Person Centered

[Freedomfighter]

Hi all

Does anyone have any experience of person centered therapy? im due to start soon and ju...

Your T most likely wants to use the method that is more helpful to you. Many people are comfortable talking about their stressors and they give the T a pretty good idea what goes on in their lives. However there are other types of patients with additional factors that would not allow such an approach.
For instance if the patient is in present danger and still experiences attacks, is being stalked, and/or is autistic, like me, then that approach would not be very helpful.
I am autistic and often I am simply unable to vocalize what is happening around me. A good doctor would see that, however there are other factors too. This is what I am thinking: imagine you are the patient and going through different stages: the trauma stage: in that stage the patient is in shock and most certainly might not be able to vocalize very effectively.... in that case the patient has to be helped to talk about it, the patient has to be prompted to share the trauma.
Then there are other stages: I will give examples based on my own stages. In the trauma stage I can only survive and will totally retract, so even a person centered approach would not do much good. Then there are the stages when a patient goes through flashbacks..... another period in which the patient can actually completely mix up present and past and make mistakes, even a person approach would not touch on those areas. Then there are the other stages..... fear and anger often limits the patient to very small interactions around them anyways.

It takes a very smart person to figure out what is best for a patient. And in my opinion it changes all the time too.

I am finally exiting a stage in which I did not know what really happened and a last very traumatic experience ignited my brain cells and showed me exactly what happened in the past.

I am allowed to learn about it, to see the real truth, real help, not like the bozos that I talk to everyday. I don't want to talk to the Bozos, they can go where the sun don't shine. I only want to communicate with truth, with understanding, with help.
I am very lucky that I am allowed to learn all of this, very lucky indeed. I want to completely disconnect now from the liars and I want to face a future in which truth is the reality.

 

[FireSign8]

Years ago this was referred to as "patient led therapy" & it worked wonders for me. I was able to trace back to the root of where my original trauma caused me to become stuck in time & I was able to start the healing process. It cost me a ton of money & I don't think I would have been able to survive if I had not come across a therapist who took a chance with a somewhat "new" approach to therapy.

 

[Crow]

My T uses this but combines other modalities like somatic experiencing, brainspotting, emdr. I lead the pace. It's a slow approach, or can be. Recently we've been moving at record pace.