[{"content":"Your initial consultation by phone is available at no charge to you. During your initial consultation, you will be asked a series of questions designed to establish the nature of your problem(s). All information is held in the strictest confidentiality.","permalink":"/psychotherapy-services/initial-consultation/","section":"Personal Psychotherapy Services","summary":"Via phone (no charge) — includes motivational assessment.","title":"Initial Consultation"},{"content":"Your initial consultation with Terry will be at no cost. During this process you will be asked to give a detailed overview of your issue/problem and be asked inquiring questions. Confidentiality and anonymity are cornerstones of Terry’s practice, and any information is kept completely confidential. Many executive/business coaching approaches focus on open ended questions about goals and objectives. These are often easy for the client to discuss because they are looking at the ideal or are vicariously desiring to live above their present capabilities. My approach can include goal setting, however, looking at the base psychological health of the individual in my opinion is a logical starting point. Without exploring precisely the basic foundation of the individual, many strategies purported by present day coaching methods are not effective, especially in the long term. To be more precise, my approach is to assess the individual’s capacity to tolerate their most basic instinctual emotions. This will give us a more precise plan and platform from which to proceed. Executives and Managers are often unconscious of their impact. For example if they are “rigid”, have poor interpersonal skills/relationships, or are unable to work in a team they will often defer to the easiest method of managing, which is to manage from a “position of power”. This may be the only way they can see the problem(s).","permalink":"/success-coaching/initial-consultation/","section":"Success Business Coaching","summary":"Free of charge — includes motivational assessment.","title":"Initial Consultation"},{"content":"Many people advocating coaching as a special tool to improve one’s mental state or potential to be more successful do not have the meta psychological foundation/understanding to see the big picture clearly. Consequently, they lack the precision to deal with core psychological issues that are the driving force(s) in people’s lives. Their unhealthy psychological processes, that may be completely unconscious to them, are the driving force to mediocrity or unhealthy outcomes. My approach to coaching is based on well researched evidence based psychological processes that have been shown to have high levels of reliability and sustainability and come from a body of Evidence Based OUTCOME RESEARCH as opposed to a theoretical probability. Your work with me will be held in the highest confidentiality and your anonymity will always be well preserved.","permalink":"/success-coaching/core-work/","section":"Success Business Coaching","summary":"What it takes.","title":"Core Work"},{"content":"Your first session, which we call a trial therapy, will be two to three (2–3) hours in length. This duration is needed to establish if you are suited for Attachment Based/Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy or perhaps a different modality (approach) would work better. Once this is established then the appointments will be one and one half (1.5) hours in length.","permalink":"/psychotherapy-services/trial-therapy/","section":"Personal Psychotherapy Services","summary":"To determine individual dynamics (psycho-dynamics).","title":"Trial Therapy"},{"content":"Block coaching is my idea of identifying and working with individuals in a scheduled intense period of time. The client would be scheduled for two (2) hour sessions every day (this can be flexible) for 10 days (which could include weekends as an option). This process gives much quicker results and accelerates the character change and/or relief from emotional distress that sets the stage for the client to go on to making more informed decisions. The client must be motivated and dedicated to this process. Most coaching has a very cognitive “do as I say” approach. This may work with a percentage of the population but for the most part is a feel good, no end in sight process. These approaches are very expensive in the long run and often require a dependency on the coach like a child to parent. My approach is to create an understanding of the person’s defensive structures by being more direct and at the same time caring. This approach can rapidly bring about character change and/or relief from crippling anxiety and emotional distress, which rapidly changes the person’s confidence in themselves and gives insight for more informed decision making for the present and future. Other benefits of working with Terry during Block Coaching are to have his expertise on addiction issues, marital/relationship issues and the expertise of a seasoned mental health professional available should he be needed. Terry is a trained marital/relationship therapist and also a certified substance misuse/addiction specialist and a trained interventionist. He is also very capable of working with clientèle that have anger regulation issues or spousal assault/abuse issues or have had feedback in their business or workplace that she/he impacts the workplace or business in a threatening way. Terry’s coaching technique is applicable for women and men. He is available to travel to the client’s place of business anywhere.","permalink":"/success-coaching/block-coaching/","section":"Success Business Coaching","summary":"As