Be well, Be happy-
Tara S. Dickherber, LPC
Senior Certified Practitioner in Rapid Resolution Therapy®
Showing posts with label Addictions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Addictions. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Questions answered part 1
Be well, Be happy-
Tara S. Dickherber, LPC
Senior Certified Practitioner in Rapid Resolution Therapy®
Monday, May 21, 2012
The exceptions
It has repeatedly been brought to light in my private practice lately the exceptions to the effectiveness of RRT. I thought this may be a great time to review when RRT is likely not an effective option for a potential client...
1) if the person is not OK with being OK. I know that sounds weird, who would call to schedule a therapy appointment that doesn't want to be healthier?! It happens though. Sometimes it's around anger, the person thinks that they have to be angry because of what happened to them or that anger gives them power or the drive to do this or that. I'm here to tell you, in a very short time, anger sets your logical brain off line, I can not think of ANY time it is helpful to be angry outside of a dog attacking my child and then anger MAY give me the strength to get that dog off my child. Sometimes it's because someone is grieving and they think if their not grieving then they are not honoring their loved one. Well I'm pretty sure that loved one is all about the griever being healthy and joyful versus miserably grief stricken. Once I was even told, by a client, that it wasn't OK to be OK because no one would love her if she was healthy. Lastly many people think they must feel guilty. Let me just give one example...when we put a criminal in jail do they typically come out a better citizen or better criminal?
2) You have to be honest with me. You have to be ready to put the traumas on the table to be cleared. Think about a trauma like a dirty, cluttered room in your house with the door closed and locked. If you hire a house keeper and tell her to clean your entire house EXCEPT that room, well that room's going to continue to be a mess. But then you complain to her that she didn't clean that room...Come on now you locked her out of it. This happens to me. People put on the table what they are willing to put on the table, but if your avoiding the biggest trauma (or mess in this house) the work I do may not be as effective as we were looking for it to be.
3) Organic brain stuff- such as a traumatic brain injury, dementia, on-going psychosis, certain medications like anti-psychotics. It can also be helpful if you are taking anti-anxiety medications like Valium, Xanax, Ativan to not take your dose before your session.
4) On-going use/abuse of drugs or alcohol. Check this image out, it's a brain can of someone with long standing alcohol abuse. Note the "holes" those are not seen in a "normal brain." Yes any RRT therapist can work with someone with addiction issues. However to fully get the benefit of RRT one needs to be detoxed, with alcohol or Benzodiazepines (Xanax, Valium, etc) one HAS to be medically detoxed first!!
5) Lastly if there is a clinical mental health issue I'm finding that to fully get the benefit of RRT the client must be on and compliant with their medications. Like for example depression, there are times depression is situational, but if this has been a life long issue consider how medications can improve the outcome of an RRT session.
Be well, Be joyful-
Tara S. Dickherber, LPC
Certified Rapid Resolution Therapy® therapist
Executive Director of the Institute for Survivors of Sexual Violence™
1) if the person is not OK with being OK. I know that sounds weird, who would call to schedule a therapy appointment that doesn't want to be healthier?! It happens though. Sometimes it's around anger, the person thinks that they have to be angry because of what happened to them or that anger gives them power or the drive to do this or that. I'm here to tell you, in a very short time, anger sets your logical brain off line, I can not think of ANY time it is helpful to be angry outside of a dog attacking my child and then anger MAY give me the strength to get that dog off my child. Sometimes it's because someone is grieving and they think if their not grieving then they are not honoring their loved one. Well I'm pretty sure that loved one is all about the griever being healthy and joyful versus miserably grief stricken. Once I was even told, by a client, that it wasn't OK to be OK because no one would love her if she was healthy. Lastly many people think they must feel guilty. Let me just give one example...when we put a criminal in jail do they typically come out a better citizen or better criminal?
2) You have to be honest with me. You have to be ready to put the traumas on the table to be cleared. Think about a trauma like a dirty, cluttered room in your house with the door closed and locked. If you hire a house keeper and tell her to clean your entire house EXCEPT that room, well that room's going to continue to be a mess. But then you complain to her that she didn't clean that room...Come on now you locked her out of it. This happens to me. People put on the table what they are willing to put on the table, but if your avoiding the biggest trauma (or mess in this house) the work I do may not be as effective as we were looking for it to be.
3) Organic brain stuff- such as a traumatic brain injury, dementia, on-going psychosis, certain medications like anti-psychotics. It can also be helpful if you are taking anti-anxiety medications like Valium, Xanax, Ativan to not take your dose before your session.
4) On-going use/abuse of drugs or alcohol. Check this image out, it's a brain can of someone with long standing alcohol abuse. Note the "holes" those are not seen in a "normal brain." Yes any RRT therapist can work with someone with addiction issues. However to fully get the benefit of RRT one needs to be detoxed, with alcohol or Benzodiazepines (Xanax, Valium, etc) one HAS to be medically detoxed first!!
5) Lastly if there is a clinical mental health issue I'm finding that to fully get the benefit of RRT the client must be on and compliant with their medications. Like for example depression, there are times depression is situational, but if this has been a life long issue consider how medications can improve the outcome of an RRT session.
