemented and run as group therapy over a period of three years (2015-2018) at an outpatient unit of the Akershus University Hospital in Norway.

The term Emotional Safeness (as distinct from emotional safety) is derived directly from the term “social safeness” proposed by Paul Gilbert, and extends the qualities of “social safeness” to the client’s relation with oneself.

Emotional Safeness Therapy views the quality of the self-to-self relation as crucial for mental health. While we can’t completely control the way other people treat us, we can always change the way we treat ourselves.

Emotional Safeness may be defined as a sense of acceptance, support, warmth, soothing and reassurance in the relationship with oneself. The sense of emotional safeness is fostered by self-nurturance, self-care, self-reassurance and self-compassion. It is thought to be undermined by self-coercion and self-criticism.