an option to core work.","title":"Block Coaching"},{"content":"Attachment Based/Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (AB/IS-TDP) is a form of brief psychotherapy developed by Dr. Habib Davanloo of McGill University and improved upon by Dr. Robert Neborsky and Dr. Josette ten Have-de Labije. This accelerated model of psychotherapy is designed specifically for the therapist to collaboratively, with the patient, work rapidly to get to the core of the patient’s problems and dissolve the problem as opposed to resolving them. Most therapy is designed to give resolution or break up the problem. Problem is, the parts of the problem often find their way back to only create the problem in the same format or disguise the problem in a different format. With AB/IS-TDP the problem is dissolutioned. In the dissolutionment of a problem you dissolve the problem so that it does not continue to come back. Permanent results (character change) are attained. AB/IS-TDP was developed to overcome obstacles that most traditional psychotherapies cannot accomplish rapidly or at all. Recent research has supported the efficacy of this approach. My approach combines my understanding of early life trauma and psychological damage, attachment theory (how we create relationships with ourselves and others), based on solid outcome based research as opposed to theory or opinion based research. This form of psychotherapy is most suitable for people who have high motivation to change for the better, such as people who are suffering from self-defeating behaviour/thinking, anxiety, depression, compulsive behaviour, addiction, eating disorders and undiagnosed body pain. This form of psychotherapy is a very active one and I take a very involved position with my patients in the session. This is unlike some forms of psychotherapy or counselling where the therapist takes a very passive (just listening) position. People that come to work with me who have courage and a strong will to want to get better will shorten the duration of their suffering and the duration of the therapy. This can be a very substantial cost saving along with a healthy outcome. To learn more about AB/IS-TDP consider these resources: www.istdp.ca/media.htm#publication Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (Wikipedia) Southern California Society for ISTDP","permalink":"/psychotherapy-services/core-therapy/","section":"Personal Psychotherapy Services","summary":"Via Attachment Based/Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (AB/IS-TDP).","title":"Core Therapy"},{"content":"The Attachment Based/Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (AB/IS-TDP) has a very intensive nature. Traditionally the model for psychotherapy is 50 minute sessions once a week. While this may be a tradition in psychotherapy and allow for therapists to see more patients in a day, my experience is to have seen patients who have been in therapy indefinitely… which in my opinion is not the optimal approach for all patients. They are often very surprised they are experiencing better mental and physical health in a short period of time as a result of our work together. My work has been proven to be more effective and give quicker and more lasting results using 90 minute and 120 minute sessions. If you do not live in the Vancouver area, AB/IS-TDP can be very effective in a block format. In this case we would discuss arranging for a block of therapy that would occur during a series of visits to Vancouver. For example, the first sessions might consist of 2 or 3 days of 120 minute sessions on each day. After that contact we would decide when another block therapy session could occur in the near future. These arrangements would be based on the progress and outcome of the initial trial therapy sessions. To learn more about AB/IS-TDP consider these resources: www.istdp.ca/media.htm#publication Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (Wikipedia) Southern California Society for ISTDP","permalink":"/psychotherapy-services/block-therapy/","section":"Personal Psychotherapy Services","summary":"As an option to core work.","title":"Block Therapy"},{"content":"My approach to coaching is to be available to the client 24/7. This guarantee will hopefully give the comfort of knowing that you can communicate with me any time of the day or night, weekends, holidays. Since we have access from anywhere in the world in a second it is my intention to give that security to the client as they build their own character strength. When we collaboratively develop a coaching plan, goal setting will be explored and I will vigilantly follow through to check on your progress or needs.","permalink":"/success-coaching/long-term-follow-up/","section":"Success Business Coaching","summary":"Provides access to Terry 24/7.","title":"Long Term Follow-up"},{"content":"My experience working with women and men around their ability to regulate themselves with anger/rage has been very successful. The development of this material was in conjunction with a female partner who was able to give a more thorough perspective from a female reality. My approach to this topic of Anger/Rage Regulation is to have the candidate in the workshop get to know and understand this core emotion. But further than just understanding, the material will take the candidate to a place of not just having interpersonal dynamic awareness, but more importantly to a place of experiencing dynamic intra-personal understanding. This workshop gives the candidate the opportunity to participate anonymously in the workshop setting and look at the parts of their core emotions which they may be