EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
EMDR after 8 sessions
NEW EMDR client · 11/03/02 at 12:07 ET
Unfortunately I cannot report any progress after my 8th session; 6 of which involved EMDR exercises. After the first 2 and the "diagonsis" of "blocked feelings" Bioenergetic breathing exercises were introduced. I understand that is supposed to be helpful in getting more in touch with one's body and "feelings." I am disappointed and discouraged. However, after many years of therapy, this is the first time I have felt the therapists is digging in the right yard. We have agreed that should either of us feel that the effort is not progressing, we shall express it so as to find another direction. I am at the verge of that, but want to give it a couple more sessions with some hope of seeing a flicker of indication of progress. I do have a question to throw out on the floor. I understand that the relationship between therapist and client should feel as a "partnership" in the therapy. I don't get much of such a feeling. (Not being aware of many feelings is my problem however... not much gets past the depression). I have expressed as one of my major concerns that, as a commercial artist, I have great difficulty with my creativity, and my work suffers from the laboring to come up with ideas. It has occured to me that as a therapist I would want to know how serious this problem might be, and/or if the client was actually an artist or a "wanna be." I would ask to see some of the art work to get some perspective of the client as an artist. She has not asked to see any of my work. Is this a valid point, or am I just looking "validation?"
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