Integral Eye Movement Therapy For Long Term Anxiety Treatment
Anxiety sufferers who find that their condition proves to be treatment resistant will often adapt and simply learn to live with the anxiousness. From a therapeutic point of view, this is not the best outcome, but it is something that is too commonly accepted by the therapeutic professions.
In this DVD, Andrew T. Austin outlines and discusses the application of IEMT’s “Three Pillars Model” to long term anxiety conditions. The Three Pillars Model explains the relationship between guilt and anxiety, and between anxiety and anger. By examining the underlying rule structure and emotional chaining that can lead to long term unremitting anxiety, rapid change can result where previously such an outcome would have been unthinkable.
The Three Pillars model doesn’t fit every instance, like everything in IEMT, this is no grand unified theory of therapy. Austin will introduce the question, “…and how familiar is guilt?” when working with chronically anxious clients. More often than not, the client responds immediately in the affirmative. Guilt is a problem. “…and what about anger?” he will also ask. Again, more often than not, the client will respond in the affirmative. Where these questions receive blank looks or prolonged hesitation as the client tries to make their symptoms fit the question, then the Three Pillars model is unlikely to apply and the therapist will need to address the problem from a different angle.
Integral Eye Movement Therapy is a development on the Eye Movement Integration process developed by Steve and Connirae Andreas and is rapidly becoming the treatment model of choice amongst an ever increasing number of brief therapists and mental health professionals.