completely unconscious about. This workshop has been proven effective with men and women for many years and has been continuously improved upon. Some comments from participants are: “Terry uses real life experience. No B.S. I felt like I was not the only one with anger issues.” “Terry was very supportive, understanding and willing to help day or night. Very thankful.” “Receptive and made me feel at ease with difficult situation.” “This course was in layman’s terms which I could understand and then apply.” “I’m becoming part of the solution and less of the problem.”","permalink":"/success-coaching/anger-regulation-workshops/","section":"Success Business Coaching","summary":"To promote and create safe working environments for businesses.","title":"Anger Regulation Workshops"},{"content":"One of the processes I offer my patients is for me to have permission to follow-up once the therapy has been concluded. This would include a telephone call, email, or video conference (Google Meet) at two months, six months and one year. You the patient would sign a waiver for this service and strict confidentiality procedures would be followed. Psychodynamic therapy (AB/IS-TDP) is showing in recent research that patients continue to improve in short term and long term follow-up. Follow-up contacts are often useful to bring reminders to the patient if they have questions or are experiencing new phenomena that they just remembered because of the follow-up contact.","permalink":"/psychotherapy-services/long-term-follow-up/","section":"Personal Psychotherapy Services","summary":"Provides access to Terry 24/7.","title":"Long Term Follow-up"},{"content":"People will often be suffering from an addiction or destructive behaviour and it will feel helpless and hopeless. You feel like you have tried everything in the universe to get these people to change and nothing is working. You’ve tried talking to them, you’ve tried pleading with them to get help, you have found hidden substances that they use, you have had other people talk to them but nothing seems to change or it only changes for a brief time. One of the most powerful tools that can be used with individuals suffering from poor impulse control or addiction is to intervene in a direct manner. This process of intervention has been shown to have success 80% of the time when done by a trained professional. You may have watched this process on TV and thought we can do this on our own. My experience is that this is rarely successful and can be somewhat dangerous if the person is prone to violent outbreaks. I have been trained in Intervention and have carried out well over a hundred Interventions in my professional career. One of the common questions is how successful are you when you do this? My experience has been that close to the predicted 80% of the time there is success. However, when an intervention is not successful the people that have been involved have become healthier, more educated about addiction and are often relieved from the dependency of taking care of this individual sometimes physically, financially and emotionally. That is not to say that they do not love the person or cherish their friendship any more but as a result of being involved in the intervention are living a much healthier life themselves.","permalink":"/psychotherapy-services/interventions/","section":"Personal Psychotherapy Services","summary":"Interventions for addiction recovery therapy.","title":"Interventions"},{"content":"The term Bullying is quickly becoming a highly focused issue in our society, whether on the school yard, within the family system, or within the work environment. There is a lot of work being done to explain the Bullying phenomena which may be useful to give understanding. Once again we will see a cottage industry appear with consultants explaining this cognitively. What we need is not only interpersonal understanding but also intra-personal understanding of the self. My approach is not only to give meaning cognitively to Bullying, but to be able to have candidates in my Bullying Workshop have a look at themselves from parts of their personality and character that may be quite unconscious to them. This work can be done in a group setting with each individual doing their own work without having to share or disclose in front of peers, managers or subordinates. The safety of this workshop is paramount and will be highly regulated to ensure the candidates’ anonymity and emotional safety. My success in this work is to give the individual a close look and to experience parts of themselves that they may have denied or have lost through the trauma of life.","permalink":"/success-coaching/workshops-on-bullying/","section":"Success Business Coaching","summary":"Bullying in the workplace.","title":"Workshops on Bullying"},{"content":"One of my passions in life is to work with the population of recovering alcoholics/addicts. Being a recovering person myself with 38 years sobriety, I have come to see more clearly through my practice and studies, a need for recovering people to explore more precisely the dynamics in their psyche. Often recovering people are stuck in lifestyles that do not give them the psychological happiness they had expected from achieving sobriety/staying clean. I have been able to use the Attachment Based/Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (AB/IS-TDP) approach with great success. Recovering patients have often commented that they felt they had wasted a lot of their lives looking for happiness by staying dutifully in some recovery programs. My experience is that once an individual has attained a level of sobriety or being