Barnwell, Joe

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One of the ways that I use TE practice in my individual therapy is the inclusion of movement and action as it relates to the emotional and thinking aspects of your experience. For example you may have an urge to push away "your offender". Rather than just talk about it we would, when appropriate, do some actual pushing movements to engage the body and nervous system more fully. As well, I use the here and now focus of TE therapy.

Since my primary approach to therapy is Sensorimotor therapy , and I do not use Therapeutic Enactment(TE) in my individual therapy practice you might wonder why I even mention my experience with TE. It is because my work with TE has given me a deeper understanding of the body-mind connection. Because of my exposure to TE, when working with you I am more aware of the body and physical part of your experience and where the potential is to work with that. This is especially important when working with the effects of trauma.

It is through this work with TE that I had my first exposure in the early 90's to the value of using and noticing movement when working with trauma. The basic idea of TE is to provide "the client" with a "community", (the group), in which he/she can safely construct a situation that allows action based therapy. It involves acting out the traumatic situation in a carefully controlled and safe environment in order to avoid re-traumatization. In individual therapy it is the therapeutic relationship with the therapist that provides the container for the work rather than a group.

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