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I feel there's a difference between types of therapy..... talk therapy, is much more problematic in this regard than somatic, activity orientated therapies such as dance, equine, art, yoga, meditation etc. These therapies have less reliance on the "relationship" between therapist and client...

This is a bit odd. If he is forgeting and it is important for you, ask him what he puts in his notes. It is normal for therapists to keep notes, both as an aide memoire, and to refer back to in order to see longer term trends in the case. Check out what his record keeping policy is and go from...

As suzetig says.... find a new therapist. The CBT/DBT one sounds like he's not doing CBT/DBT. You are paying for him to do a job, not be your friend. This is a bit blunt.... and in no way means "Im paying, you fix me", but it does mean you would expect to see change after around 200 sessions of...

Depends where you are..... Mental health is different in each English NHS trust, and then different again in Scotland, Wales and N Ireland.

If you are anxious about telling your therapist, it's hardly an indication of being manipulative... quite the reverse. It's one of those things that good therapists take in their stride. That being said, there are quite a few anxious therapists out there who get freaked by suicidal ideation...

What's out there depends on your location in the UK. Mental health provision in England is fragmented as each area does it's own thing. In Scotland it's a bit more together, but the Central Belt has considerably more provision. My experience has been that most trauma treatment is done either by...

If you think your therapist is OK, go back and have an "ending" session with them. This makes it easier for everyone if you might want to resume therapy with that therapist/practice. If you are doing Exposure type therapy, the drop out rate is high, switching to a different approach make it...

How the therapist reacts depends on the personality of the therapist and their training. Some types of training very much frown on the therapist showing any kind of emotional reaction. Others use their internal emotional response to the client to judge when to offer comfort. AS junebug says...

You are right to be wary. The initial slip up could be put down to human error, but it's not cool for a therapist to refer to a client's name when there are clients present. I think hearing your name triggered your subconscious (we are finely tuned to picking up our own name). Your...

Just talk about it, tell your therapist what you are thinking...... because what you are thinking is likely a fantasy, rooted in the past. A good therapist will be able to help you work out what is triggering these fantasies, and therefore see them for what they are.... fantasies. Over time...

The idea of pushing one's SUDS level up to get "faster" results is unlikely to work and is as simplistic as taking expecting to get better faster if one doubles the dosage of a medicine..... or thinking that people learn to swim faster if the instructor throws novices in the deep end of the...

The stress level is associated with hormones such as cortisol. Blood tests can measure this, but not in real time in a therapy situation. If you read Van Der Kolk, Cozolino, Schwartz, Levine etc you'll get an idea that PE isn't as successful a therapy as it's made out to be.

Because SUDS is subjective, there isn't an "ideal score". Therapists know that each client has a different SUDS scale, so you can't compare scores across clients. It's like a new vocabulary that's co-created in the therapy room. The background to this comes from Cozolino.... The Neuroscience...

Someone who says they can relieve PTSD in one session is either gullible themselves or manipulative. I've come across several well meaning people making impossible claims for a technique because they have paid thousands for "training" and are caught in a Ponzi situation without realising it...

A good therapist will help you work out why you feel this way. They will also guide you along the path of change. It will take time.... and there will be bumps on the road. The probable objective is to be able to have close relationships, like the one with your therapist without them being...