clean, that they do very well with the AB/IS-TDP approach to psychotherapy. Recent outcome research is showing that IS-TDP outperforms a lot of the more popular therapies. This means low lapse and relapse issues and permanent character change.","permalink":"/psychotherapy-services/recovering-addicts/","section":"Personal Psychotherapy Services","summary":"Deeper psychotherapy for people in recovery.","title":"Recovering Addicts"},{"content":"In the new millennium, gender has become a more obvious issue: women and men competing for position and, for women, the given right to have equal opportunities. Another one of my passions is to have studied and looked at the social/psychological factors and variables to do with gender difference. In my practice and development of any workshop I have always looked at the gender component as a strong variable in the dynamics I am presenting. For example: to be able to explain and then have individuals experience what it may be like to be in the other gender’s skin is a strong suit in my workshops. On an individual basis, the foundation for any consultation or coaching contract is to ensure that there is a strong understanding about what gender you are, the implications of socialization, early attachment issues and character development. It is from this basis that a more secure personality can be developed to handle the Serengeti of the business world. A director of Business Research in a large Fortune 500 company said: “Half the skills you need are technical. But the other half are in the emotional domain. And it’s amazing how it’s the latter that distinguishes the top performers.” My understanding of both genders has given me much success in assisting individuals to a higher level of understanding and also the opportunity to look more precisely at their own psyche.","permalink":"/success-coaching/women-and-men-entrepreneurs/","section":"Success Business Coaching","summary":"Client base: coaching that takes gender dynamics seriously.","title":"Women and Men Entrepreneurs"},{"content":"My training in Marital Relationship work is certification as an Advanced Imago Marital Relationship Therapist. The term Imago is a Latin word that means “Image”. The principal architect of this theory is Harville Hendrix, who if you Google will give more of a history of his theory. Basically, Hendrix’s theory suggests that we were born in relationship, we were neglected to some degree or mistreated in relationship and we spend our lives trying to get or find someone to be with who will give to us unconditionally what we deserved and or give us the safety of behaviour that will dissolve fears we have about being relational. I have found some of the processes in Imago methodology to be quite useful with couples who are relatively healthy. These couples are usually experiencing difficulty or fear of communicating their needs and wants in a relationship. These couples usually respond and do quite well in some of the Imago processes. However, a majority of couples who are experiencing problems/power struggles in their marriage/relationship have deep seated defence structures that they learned very early in their lives to survive with. These defence mechanisms are often accompanied with high levels of anxiety and or depression and often create acting out behaviour that can be physically assaultive or verbally assaultive or both. In my experience this is where the rubber hits the road and most Marital Therapies fail or are not effective enough in their approach. My experience working with couples has led me to develop a more successful approach to couples work than is being sold on the Marital/Relationship market today. First of all, recent research on and about marital therapists suggests that 79% of therapists state they do marital/relationship therapy/counselling. The study found that 69% of the 79% who said they did Marital Therapy had NO training in Marital/Relationship Therapy. How I work with couples How I work with couples and or individuals who are looking to be more relational is to see the couple together for the first session or two. This session(s) will give us a precise psycho diagnosis as to what the emotional health of each individual is and what procedure would be the most effective, quickest, long lasting and cost saving. Good, focused, precise Attachment Based/Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy will then be offered to each individual along with strategic couples sessions to integrate the individual work that is being done. It is my experience and my intention to accelerate the process with precision and care to a successful outcome. In my opinion and experience this is a much quicker and cost saving approach.","permalink":"/psychotherapy-services/marital-relationship-therapy/","section":"Personal Psychotherapy Services","summary":"Advanced Imago Marital/Relationship Therapy combined with AB/IS-TDP.","title":"Marital \u0026 Relationship Therapy"},{"content":"I have been trained in and presented many marital/relationship workshops locally and internationally. This work at this time is available on request. If you are interested as a group of people or couples (heterosexual, gay/lesbian), please inquire with me.","permalink":"/psychotherapy-services/marital-relationship-workshops/","section":"Personal Psychotherapy Services","summary":"Workshops for groups and couples, available on request.","title":"Marital \u0026 Relationship Workshops"},{"content":"My experience working with women and men around their ability to regulate themselves with anger/rage has been very successful. The development of this material was in conjunction with