An Ericksonian therapist assumes that most of the time the resources needed for successful treatment are within the client. Sometimes resources have never been recognized or properly employed. Sometimes resources need to be shuffled about and rearranged or liberated from whatever is restricting them. Sometimes a potential needs to be fed so it can blossom.
This approach to hypnosis and psychotherapy acknowledges the dynamics of interpersonal and intrapersonal relationship active during treatment. The therapist respectfully interacts with a client's conscious and unconscious mind. The client's conscious and unconscious minds interact with each other. Relational dynamics are quite complex and communication is always taking place at some level.
An Ericksonian therapist assumes that most of the time the resources needed for successful treatment are within the client. Sometimes resources have never been recognized or properly employed. Sometimes resources need to be shuffled about and rearranged or liberated from whatever is restricting them. Sometimes a potential needs to be fed so it can blossom.
This approach to hypnosis and psychotherapy acknowledges the dynamics of interpersonal and intrapersonal relationship active during treatment. The therapist respectfully interacts with a client's conscious and unconscious mind. The client's conscious and unconscious minds interact with each other. Relational dynamics are quite complex and communication is always taking place at some level.
The therapeutic work may take place in a very straight forward fashion or it may be indirect. Indirect approaches may involve metaphor, story telling, paradoxical homework assignments, use of ambiguous language and more.
The Ericksonian therapist's goal directed expectancy of change helps uncover health and an awareness of choice.
The therapeutic work may take place in a very straight forward fashion or it may be indirect. Indirect approaches may involve metaphor, story telling, paradoxical homework assignments, use of ambiguous language and more.
The Ericksonian therapist's goal directed expectancy of change helps uncover health and an awareness of choice.