How Does Change Happen in Therapy?

Is it enough to gain intellectual understanding of our past in order to alter maladaptive emotional responses and behavioural patterns? Intellectual insight is very valuable – it offers us the language to talk about and make sense of our story. However, there is another type of knowing that needs to be mastered – emotional knowing. It involves re-experiencing the pain of the past and re-living the events that wounded us deeply. In this short video, the difference between the intellectual and emotional insight is presented in a clear and accessible way. Enjoy!

This video is from ‘The School of Life’ and you can link directly to the video running on Youtube.

A Short Animated Video About Emotions

This is a beautiful little animated film (7 mins long) about educating ourselves on our emotions and the vital role they play in how we navigate the world. It describes the therapeutic value in learning not to run away from or suppress our emotions, but learn to embrace them by being curious and compassionate about them.

Bottling Our Emotions

This is a beautiful little video which can awaken your inner child and develop simple awareness about how we protect ourselves emotionally-and the accompanying cost of such protection. However, exposing our hearts can feel costly also.

Is your heart kept in a bottle or out in the world or somewhere in between? Where does your heart need to be right now? Maybe your heart needs the protection of the bottle, maybe you need it to be outside the bottle. You are the best judge of your grieving process and where your heart needs to be as you know your own heart better than anyone in this world.

A person-centred psychotherapist will endevour to have a compassionate conversation with you and with your heart irrespective of whether your heart lies inside or outside the bottle.

Enjoy the video

A Short Animated Video About Depression

Here is a useful informational Cartoon Video from the World Health Organisation which creatively illustrates depression and inspires hope for those with the condition - you may find it of some help. It brings a lot of compassion to the condition.