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Originally Posted by Rive.
Maybe your T's approach is not the one you need, at least for now.
I agree that it is important to first feel, name, recognise the particular emotion one is feeling *before* reframing. Is your T practising CBT?
Not all approaches work in changing how one feels. Other approaches focus on accepting whatever it is that one feels, respecting it and exploring it. So, other approaches might suit you better.
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Yeah, I think two approaches that focus more on the emotions themselves at least in part of the therapy are ACT (Acceptance and commitment therapy) and EFT (Emotionally focused therapy).
Both offer tips for exploring emotions and for processing them. I haven't seen anything though that specialises in gaining emotional awareness and feeling the emotions before moving on to more in-depth exploring and understanding them. I assume this is because it may seem like a given to most therapists. But I can assure anyone reading this that it isn't always a given.