a female partner who was able to give a more thorough perspective from a female reality. My approach to this topic of Anger/Rage Regulation is to have the candidate in the workshop get to know and understand this core emotion. But further than just understanding, the material will take the candidate to a place of not just having interpersonal dynamic awareness, but more importantly to a place of experiencing dynamic intra-personal understanding. This workshop gives the candidate the opportunity to participate anonymously in the workshop setting and look at the parts of their core emotions which they may be completely unconscious about. This workshop has been proven effective with men and women for many years and has been continuously improved upon. Some comments from participants are: “Terry uses real life experience. No B.S. I felt like I was not the only one with anger issues.” “Terry was very supportive, understanding and willing to help day or night. Very thankful.” “Receptive and made me feel at ease with difficult situation.” “This course was in layman’s terms which I could understand and then apply.” “I’m becoming part of the solution and less of the problem.”","permalink":"/psychotherapy-services/anger-regulation/","section":"Personal Psychotherapy Services","summary":"Understand and regulate anger/rage as a core emotion.","title":"Anger Regulation Workshop"},{"content":"My intentions for writing this article are to expose and inform the general community and the professional therapy community to a very effective form of psychotherapy. In Attachment Based/Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (AB/IS-TDP) we assess the patient’s response moment by moment to develop a clear understanding of the patient’s strengths and weaknesses. This process of assessment is called psycho diagnosis. Diagnosis as we usually refer to it is a phenomenological diagnosis, the therapist finds a number of symptoms and the patient is given a diagnosis. The problem with this process is that although this diagnosis tells us what they have; it does not tell us what causes the problem(s). “Traditionally our diagnostic system does not tell us how to treat the patient. In AB/IS-TDP we diagnose quite differently. We find out what problem the patient has then we explore the problem to find out what conflicts generate those symptoms (Jon Frederickson).” Most psychotherapy has been designed and focuses on the reduction of symptoms such as depression or anxiety. (AB/IS-TDP) has been shown to give deeper insights and more permanent relief (character change) from neurosis and somatic discomfort and pain. Based on Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis and his discovery of the dynamic unconscious, AB/IS-TDP, under the umbrella of Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (EDP), has proven to be more efficient, cover a broader range of problems and give more permanent character change in a shorter period of time. There have been many attempts to create short term results in therapy. Psychoanalysis itself was developed by Freud as a short term therapy with most of his patients completing treatment within six months. Freud believed that the therapist needed to engage with the patient’s defences and was, initially quite successful in this approach. Unfortunately he became despondent with his theory, partly because of his isolation in his beliefs and because of difficulties in his personal life. He became disheartened and took a more passive position with his therapeutic approach which became known as psychoanalysis. Similarly other therapies take this passive position and without well designed research methodology make claims that patients experience lasting change. AB/IS-TDP is a form of the original Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (IS-TDP) discovered and developed by Dr. Habib Davanloo who is still practicing in this field at Montreal General Hospital. Dr. Davanloo’s findings were developed and derived from videotaping over 700 patients sessions. He then reviewed and analyzed the patient’s responses on the videos over and over, observing the physical and emotional responses and developed a very successful methodology which he called Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. His precise observations of how patients respond to pressure around their defenses and how anxiety and emotions manifest themselves has led to significant breakthroughs in understanding human trauma and its effects on the human psyche. Anxiety and defensive behaviour can be undetected by the individual and the outcome can be negative or ruined relationships, physical symptoms and a long list of psychiatric problems. Methodology A large percentage of patients will present to the therapist with anxiety. A smaller percentage will present with a range of defenses. There is also the likelihood that there will be a combination of the two. The most productive assessment would be to determine if the patient is highly defended or do they have anxiety that rises and falls or rises and remains elevated for a long duration. As these phenomena are presented the therapist needs to attend precisely to either defenses and or anxiety moment to moment. To track defenses accurately the therapist needs to identify and be aware of the types of defenses. Defenses are categorized as follows: Repressive Defenses Rationalization (to make excuses) Minimization (to not take seriously) Intellectualization (to block feeling with reasoning) Displacement (to direct feared feelings on to unthreatening object) Reaction Formation (to feel/behave in direct opposition to your truth) Regressive