Witnessing clients' emotional transformation: an emotion-focused therapist's experience of providing therapy.

Abstract:

:Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is an integrative-humanistic, research-informed, psychological intervention characterized by sustained focus on the client's emotional pain and its transformation. This article discusses the impacts on the therapist when encountering and transforming the client's vulnerability. It is organized around the different phases of the therapy process: meeting a new client, accessing the client's core emotional pain, transforming the client's emotional pain, and ending the therapeutic work. The article also contains personal experiences of the author and provides illustrations of impactful events from therapy sessions. The work, it is suggested, provides significant learning for the therapist on both a personal and a professional level, leading, for example, to the therapist's maturation, better connection with personal hurts and vulnerabilities, greater courage in regard to sharing such feelings, greater kindness toward others and the self, and greater determination to be braver when facing adversity or injustice.

journal_name

J Clin Psychol

authors

Timulak L

doi

10.1002/jclp.22109

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-08-01 00:00:00

pages

741-52

issue

8

eissn

0021-9762

issn

1097-4679

journal_volume

70

pub_type

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