It is a universal truth that life can be incredibly challenging. It can, and often does, throw us into painful and upsetting situations that we did not ask for, and are sometimes ill-equipped to deal with. That being the case, understandably, we don’t always respond in ways that serve us best in the long term. […]
Using Metaphors and Imagery in Therapy
Therapists seem to use metaphors, analogies and imagery as therapeutic interventions so naturally that it is easy to even miss that it is ‘an intervention’. Likening our human experience to an image, object, or situation is a common way to convey complex, hard to describe experiences in a way others will comprehend. In fact, it […]