00:05 🛑 Detecting Barriers to Committed Action Exploring barriers to committed action in therapy sessions. Working with a client struggling with relationship issues due to past betrayals. Uncovering fear of vulnerability hindering the ability to move forward in relationships. 05:11 🛣 Pain as a Guide in Committed Action Highlighting pain as a guide in committed action, indicating both caring and past hurts. Emphasizing that avoiding pain also leads to avoiding what one truly cares about. Looping barriers into patterns of committed action rather than total avoidance. 09:08 🚧 Missed Opportunity in Addressing Barriers Critiquing the crude handling of barriers in therapy sessions. Emphasizing the need to address and integrate barriers into the therapeutic work instead of dismissing them. Highlighting the necessity of a more sophisticated implementation of the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) model.
00:05 Detecting barriers to committed action involves addressing past betrayals and fear of vulnerability, hindering intimacy in relationships. 05:11 Pain serves as a guide in committed action, indicating care and past hurts; avoiding pain means avoiding what one truly cares about. 08:49 Setting behavioral goals and acknowledging the discomfort involved are essential steps in overcoming barriers; dismissing barriers leads to a crude implementation of therapeutic techniques.
00:05 🛑 Detecting Barriers to Committed Action
Exploring barriers to committed action in therapy sessions.
Working with a client struggling with relationship issues due to past betrayals.
Uncovering fear of vulnerability hindering the ability to move forward in relationships.
05:11 🛣 Pain as a Guide in Committed Action
Highlighting pain as a guide in committed action, indicating both caring and past hurts.
Emphasizing that avoiding pain also leads to avoiding what one truly cares about.
Looping barriers into patterns of committed action rather than total avoidance.
09:08 🚧 Missed Opportunity in Addressing Barriers
Critiquing the crude handling of barriers in therapy sessions.
Emphasizing the need to address and integrate barriers into the therapeutic work instead of dismissing them.
Highlighting the necessity of a more sophisticated implementation of the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) model.
00:05 Detecting barriers to committed action involves addressing past betrayals and fear of vulnerability, hindering intimacy in relationships.
05:11 Pain serves as a guide in committed action, indicating care and past hurts; avoiding pain means avoiding what one truly cares about.
08:49 Setting behavioral goals and acknowledging the discomfort involved are essential steps in overcoming barriers; dismissing barriers leads to a crude implementation of therapeutic techniques.
I would ask 'and are you willing to feel uncomfortable if it's the service of something you value such as getting close to your boyfriend?'