(Brand New!!) Schema Therapy for Presentations of Complicated Grief with Wendy Behary
Abstract: Grief takes on many shapes and sensations within the brain and body, and when schemas and modes join the chorus it becomes a complex experience. Through the lens of schema therapy, we identify the prominent "stuck places" individuals find themselves residing in, unable to move with their grief; complications anchored in early life experiences. Schemas get fertilized and triggered by loss events, pushing forth guilt, blame, shame, unhealthy loyalties, pathological fears, the inner critic, and more. Self-defeating coping modes and Critic modes get activated and the healing path for grief is a prickly obstructed path. We will look at strategies like “future imagery” that can help clients, who are suffering with complex grief, take small steps forward, identify the obstacles, and begin to bypass these stuck places as we dip back into the necessary rescripting of early life experiences and meeting the unmet needs that block the necessary grief path.
Course•By Graham Kell
