What is Strategic Psychotherapy?

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 The fundamental principle of Strategic Psychotherapy is that the person is not the problem - the problem is the problem.

Every choice we make is preceded by a thought process, often a thought process that has become automatic. The problems we are presented with are enabled by these automatic or unconscious thought processes.

A person with a problem issue is not a “bad”or weak” person - they just don’t have a stronger thought process that beats the automatic response to the punch.

For example, you know that smoking is unhealthy, but you just don’t have a stronger response in situations where you normally smoke or you know that losing your cool isn’t helpful, but there is not a more useful automatic response to intercept frustration when your patience gets tested.

The Strategic Psychotherapist is skilled at pinpointing the disempowering automated thought process and working with you to alter the unconscious process before it activates.

Strategic Psychotherapy is useful for dealing with Self Esteem, OCD, Depression, Anger or Anxiety, Procrastination & Unwanted Habits because they are automatic responses.

Author

Andrea Loughran - Hypnotherapist

The Beautiful Mind Hypnotherapy