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New Therapy Technique: Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) teaches you simple methods to dissolve emotional pain, trauma, anxiety, grief, frustration, stress and many other unpleasant emotions and painful memories. EFT treats a myriad of emotions and individuals’ issues; creating rapid transformation of damaging beliefs and behaviors. Through EFT, practitiers have discovered how the energetic system is the missing link to healing core issues.  EFT is effective for helping curb addictive urges and manage cravings, reducing anxiety, managing stress, and managing physical pain.

Each session of EFT is strenghtened by using cognitive restructuring and positive affirmations. The Emotional Freedom Technique is used primarily to alleviate the effects of trauma and grief, as these conditions often times result in Complex PTSD and other complications in relationships and day-to-day functioning. EFT addresses core belief systems that have formed as a result of tramatic events, by restructuring limiting and sabatoging beliefs.EFT has resulted in dramatic shifts in thought processes about oneself, regulated emotions, and reduced overall intensity of tramatic “triggering” that can snow-ball into self-sabatoging behaviors.

The result is a more stable self, having created positive choice statements that move oneself into a positive frame and more effective behavioral responses.  If you are interested in personal transformation, managing stress and inner happiness, EFT is an positive coping skill that would be worth exploring.  EFT is truly phenomenal and opens our experience to self empowerment, spiritual growth and lasting change.

For mental health therapy and counseling in the Winter Park, Orlando areas, call 407.835.3673 today!

The casting producer of the show “Obsessed” contacted me looking for individuals who would like to be casted in this TV show. In case you are unfamiliar, it is a documentary-style program that follows the treatment of patients battling Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

This show is looking for participants who really need help and are seeking Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to assist them in regaining control of their lives. If a person is cast they receive 12 weeks of treatment in the form of group and individual therapy, at no expense, from experts in the field.

The most important thing to note is that the show is not exploitative or sensationalized. Rather, the show follows individuals’ treatment and hopefully their ultimate success. Season 1 saw 18 of 22 participants successful with their treatment while all 22 agreed that going on the show was a great experience.

The show also casts for other debilitating orders such as Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. If you or someone you know could benefit, pass the word on! The casting producer’s information is below, and you can e-mail her directly.

E-mail: MHallidencasting@gmail.com                      http://www.aetv.com/obsessed/

For counseling and therapy in the Winter Park and Orlando areas, please call 407.835.3673 for appointments and questions.

On Anxiety: Being Alone versus Lonely

As the sun sets, something happens and anxiety sets in for so many people. Maybe it’s the still of the night, the impending darkness, or the sense that one is going to spend another night alone. One goal is to ease the shift or chasm between being by yourself and being with someone who is giving you the love you have always wanted (emotional intimacy). One step in this is to become more at ease being alone, because being by yourself is inevitable whether it is for five minutes, a week, or months. Alone is a physical state, while feeing lonely is a mental state. You can be alone and not be lonely, and that’s one key is to find solace in being alone, even though you may always prefer to be in the presence of love, attention, and/or energy that makes you feel alive. To find some more ease and comfort in being alone (to ease the lonliness) you would reframe what it means to be by yourself. In other words, re-think what it means for you- It doesn’t mean the same as it did when you were a child. As a baby or child it meant you could die, and you had no control whatsoever- you were completely dependent. If you received very inconsistent attention as a child, was left alone or abaonded, or abused in any way, then you had no idea when the next “fix” would be- the “fix” being attention from your caregiver or parent. So now it may bring those same feelings of panic back as an adult when a loved one leaves, and may send one into “control freak” mode because as a child, there was no control over the amount or quality of attention and love received. Some of us may have found that the only way to control the attention we got was to throw a temper tantrum. So now as an adult in trying to conduct adult relationships, we may throw a temper tantrum of sorts in the form of rage, emotional blackmail, sadness or depression, or anxiety, triggered by someone who leaves you because he or she is repelled or fearful of any form of agression which was transferred from childhood by his or her parents. This aggression, anxiety or worry you show pushes your partner away and makes you worse. If your parents had been more consistent in the way they loved you or showed their attention to you and loved you well, without neglect, competition, neediness, or abuse, then you would have been able to regulate your emotion better with the internalization of “My parents are coming back soon so I’m okay with them leaving now.” Nothing has changed for the insecure-ambivalent attached child or the securely attached child because people are always going to come and go from our lives, whether for five minutes, 10 hours, or forever. But the securely attached child is better able to handle it because they internalized the representation of consistent love in the hearts and minds.

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