Two of the skills I often use with clients are Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Ego State Therapy. Clients are typically resistant to recognizing that the way they cope with their environment continues to be the result of how they learned to cope in the home as children. I do a lot of work with clients with severe dissociative disorders, which typically means they experienced significant childhood trauma and have very little trust. I have found ego state therapy to be the most effective method for working with those clients. Everyone dissociates to some degree. For most of us we become detached from our surroundings if we are reading a good book or watching an enthralling movie. That is one end of the dissociative spectrum. Those who have a dissociative disorder are at the other end of the spectrum and will have a more complete separation of ego states that gives them as sense of being fragmented. I have found that being able to work within the ego state arena I am able to much more quickly and effectively address the issues of the client. The initial objective in the work is containment of the parts with integration of the egos states the final objective. When this occurs life requires much less effort. It is no longer necessary to filter out all of the information coming in when they are trying to make a decision or response to stimuli.
A path to wholeness