Defenses Projection (to transfer one’s own feelings to the outside world) Denial (to reject, avoid, an unpleasant truth) Acting Out (to perform rather than bear experiencing of) Dissociation (to disrupt integrated functioning) Somatization (to turn mental pain into physical pain) Tactical Defenses (Verbal) Sarcasm Argumentativeness Rumination (worrying/brooding) Vagueness/Evasiveness Deflection (changing the subject) Diversification (jumping from one topic to another) Obsessional indecisiveness Being contradictory Helplessness Passive compliance Talking over your feelings (galloping) Tactical Defenses (Non-Verbal) Avoiding Eye contact Defensive body language (crossed arms and legs…) Smiling or laughing over feelings Weepiness Temper tantrums (having a tantrum rather than setting a healthy boundary) When these defenses are present they are usually unconscious to the patient or syntonic. If the patient stays in the moment with these defenses it is the job of the therapist to determine the degree of syntonicity (degrees of unconsciousness) and change them to a degree of dystonicity (degree of consciousness). The patients’ recognition of their defenses and their awareness of the cause will make them consciously aware of these phenomena and assists them in defeating their compulsion to use them. By accomplishing this task the anxiety will be reduced and the rise of complex feelings/emotions will occur. As the defenses are made dystonic the patients Ego will become more and more observing and attentive. The therapist will know this is happening when the patient starts to catch themselves in the session attempting to use their old defense system and changes their attention to defeating the defence. They may also return to the next session reporting that they are more aware and caught themselves when they had the urge to use the defense mechanism in the old harmful manner. This conscious awareness allows the patient to now experience the emotion and not have fear of it. This is what Dr.Davanloo calls an “Unconscious Therapeutic Alliance”. This allows for the patient to now better regulate themselves and become more efficient in navigating themselves emotionally in their day to day lives. It reduces anxiety and allows them to be more relational. A fully experienced emotion/feeling has three parts: Cognitive: What is the feeling/emotion? Be able to name it accurately (anger, love, and anxiety/fear)…… Physiological Response: How do you experience this feeling in your body? What sensations do you notice? (Warm Chest, tight throat, urges to urinate/defecate, dry mouth, tightness in your tummy…….) Motor Impulse: What does the feeling want to do? How does this feeling/emotion want to be expressed through your body? (I want to strike out at you with my fist, I feel the urge to hug you, I feel like wanting to tear at you with my teeth)…….. — Josette ten Have-de Labije, PsyD In the IS-TDP methodology the evidence is clear from clinical trial that when the patient can experience all three emotional parts simultaneously the patient experiences satisfaction and relief from previous pathological phenomenon, or destructive behaviour. Research is showing that they gain lasting change to their character. Recent research from New York University shows that by using experiential psychotherapy and precise intervention, the fear response can be substantially reduced. However, this only occurs when the patient/client has experienced the emotion and then a reconsolidation of awareness and connection to the emotion is worked through. In the AB/ISTDP model, developed by Dr. Robert Neborsky, MD, the therapist continues to increase the pressure on the patient’s defense system creating more Ego Adaptive Capacity or resiliency which in turn reduces less fear of their core emotions:[ guilt, grief, rage and pain,] until there is a breakthrough. The breakthrough will allow the patient to be aware of the emotion, to access their core neurotic structure and experience the emotion cognitively, and somatic matorically (physically in the body). This has been referred to as “dreaming while wide awake”. Deep seated grief may now emerge from the patient’s unconscious. Along with grief, often murderous rage which the patient has always unconsciously been afraid of or felt guilty for experiencing appears from the patients unconscious. This core unlocking when experienced conjointly with emotional, cognitive and somatic motoric will give the patient satisfaction and now ongoing relief from fearing their emotions. Dr. Neborsky, who trained under Dr. Davanloo, sees Davanloo’s theory of psychopathology as a subset of attachment trauma. He references this in the naming of his technique Attachment Based/ Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. He sees trauma on a continuum and his use of Davanloo’s methodology and the focus of Dr. Mary Ainsworth’s insecure attachment technique has led to a huge expansion of treating a much broader spectrum of patients with symptom reduction, character change, relationship enhancement, and access to creativity from the unconscious. There is not enough room in this article to elaborate how Dr. Neborsky has brought the inclusion of Attachment Theory into the IS-TDP methodology. Efficacy This method of psychotherapy is at this time of writing being used in very effective ways to reduce medical expenses. Dr. Allan Abbass et al, has shown scientifically that by treating patients with medically unexplained symptoms by using IS-TDP produced a reduction of sixty nine (69) per cent visits in an emergency department at the Queen Elizabeth ll Health Sciences Centre Emergency Department