Be well, Be joyful-
Tara S. Dickherber, LPC
Certified Rapid Resolution Therapy® therapist
Executive Director of the Institute for Survivors of Sexual Violence™
Friday, April 22, 2011
Research is proving what RRT therapists know
I was notified by Facebook the other day that I was tagged in a note by a fellow Rapid Resolution Therapist. So of course I read the note, and this is what it said:
"Just returned from the annual California Association of Alcohol & Drug Educators (CAADE) conference. One of the presenters talked about current brain imaging research. His entire presentation was about the difference between the "conscious" part of the mind vs. the deeper inner mind or "emotional" part. He discussed how current treatments like Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy do not address this deeper part of the mind (goat brain). He discussed how they are trying to develop medications to work on this area of the brain. Rapid Resolution Therapy does this quickly, effortlessly, and painlessly without the need for medication." -Dr. John K. Smith, Ph.D (as posted in a note on Facebook)
Dr. Smith is an amazing RRT therapist out in sunny California. I have been fortunate enough to attend trainings with him and just adore him personally and professionally. When I read his note I immediately asked if I could borrow his words and share them on my little blog. (Obviously he said yes!)
Our human mind is very complex. About 99% of it is subconscious mind, or goat mind as Dr. Smith noted. Only about 1% is conscious mind. In RRT we address that goat mind. Why? Because it controls all emotions, behaviors, and most of you (and my) thoughts. Thus that's the part of the mind responsible for acting out, feeling those yucky feelings, and responding to thoughts that really have not been helpful. That 1% conscious mind is about as big as a snowflake and it's responsible for some of your thoughts and for when you learn new things or difficult things (like trying to learn trigonometry.) It just makes sense that if the subconscious mind is the part of the mind creating those feelings, behaviors, and thoughts someone no longer wants to have then clear the part of the mind that's making those things happen. Like if your car needs a tune up don't have the mechanic put a new muffler on, have him tune up the car!
I know some don't see how powerful and effective Rapid Resolution Therapy is, but science is starting to show what I already know...eventually others will see what I see.
Be well, Be happy- Tara S. Dickherber, M.Ed, CPC
"Just returned from the annual California Association of Alcohol & Drug Educators (CAADE) conference. One of the presenters talked about current brain imaging research. His entire presentation was about the difference between the "conscious" part of the mind vs. the deeper inner mind or "emotional" part. He discussed how current treatments like Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy do not address this deeper part of the mind (goat brain). He discussed how they are trying to develop medications to work on this area of the brain. Rapid Resolution Therapy does this quickly, effortlessly, and painlessly without the need for medication." -Dr. John K. Smith, Ph.D (as posted in a note on Facebook)
Dr. Smith is an amazing RRT therapist out in sunny California. I have been fortunate enough to attend trainings with him and just adore him personally and professionally. When I read his note I immediately asked if I could borrow his words and share them on my little blog. (Obviously he said yes!)
Our human mind is very complex. About 99% of it is subconscious mind, or goat mind as Dr. Smith noted. Only about 1% is conscious mind. In RRT we address that goat mind. Why? Because it controls all emotions, behaviors, and most of you (and my) thoughts. Thus that's the part of the mind responsible for acting out, feeling those yucky feelings, and responding to thoughts that really have not been helpful. That 1% conscious mind is about as big as a snowflake and it's responsible for some of your thoughts and for when you learn new things or difficult things (like trying to learn trigonometry.) It just makes sense that if the subconscious mind is the part of the mind creating those feelings, behaviors, and thoughts someone no longer wants to have then clear the part of the mind that's making those things happen. Like if your car needs a tune up don't have the mechanic put a new muffler on, have him tune up the car!
I know some don't see how powerful and effective Rapid Resolution Therapy is, but science is starting to show what I already know...eventually others will see what I see.
Be well, Be happy- Tara S. Dickherber, M.Ed, CPC
Friday, February 4, 2011
Addictive personalities
Another great quote from Valerie Smith about addiction and how Rapid Resolution Therapy is a remarkable treatment for addictions:
There is a common misconception about people with "addictive personalities"; this term is thrown around to insinuate that there is something defective about a person. Many people have so-called "coping" behaviors that they would like to stop doing. Instead of labeling, my powerful technique stops the unwanted behavior and makes room for things people would be more into having in their lives. Its just that simple.
-Valerie Smith
freetobeALIVE@yahoo.com
Offices in Ft. Lauderdale & West Palm Beach
561-891-9322
FreeToBeAlivebyValerieSmith
Be well, Be happy-Tara S. Dickherber, M.Ed, CPC
There is a common misconception about people with "addictive personalities"; this term is thrown around to insinuate that there is something defective about a person. Many people have so-called "coping" behaviors that they would like to stop doing. Instead of labeling, my powerful technique stops the unwanted behavior and makes room for things people would be more into having in their lives. Its just that simple.
-Valerie Smith
freetobeALIVE@yahoo.com
Offices in Ft. Lauderdale & West Palm Beach
561-891-9322
FreeToBeAlivebyValerieSmith
Be well, Be happy-Tara S. Dickherber, M.Ed, CPC
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