Cerys Love PsyD - Mirror Experiential Therapy

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Your new client has told you why they are seeking your help, but it is also important to complete a brief pre-therapy assessment for at least three reasons: 1) as long as you use evidence-based assessment tools, you are establishing the first step towards a gold standard research foundation for the psychotherapy you perform with your client, which helps not only your psychotherapist colleagues constantly improve, but establishes client improvement, which is what ultimately matters; 2) pre-therapy assessment may deepen your understanding of the client’s baseline situation, possibly uncovering more than the client already shared, which helps you do your job more effectively; and 3) the tools recommended for use in Mirror Experiential Therapy are actually designed to provide you with an inventory of the existing bio-psycho-social-spiritual resource capital clients already have in their lives that they can tap into and that you can build upon….

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Editor's Notes Standing upon The Love Rule as a philosophical theoretical foundation, and Mirror Psychology as a clinical and social psychological theory, Mirror Experiential Therapy provides the application for psychotherapists to implement within their practice. The latest neuroscience and bio-psycho-social-spiritual research illustrate that loving something bigger than ourselves, loving ourselves, and loving our neighbors as we love ourselves in that order truly is all humanity needs to flourish. The concept is over 2000 years old - and yet is as revolutionary and relevant now as it was then - regardless of what you believe or don't believe about its author. As a pragmatic minimalist pulling the latest research thread in search of truth about optimal relationships with self and humanity, this doctor of clinical psychology is surprised to find that scientific thread circling back to this concept. It is not new. It is not sexy. What works is the point - and as a philosophical theoretical foundation for clinical as well as social psychology theory, and then as an applied concept for psychotherapy blended with experiential therapy, this works with elegant simplicity.
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