in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada . The cost reduction was $910 per patient. IS-TDP interventions averaged 3.8 sessions (Journal of The Academy of Medical Psychology). Dr. Abbass in another study has shown scientifically that seven sessions of IS-TDP conducted on 890 patients showed an 80% drop in Psychiatric bed use by this population. AB/IS-TDP demonstrates through the use of videotaping sessions and often transcribing the content word for word moment to moment the scientific outcome not speculated outcome. The actual transformation of the patient from suffering to character change and not just temporary relief is witnessed in and well documented. . Dr. David Malan, who was one of the pioneers of researching the effects of psychoanalysis at the Tavistock Hospital in England, through scientific research showed the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of psychoanalysis says about IS-TDP “In 1980, I referred to Dr. Davanloo’s work as the most important development in psychotherapy since the discovery of the unconscious and he predicted that within 10 years the status of dynamic psychotherapy would change dramatically. Dr. Malan says he stands by the first statement about Dr. Davanloos work but at the time of this statement (1996) the hope in the second part of his prediction he felt had not happened. Dr. Malan strongly feels that the lack of proper training and the unwillingness of practitioners to do the necessary training is a major contributor to the lack of effectiveness of a lot of today’s psychotherapy. It has been my experience to be witness to the degree of difficulty in learning and applying this form of therapy. From well-trained Medical Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Clinical Social Workers, and Clinical Counsellors there is no easy road to the understanding and successful application of AB/IS-TDP without taking the proper training. Hopefully by arousing the reader’s curiosity and not taking a defensive position they will take the time to investigate the AB/IS-TDP methodology and evidence based research. Terry maintains a private practice in Vancouver, and specializes in AB/ISTDP incorporating this methodology into his work in Addiction, Couples Therapy and developing programs for Men and Women in assaultive/violent behavior. Terry also has a specialty in Executive Coaching and Life Coaching and will develop programs for workplaces on Emotional Intelligence and Conflict Dissolution not Resolution. Bibliography Frederickson, Jon, LCSW, ISTDP Institute, Washington, D.C. Coughlin Della Selva, Patricia (1996) Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. John Wiley \u0026 Sons Davanloo, Habib (1990) Unlocking The Unconscious. John Wiley \u0026 Sons Davanloo, Habib (2000) Unlocking The Unconscious. John Wiley \u0026 Sons Malan, David, \u0026 Coughlin Della Selva, Patricia (2006) Lives Transformed: A Revolutionary Method of Dynamic Psychotherapy. H. Karnac (Books) Ltd.","permalink":"/blog/attachment-based-intensive-short-term-dynamic-psychotherapy/","section":"Blog Articles","summary":"An introduction to AB/IS-TDP for the general community and the professional therapy community: its history, methodology, the defenses it tracks, and the research on its efficacy.","title":"Attachment Based/Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy"},{"content":"In my practice I have been trained in a form of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy called Attachment Based/Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (AB/IS-TDP). From all the recent outcome research, AB/IS-TDP is the only Psychotherapy that can show long lasting change to character as opposed to giving just SYMPTOM relief for a period of time. AB/IS-TDP has also been shown through outcome research, to be able to deal with difficult mental and somatic (Body Pain) more effectively and in a much shorter period of time. People with high anxiety and high resistance have been given relief from their suffering in a much shorter period of time compared to other Psychotherapies. Conditions that are often difficult to work with such as eating disorders, addictions, anxiety disorders, mood disorders have been shown to change/recover quicker and remain changed permanently. One of the most important components of AB/IS-TDP is the psychodiagnostic evaluation of the person. This gives the therapist and the person the ability to set up a plan for recovery or permanent relief. This refers to assessing the formats of unconscious anxiety, the specific nature of major unconscious resistances and the degree of resistance. Thus, the person and the therapist have an accurate plan for accomplishing a positive permanent change. All this is accomplished in the first session with the therapist. All information is kept confidential and no documentation is kept unless the person requires kept notes. Sessions will be videotaped at the request of the therapist, but, refusal by the person having therapy is always honoured. Video taping is very useful for the therapist to review and then be able to pick up on issues that may have been missed or can be improved upon.","permalink":"/blog/psychodynamic-psychotherapy/","section":"Blog Articles","summary":"In my practice I have been trained in a form of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy called Attachment Based/Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (AB/IS-TDP). From all the recent outcome research, AB/IS-TDP is the only Psychotherapy that can show long lasting change to character as opposed to giving just SYMPTOM relief for a period of time. AB/IS-TDP has also been shown through outcome research, to be able to deal with difficult mental and somatic (Body Pain) more effectively and in a much shorter period of time. People with high anxiety and high resistance have been given relief from their suffering in a much shorter period of time compared to other Psychotherapies. Conditions that are often difficult to work with such as eating disorders, addictions, anxiety disorders, mood disorders have been shown to change/recover quicker and remain changed permanently.