What is Roadmap Therapy



Roadmap Therapy is an integrated approach to therapy that gives clients and therapist a clear way to understand symptoms and straightforward, reasoned options of remedies. The Roadmap Therapy mantra is that therapist can give clients and map of their insides with operating instructions. This map and operation instructions gives your clients a way to figure out what is going on inside of them and why-and what to do with themselves.

The mapping tool for understanding yourself is based on the idea that you are not a single self but a symphony of selves. Inside of any one person there are different parts or selves. And using a wonderfully elegant theory of personality called Transactional Analysis-both Basic and Advanced versions; these internal parts can be clearly identified and known.

Beyond increasing awareness and insight, which is no small thing, the goal of mapping is building an inner therapist for your clients. The idea is that symptoms originate in the child aspects, critical aspects or an absent grownup aspect. The mapping part of this therapy really helps localize symptoms and determine who is driving. The building of an inner therapist then becomes the rightful partner in therapy. Using insight and the operating instructions you and client's inner therapist can have a sense of the cause and the remedies. Not that these are overnight or even brief interventions, but this approach provides understandable and focused way conducting psychotherapy.

The Operating Instructions
There 4 clearly identifiable internal things that cause symptoms for your clients.

The four areas are:
1. Feeling and Emotions and how they are experienced, processed and expressed.

2. Emotional Needs that all humans have, and how met they are, and what we do about their unmetness.

3. Internal Programming, primarily from our past, and how it influences how we feel about ourselves, life and others; how we behave in conscious and unconscious ways; how we believe about ourselves, life and others.

4. How our capacity to be powerful and active and our capacity to be receptive and emotional is configured and balanced.

Roadmap Therapy uses these understandings as a foundation and then is kitchen sink in terms of interventions. Roadmap therapy gives you a multitude of active and non active intervention strategies to help you help your clients. These interventions are drawn from Basic and Advanced Transactional Analysis, Applied Psychomotor, Self Parenting, Gestalt, Experiential and other therapies.

You will always have something to do even when it might be best to do nothing. Roadmap therapy will give you a firm grounding in theory and technique which then allows for therapeutic effectiveness and creativity.

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