Ask the client to leave the image and bring their attention back to their physical body.Once you and your client have formed a strong picture of what their path (and life journey) looks like, start bringing the activity to a close.How long have you been in this place? How do you feel about being here? How does the landscape look from within? Describe it for me. Next, help the client engage more fully with their metaphorical landscape.īe present in the landscape rather than seeing it only as a picture.Seek more clarification if their answer is too limited.Ask them to consider the following question (modify as required): How would you describe where you are in your journey through life?.Encourage the client to picture themselves on a path that represents where they are in their life.Ask the client to position themselves comfortably and close their eyes, taking a few slow, deep breaths to help them relax.Before you begin, introduce the image of a path as a metaphor for where clients see themselves on their journey through life.The following steps show how we can introduce the metaphor in therapy to explore where clients are in their lives and the obstacles they face (Thomas, 2016): The image is familiar in our day-to-day conversation, such as “she is back on track” or “he lost his way.” Performing visualization in therapyįor example, psychotherapist and academic Valerie Thomas (2016) uses the framing image of a path as a simple metaphor for life’s journey and living a purposeful life. 82).Įach image provides a focus and vehicle for the therapeutic dialogue and a bridge between rational and imaginational thinking. While visualization has many uses, it is typically used in therapy to facilitate treatment processes and represent aspects of the self (Thomas, 2016).įraming images provide conceptual metaphors, offering “deep level schemas or ‘experiential gestalts’ that cognitively restructure the individual’s perception of self and self in relation to the environment” (Thomas, 2016, p. And yet, psychological treatments, such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), increasingly use mental imagery as a practical counseling approach for modifying and restructuring dysfunctional schemas (Thomas, 2016). Visualization Resources From ĭespite its long history, visualization is relatively under-represented in academic research.
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