\n","title":"Psychodynamic Psychotherapy"},{"content":"Terry Brennen is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Registration #403, and a trained Psychotherapist with a diverse background. He completed his Masters Degree in Counselling Psychology and has continued his studies via a number of post graduate trainings specifically in Attachment Based/Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (AB/IS-TDP). Terry is qualified to supervise practitioners who are wanting to or are studying in an IS-TDP core group, or practitioners who may want to enhance their therapy skills. Terry has extensive training in Marital/Relationship therapy and is a certified Advanced Imago Marital/Relationship Therapist and certified Imago workshop presenter for couples and single individuals. Terry has also extensive training in Substance Misuse/Addiction and is a certified Substance Abuse/Addiction Counsellor/Therapist and is a trained Substance Misuse/Addiction Interventionist. Terry has been instrumental in the design and implementation of Spousal Assault Programs for both men and women and has more than 25 years experience working with multicultural populations, diverse relationships/gender populations, gay/lesbian, Life Style and the Kink community. Terry worked in and developed Employee Assistance Programs with Telus and, more recently, for the City of Vancouver (VCEAP), and has been trained as a Critical Incident Stress Debriefing therapist. He has also designed courses for many other organizations, including Ishtar Transition Society, British Columbia Ministry of the Attorney General, City of Vancouver Employee Assistance Program. Testimonials and Endorsements Terry Brennen has studied AB/IS-TDP through the Southern California Society for IS-TDP. The people of Vancouver, BC are indeed lucky to have Terry representing IS-TDP in the Northwest. He completed our four year training program and is highly skilled and very talented in helping patients access their unconscious trauma and rapidly as well as thoroughly repair early attachment trauma. Terry is also an IEDTA eligible supervisor for professionals who may decide to use him as a supervisor. The technique of IS-TDP is a difficult technique to master: Terry has shown his mettle and has earned my strongest professional endorsement. — Robert J. Neborsky, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCSD and UCLA (Hon) Schools of Medicine, President Southern CA Society for IS-TDP, Distinguished Life Fellow American Psychiatric Association After having spent countless years in therapy with no success, I finally found Terry Brennen who practices AB/IS-TDP. I had ten sessions with him and feel a clear shift has happened in my life. He helped me realize how my emotional overwhelmness and recurring feelings of helplessness and despair were a defense; they were my parent’s negative voice talking and I was seeing others and myself through their eyes. He helped me experience that this is not me, and that I CAN be myself, regardless of what I went through as a child. I feel lighter now and more assertive in my relationship and with my career choices. If you have been struggling with low self-esteem, emotional overwhelmness, rage/anger or any other issue nobody could help you with, then I strongly suggest you work with Terry Brennen. He is very skilled at this form of therapy, and he is genuinely loving and supportive, while at the same time able to hold his stand when there is resistance. — M.W., Vancouver, BC","permalink":"/about/","section":"","summary":"\nTerry Brennen is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Registration #403, and a trained Psychotherapist with a diverse background. He completed his Masters Degree in Counselling Psychology and has continued his studies via a number of post graduate trainings specifically in Attachment Based/Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (AB/IS-TDP).\nTerry is qualified to supervise practitioners who are wanting to or are studying in an IS-TDP core group, or practitioners who may want to enhance their therapy skills. Terry has extensive training in Marital/Relationship therapy and is a certified Advanced Imago Marital/Relationship Therapist and certified Imago workshop presenter for couples and single individuals.\n","title":"About Terry"},{"content":"Four ways to contact us Book online calendly.com/terrybrennenassociates Request Appointment Phone \u0026 WhatsApp 604-789-2079 Call WhatsApp Email terrybrennenassociates@gmail.com Send Email We offer in-person sessions, as well as remote sessions by phone, Google Meet, WhatsApp and FaceTime. Our goal is to work collaboratively and precisely with our clients to discover what their problem(s) are and dissolve these problem(s) — not just resolve them — as quickly as possible.","permalink":"/contact/","section":"","summary":"Four ways to contact us Book online calendly.com/terrybrennenassociates Request Appointment Phone \u0026 WhatsApp 604-789-2079 Call WhatsApp Email terrybrennenassociates@gmail.com Send Email We offer in-person sessions, as well as remote sessions by phone, Google Meet, WhatsApp and FaceTime.\n","title":"Contact"}]