American Board of Clinical Social Work
MARCH 14, 2024
In Neurodynamic Couples Therapy, exploring feelings is the pathway to metabolizing and integrating them into a cohesive sense of self and relationships and creating a bond of empathy and understanding between partners. The primary technique we use to explore feelings is what we call “following threads.”
Social Work Blog
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
And, improv teachers and therapists cultivate an environment of support, empathy, validation, and a space to improve skills. There’s a term in clinical social work called “meeting the clients where they’re at.” There is a shared idea that it’s ok to be vulnerable and experience an array of emotions.
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American Board of Clinical Social Work
AUGUST 9, 2023
Some forms of therapy purport that this metabolizing can be done nonverbally, but we believe that it takes the translation of right-brain experiences into words in order to adequately and fully create the understanding of self and the other that is necessary for genuine empathy.
American Board of Clinical Social Work
JULY 9, 2023
Robert Stolorow and George Atwood (2018) have written about emotional dwelling as an important expansion of our understanding of empathy. While curiosity can be seen as a left-brain technique of the therapist, since it involves putting feelings into words, emotional dwelling is a right-brain process.
American Board of Clinical Social Work
FEBRUARY 12, 2023
The skilled therapist must work to develop a deeper–and equally balanced–understanding and empathy for both partners’ contributions to their repetitive conflicts. Perhaps the identified patient played the same painful role in their family of origin. Perhaps there are feelings tied to being a “bad guy” or “good guy”.
American Board of Clinical Social Work
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Viscerally experiencing their childhood pain together and voicing their mutual understanding and empathy are the neurobiopsychological mechanisms that “unclog” the partners’ brains and free their energy for permanent growth and development. I have referred to this neurobiopsychological mechanism as the perfect storm in intimate relationships.
American Board of Clinical Social Work
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
The competent therapist deftly moves back and forth between the present and past to stimulate understanding, empathy, and permanent integration of childhood wounds and traumas. The reliving is happening in the present, but its purpose is to reveal the emotions from the past that are being experienced by both partners.
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