[Wren_]

what style (or styles) of therapy does your T practice?

if that style didn't work for you have they adopted a different style or suggested you try a different therapist?

if their style isn't working have you mentioned it? and if it is, what do you find helpful about it compared to other styles especially if you've tried more than one kind

My T is fairly eclectic with a behavioral bent I guess. He uses what is needed at the time for whatever has come up and needs to be worked on. I've never been in a therapy situation where the "style" was really defined. My therapists have all been pretty flexible in their methods.

[Wren_]

I kind of wish I could find that Chris, sometimes I think I have because they aren't always upfront about the therapy style or hint at mixing things but then I find later that it is fairly well defined.

[stopdog]

The one I see advertises as psychodynamic/eclectic.
The style I refuse to do again, and that was a disaster and not useful (admitted to by the cbt person) when tried, was cbt.

[Wren_]

thanks stopdog; I've seen a number of people mention they didn't find cbt helpful

I liked what I learnt from it but found I needed more than just that

[Miswimmy1]

Originally Posted by tigergirl

what style (or styles) of therapy does your T practice?

if that style didn't work for you have they adopted a different style or suggested you try a different therapist?

if their style isn't working have you mentioned it? and if it is, what do you find helpful about it compared to other styles especially if you've tried more than one kind

My therapist does CBT (cognitive behavior therapy). Specifically with me, we have been doing EX/RP (exposure therapy) for OCD. It's an effective way to treat OCD so far, but she definitely has a different style than some of the other behavior therapists I've seen in the past. I can't really explain it. I think that her style might be more effective though if she tried to have a more personal relationship with the client. I had that in the past and that was a big source of motivation for me. With this t I have now, I feel no emotional connection to her or what we are working on, so I just go through the motions. I feel like I might be able to have a greater benefit if I was engaged emotionally.

Mine does psychoanalyst. What's not to work with that? No gimmicks just you sharing your self.
CBT will be found out for the con it is eventually.

CBT is effective for many people. What's unfortunate is that in some countries - including Sweden and, I think, the UK - it has become the Huge Hot Style which is recommended by officialdom for everybody. I think that is because it seems to be quantifiable: meet your T 12 times and learn new behaviours and you will become a productive member of society! (That's not all there is to CBT, I do know that. But it's how itis often presented.) And as I say, many times it is effective. But many times it's not, and there's a fierce idiological divide at many psychotherapy educational institutes, between cognitive behaviouralists and psychodynamic therapists - this is what it's like in Sweden anyway. That really can't be helpful for the patients.

Anyway, for me, psychodynamic therapy seems to be useful.

[Hope-Full]

T1 is purely psychodynamic, and a non-traditional one at that as T is unlike (in a very, very good way) any of my previous psychodynamic Ts before!

T2 is DBT..... and I'm still undecided about it.

[sweepy62]

my t is psychodynamic ecletic cbt, it works for me I work on past and present right now working on past but i say whatever comes to mind, one session could be spend on whatever is bothering me on the here and now, which kind of links to the past anyways.

[healed84]

My t is psychodynamic with speciality in object relations.. He also brings in a lot of different t styles though, he is not stuck in one area which I like.

[stopdog]

To be clear, I did not find cbt useful at all for me, but I am not saying I think it can never be useful for anyone.

[Rzay4]

My first T was mainly psychodynamic but adjusted to behavioral when I requested.

[tinyrabbit]

My T trained in a range of approaches including psychodynamic and Gestalt. He then became an integrative relational body psychotherapist. I had no idea what that meant before I started. Turns out it's a perfect fit for me.

My T is CBT, but doesn't believe CBT should be limited to JUST learning skills. We talk about coping skills and grounding, etc, but we also discuss my FOO issues, etc. He says too many people (including some therapists) think CBT cannot be an in depth skill of therapy as well.

[HealingTimes]

Mine says that she does humanistic, integretive therapy.