[Mactastic]

I do your basic run-of-the-mill talk therapy. This is my first experience with any therapy. My therapist is very Rogerian, meaning our focus is a lot on our relationship and he tends to be pretty real with me, while still maintaining that blank slate. What kind of therapy are you in and what is it like?on an unrelated note I am thinking of taking a break from therapy for a bit. I've grown quite attached to my therapist (tons of erotic transference [though not very sexualized, I only want to be held]) and that worries me .

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I think this is a great time for you(if you feel ready) to not take a break and to embrace this transference you are experiencing.
Have you mentioned it to t before? It sounds like he makes you feel very safe and secure?
Oh and I have done cbt, gestalt and rogerian therapy before and they all had valuable things to offer

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[Mactastic]

Originally Posted by monalisasmile

I think this is a great time for you(if you feel ready) to not take a break and to embrace this transference you are experiencing.
Have you mentioned it to t before? It sounds like he makes you feel very safe and secure?
Oh and I have done cbt, gestalt and rogerian therapy before and they all had valuable things to offer

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Yes, my therapist knows of my feelings, though not the extent. The other day I emailed to say I thought a break was wise, he hasn't responded but I know he will. I hope he mentions the break. He has been wonderful. I went to see another therapist over my transference concerns and he was very supportive about that, saying I had every right to make sure I had the right therapist. I'm in love with "him" and it's painful, scary, humiliating, and confusing.

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[lrt1978]

I have done CBT, that was good got my eating disorder behaviours under control.

But due to me being a complex case I was referred to another psychologist, as we had gone as far as we could with CBT and I am now just in the beginning of Schema Therapy x

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Oh I know those feelings I was hopelessly in love with my t1 and when I finally told her she terminated so I know what a risk it is to be totally honest to the extent of your feelings but sometimes they grow stronger if we keep them in. I am glad I told her because I was true to myself but now I am left with them but I want to work through them with some t but some just aren't able. Your t sounds very open and honest. Would you consider going deeper with him and trying to work through them.
Do you really want a break or are you testing t to see how much he cares?

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[Asiablue]

I'm doing Art Therapy which is psychodynamic in perspective. I really like it. It's hard sitting there drawing or painting or whatever while someone else looks on, but it is a good way to communicate when you don't feel like speaking. A lot of what you do taps into the sub-concious which is interesting too.

[rainbow8]

I don't want to be negative, but I've found that the transference has followed me from T to T. It's hard to predict what kind of T will or won't promote transference. I agree with mona that the best thing to do is to work through the feelings with your current T even though it's hard to do.

I've seen psychodynamic, gestalt, CBT, and my current T, who does IFS (internal family systems), EMDR, and SE(somatic experiencing), with some meditation and art therapy thrown in. I also participated in a DBT group for 3 cycles.

[brillskep]

Transactional analysis. It feels like my T and I speak the same language and think in pretty much the same ways about therapy. Our approach is mostly relational, which means the therapeutic relationship is considered to be central.

[sweepy62]

Originally Posted by Asiablue

I'm doing Art Therapy which is psychodynamic in perspective. I really like it. It's hard sitting there drawing or painting or whatever while someone else looks on, but it is a good way to communicate when you don't feel like speaking. A lot of what you do taps into the sub-concious which is interesting too.

WOW, thats brave, I do my drawings at home then take them to session, I keep them in a folder. We talk mostly, but when I withdraw, she wants to see my drawings, she keeps encouraging me to draw, what I cant speak of my csa, to begin with.
im afraid soon she will ask me to draw something while in session.

[OneWorld]

My T does art therapy too - we did that one time and it was so awkward! She was behind me while I painted and I couldn't come up with anything to paint for at least 10 minutes so we sat there in silence. It was rough. lol I think if I were to try it again now that I know her and myself a little better, it wouldn't be so bad.

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[AmysJourney]

My therapy is person-person centered talk therapy with elements of schema therapy. Our focus is highly on the relationship. We do EMDR sometimes. I am very glad my T is female, it helps me with avoiding certain transference issues and sexualizing the relationship in any way.

[stopdog]

The ones I see advertise as psychodynamic so I assume that is what is going on.
I found CBT to be useless and thought it treated people like they were idiots.(just my experience- if it works for someone else I think it is good.)

