New Path Holistic Psychotherapy

New Path Holistic Psychotherapy Adult and Adolescent Psychotherapy. EMDR. Mindfulness Training. Career Counseling.

10/02/2023

Do you have a therapist? Does your therapist "call you on your resistance" to therapy -- or more typically your resistance to whatever their present "intervention" is? Every situation is different; every therapeutic relationship unique -- and so for that reason only will I (there's that word again) resist what I want to write, which is "find a new therapist."

But know that whatever "resistance" you exhibit in therapy is the wisdom of your own self-protectiveness. Does it need to be there anymore? Maybe not. But know that listening to it with compassion, and gently inviting it into your new reality -- and not the past one that it's almost certainly, bravely still fighting against -- is far more productive, healing, and sustainable than trying to just get rid of it.

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." --Carl Rogers

Your therapist can either walk with you through this, or else aggressively try to get you to disown certain parts of yourself -- because in this latter case, your therapist has their own agenda, and their need to be a "successful therapist" is superseding their attunement to every part of you.

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As we know from the work of Bessel van der Kolk (2006, 1996), Christine Courtois and Julian Ford (2009), and Allan Schore (2003), childhood trauma dramatically interferes with the body’s ability to self-regulate both psychologically and somatically.

This profound psychophysiological dysregulation in turn interferes with perception, cognition, affect tolerance, basic bodily functions such as digestion and respiration, hormonal and metabolic processes, and probably even immune function. Interpersonal, functional, and conceptual learning are compromised.

Psychological development is delayed or distorted, and identity formation must proceed along the “fault lines” that result from dissociative defenses and compartmentalization.

Is it then any wonder that adult survivors of trauma become so remarkably adept at inventing compensatory strategies aimed at self-regulation long before they enter the doors of our offices, hospitals, and clinics?

To learn more, download my free ebook: Addictions and Trauma Recovery.

Link below 👇

https://janinafisher.com/resources/addictions-and-trauma-recovery-free-e-books-access/

06/19/2023
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