Generating Self-Compassion in Emotion-Focused Therapy

Name: Generating Self-Compassion in Emotion-Focused Therapy
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ISBN: 978-1-4338-3131-7

With Ladislav Timulak, PhD

ISBN: 978-1-4338-3131-7

October 2019

Item # 4310013

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Alexander Street Press

Part of the Series II: Specific Treatments for Specific Populations

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Description

Emotional pain experienced by a client, whether it is loneliness, sadness, shame and fear, for example, are responses to an injury that prevents or violates the fulfillment of the basic human need to be loved, feel safe, and be acknowledged.

Dr. Ladisav Timulak presents his therapeutic approach as a treatment designed to emphasize the importance of attending to distress rather than avoiding or suppressing it. The approach focuses on helping the client to stay with, rather than avoid, their painful emotional experiences. Identifying the triggers of difficult emotional experiences, identifying the unmet or violated needs that are connected to such emotional experiences, and responding to such underlying needs, are equally emphasized throughout the therapy in order to transform the pain.

In this video program, Dr. Timulak guides his client towards self-compassion, while encouraging the development of healthy grieving, empowerment and inner resilience.

Approach

Emotion-focused therapy is a research-informed psychological therapy that has been studied in the context of depression, generalized and social anxiety, complex trauma and couple distress.

Contributor bios

Ladislav Timulak, PhD, is associate professor at Trinity College Dublin, where he is course director of the doctorate in counselling psychology.

Suggested resources

Timulak, L. (2014). Witnessing client's emotional change in psychotherapy: An emotion-focused therapists experience of providing therapy. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 70, 741–752. doi: 10.1002/jclp.22109
Timulak, L. (2015). Transforming emotional pain in psychotherapy: An emotion-focused approach. New York: Routledge.
Timulak, L., & McElvaney, J. (2017). Transforming generalized anxiety: An emotion-focused approach. New York: Routledge.
Timulak, L., & Pascual-Leone, A. (2015). New developments for case conceptualization in emotion‐focused therapy. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 22, 619–636. doi: 10.1002/cpp.1922