by BabaYaga 35 Replies latest members private
Interesting. Thanks for the meditation tip, Satanus... I am already meditating every night, and it has helped tremendously.
I will look into the focused meditation concept. Sounds messy... but then again getting this stuff out there isn't going to be fun or pretty.
Thank you.
It can get very messy, like a storm it's aftermath. It's good to have a support net available. But, the pain does mostly go away, afterward. After you have gone far enough, then you can stop the effort. Supposedly some people have gone back as far as their births.
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There are a lot of people out there assuming roles of therapist and counsellors who do not belong to professional bodies and who are not professionally trained or supervised and who are not ethically accountable for their practice. Some of them may be perfectly okay in their practice, but I'd be wary of seeing a therapist on the basis of their "paper" claims - especially if they are afiliated with religious groups.
A registered therapist, by definition, belongs to a professional body and is accountable for following his/her discipline's code of practice. Steer clear of any therapist who expects you to keep coming week-after-week-after-week in the absence of 1)carefully listening to you and assessing what your "treatment" needs are, 2) provide a clear, written rationale for their therapy, 3) solicit from you your own life goals that therapy could help you with and 4)have provision for reviewing progress. Therapy with a registered clinical psychologist, for example, is based on throrough assessment, case formulation (i.e., identifying what has caused your problems/difficulties and proposed therapy to address those difficulties). Above all, the registered psychologist is accountable for their practice to a professional body so that if anything occurs in therapy - or as a result of therapy - that is questionable, or worse, inappropriate, you have provsion for complaint.
steve2 said: " There are a lot of people out there assuming roles of therapist and counsellors who do not belong to professional bodies and who are not professionally trained or supervised and who are not ethically accountable for their practice."
Yeah, I know those kinds of "professional counsellors", they're called "congregation elders".
Baba, don't go to the elders for "counsel". However, if you need windows washed or toilets cleaned, you might consider calling an elder... maybe, maybe not.
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Thearipists are limited in what they can do, unless they themselves have experinced the same. What they know, for the most part, comes from classrooms and books. The best one can do is associate with those that have gone through what you yourself have.
At the sametime you yourself have to have a strong desire to break free of that "thing" which enslaves you. Otherwise no counciler/therapist in the world will be of benifit. Except to themselves and the money they garner for their sessions.
