It's a flipping revolution

I'm back from another Rapid Resolution Therapy training. One of the things I noticed while there was this question from other therapists: "How often do you use this in your practice?" I'm asked this question in a multitude of ways reasonably often. Especially from other mental health professionals. I'm also asked to just tell people what it is so they can decide if it would be helpful to their practice/job. Well I heard an amazing woman say, at this training, "It's not a flipping modality, It's a flipping revolution." (yes this has been censored for your reading pleasure!) This young woman, Valerie Smith, is doing her thing to become a Licensed therapist and has been fortunate enough to find Rapid Resolution Therapy BEFORE she got to graduate school.
Now I'm sure you ask why did I say she was fortunate to get this before graduate school? Here's the thing, when you're in graduate school they pound into your brain this paradigm, or framework, for what counseling is and what it is like for someone who has mental instability. Let me pair it down even further- the people (the clients) you will see (the therapist) are messed up and broken. You can't fix them, but you can show them empathy and caring and that will ease the pain. That's what everyone gets to learn in graduate school. Well no wonder so many people are wary of coming to see a counselor. Who wants to be left feeling like their broken and un-fixable? So for those of us who have gone through graduate school and worked out in this field we have a pretty heavy framework or, paradigm, about counseling. When you begin to learn Rapid Resolution Therapy Dr. Connelly will tell you to forget all your other training and just think about the world, clients, people, the human brain, the way he's going to explain it. And it's different and unusual from what you currently think you know is the truth about the world.
What begins to happen, the more you train with Dr. Connelly is that your framework is totally busted and burned in some metaphorical fire-pit and a whole new one is constructed. This framework begins to encompass your entire life. Not just how you view your clients, but how you view others in your world and the human world at large. Suddenly you see and know how with Rapid Resolution Therapy you can dramatically impact people because you can fix what has been stuck for them. (Read carefully: before it was you can't fix what was broke NOW you can fix what was stuck) Man how powerful is that? Not just for a therapist but for the client to come see a mental health professional who can fix the small little problematic way that their mind has been working. It's just like a computer glitch, it's fixable. That's why every counselor and social worker got into this field, to make things better! If you have the ability to fix things of course things get better.
So yeah- "It's not a flipping modality, It's a flipping revolution." The majority of treatment in mental health/substance abuse does a lot to secretly enable people to stay stuck. I know social workers doing Rapid Resolution Therapy in ER settings loosing their jobs because a person came in suicidal/depressed, they spent 15 minutes clearing the trauma that caused the emotional reaction and sent the patient home only to find the ER Doc was mad because they lost a patient that could have been hospitalized? How ef'ed up is that? They went home healthy, but it would have been better to keep them stuck in that trauma so the hospital could fill a bed???
And to answer the question how often do I use RRT? All the time, everyday, everywhere. With every client that comes through my counseling door, my daughter, my husband, my friends...the list goes on and on. It's not modality, it's a way of life.
On a side note I'm so excited and grateful to have met Valerie Smith at this training. I have no doubt she's going to be a force to reckon with and I plan to watch her revolutionize the mental health field, and I'm darn sure going to help her do it!
Ok- now to take a deep breath...my next Rapid Resolution Therapy post is going to help you understand how this becomes the framework for everything in life...

Be well, Be happy-Tara S. Dickherber, M.Ed, CPC
PS I have revised this post to give credit where credit is due, Dr. Jason Quintal is the genius who helped me see how RRT is a new paradigm/framework...He also was sweet enough to pop on a comment on this post!! Thanks Jason, I am honored!

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