[Asiablue]

Originally Posted by sweepy62

WOW, thats brave, I do my drawings at home then take them to session, I keep them in a folder. We talk mostly, but when I withdraw, she wants to see my drawings, she keeps encouraging me to draw, what I cant speak of my csa, to begin with.
im afraid soon she will ask me to draw something while in session.

There's no way i'd be allowed to just bring my art work in. Art therapy is conducted in the presence of an art therapist. She lets me bring work in from home but I need to do art therapy is session. But i realise you're not primarily in art therapy, more talk therapy?

It is hard and awkward to draw in front of someone, it's been the hardest part of my therapy and some days i struggle to even pick up a pencil. I just can't reach out to choose a material. But my T help with that and tries to help me out. It's hard also because i have some drawing ability but i never draw anything remotely good in therapy, it's all scribbles and shapes and crappy little sketches but it's not about being good as i keep getting told, it's about mark making, creating something, externalising your pain, it's about the use of colour and texture and shape and where you place your drawing on the page. Even refusing to draw anything is a communication in itself.

It is scary but it's also a really good tool. Brings up some good discussions.

[Raging Quiet]

I see an intergrative psychodynamic t. We do lots of things; sharing writing and pictures- in session and at bringing from home, meditation, breathwork, bodywork, gestalt chair work, punching cushions... things like that.

[someone321]

My T does psychodynamic, emdr, ego-state etc. approaches... I am not sure which one she uses on me but I guess it's a mix of all of them... She always asks me if there is anything important which I would like to discuss but otherwise she takes the lead and our sessions are pretty well structured (which is totally opposite to my previous t where he didn't talk almost at all). Thus, sometimes I have the feeling that she talks too much and I am bored with her explanations.... Otherwise, she's great

[SmallestFatGirl]

I have no idea what kind I'm in. I should probably ask.

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[SoupDragon]

Core process

[willowbrook]

Not sure, we just talk and he makes observations and guides me towards different insights and understandings.

Let's see-I've been in regular interpersonal-humanistic therapy and CBT before. More recently, it's psychoanalytic/psychodynamic therapy with both former T and current T.

Former T was mostly relational. My T now said I experienced unrequited love in that relationship. It was very painful...but I got a lot from that therapy.

Current T is relational too, but more insight-oriented. He is so intense. As soon as i go quiet, he is right there-"what are you thinking". I mean like for 2 seconds! If I'm acting out, he calls me on it; e.g., "you seem embarrassed."

I can't hide anything from him (which is good for me). And, I'm glad he is much smarter than I am.

I think mine is Psychotherapy, We sometimes do trauma, Mindfulness and talk about anything that is bothering me, Not sure if this Psychotherapy or not.

[healed84]

The kind of Therapy that I have gotten from my T over the two years has changed quiet a bit.. My T is psychodynamic, object relations trained T.. So, we have done a lot of talk therapy, worked on Trauma.. Now we have transitioned to CBT and heading into DBT..

[Willowleaf]

I have body psychotherapy as a lot of my issues are around touch.

[melania]

I'm in psychodynamic therapy.

[sunrise]

My T is a Family Systems therapist. This has been helpful to me when dealing with the problems and relationships in my family. Because of this training, he was also able to see more than one member of my family, for example, my former partner and I did couples therapy for a while. He has a strong background in object relations and the humanistic approach, and I believe these inform all of his work. He considers himself to be a trauma specialist and has about a half dozen interventions/therapies he will use for that. For example, early in my therapy, we did EMDR, somatic experiencing, and ego state therapy. I think my favorite was the ego state therapy. We also have done gestalt dreamwork. He has also had me try things like hitting pillows (one time), but it didn't work, and he said he would not have me do it again. That made me think that he must have a bigger repertoire of approaches than what I ever see. He picks and chooses the ones for each client that he knows (or discovers) will help them. Currently, we mostly just talk and don't do specific techniques. He doesn't do CBT or DBT.

[Mactastic]

Originally Posted by monalisasmile

Do you really want a break or are you testing t to see how much he cares?

You see right through my crap and he probably does, too. No, I don't want to take a break but I'm feeling like I should yet I still want him to invite me to stick it out. It's messy.


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