FIRE your therapist! If your therapy does not CHANGE your brain it is a failure and may actually be harming you.
Fire Your Therapist|
FIRE YOUR THERAPIST! If your therapy does not CHANGE your brain it is a failure and may actually be harming you. With effective therapy the therapist’s way of being (is she secure and sound in herself), her intentions, and her paying attention, put into motion a process that facilitates the client’s brain, neurons, and body changing. In neurologicial terms this is called re-wiring.
With every experience we have, the brain fires off a chemical reaction or electrical impulses are sent across synapses and this is what causes us to feel a certain way. For instance, cocaine "re-wires" the brain as it causes the neurons to send dopamine across the synapse, and of course, this creates a pleasurable sensation. The downfall of this is that an external drug is required to cause this sensation and may cause dependency. In the same way, without dependency, a therapeutic experience can generate very similar responses in the brain.
Here, when the client can sense that the therapist has the best of intentions to connect emotionally with him, and the therapist holds the client in her own mind and heart even in the first session, even on the phone prior to first meeting, then this changes the chemical reactions in the brain (of both participants). Neurons will start firing in a new and different way which is most beneficial to the client.
Research has shown that the therapeutic technique is not as important as what the therapist does to create a mutual relationship where the client is understood for what he is feeling, thinking, and viewing things in his life. The c;lient can also tell that the therapist cares and is being genuine.
