brainworking recursive therapy

Shanna is a registered member of The Terence Watts BWRT Institute. After several years of working with trauma associated with the child welfare system, Shanna was taking a break from "trauma" during therapy, which isn't realistic. She felt that common models used by other providers didn't match her therapeutic perspective and style. 

While assisting a friend find a therapist that meets their needs and expectations, Shanna came across a long list of therapy interventions. Thanks to advances in medical technology and research, the range of the field of neuroscience is growing rapidly. Shanna ran across the concept of BWRT and was unfamiliar with the model. Upon gathering more information, it felt like a great fit for a deep need to address trauma, anxiety and other personal issues without years of therapy or being retraumatized by the process. 

Despite interest, Shanna didn't trust the claims originally made about the therapy. Shanna started Level 1 training and was only willing to pay session-by-session, although she quickly realized how powerful this process can be for clients.  Early on, Shanna observed immediate relief from lifelong anxiety with several clients and recognized the value that it can contribute to others' lives.

Shanna is very excited to utilize BWRT with clients due to the significant improvement in symptoms and decrease in the duration of therapy. Additionally, she hopes to contribute to expanding the BWRT community as an early adopter and advocate for this new model.

BWRT® – BrainWorking Recursive Therapy® – is a new model of psychology and psychopathology that fits comfortably with current thinking on neuroscience. Developed by Terence Watts in 2011 after 35,000 hours of experience working with clients, it is determinedly solution-focused and evidence-based, thus fulfills the requirements of modern therapies. 

The original inspiration for what was to become BWRT came via an article in the New Scientist magazine in November 2011, about the experiments of Benjamin Libet in the early 1980s. The experiments appeared to prove that we don't have free will in the way we usually think of it - though we do definitely have free won't. That is, you can stop an action after it has started but you have no conscious control over the impulse arising in the first place.

The reports of Libet's experiments created howls of outrage and there were many attempts to dispute the findings. None of them were entirely successful, though, and as more advanced imaging techniques became available, it became obvious that there was, indeed, a 'cognitive gap' where the brain was starting to create a response before conscious awareness.  

The truly exciting thing about BWRT is that it works directly in that 'cognitive gap' before conscious awareness. So where more standard therapies will be seeking to access the anxiety-triggering amygdala via conscious processes, BWRT works from the other end of the scale - in the very early brain before the amygdala has even received the message!

We work with the Reptilian Complex, AKA Lizard Brain, which for 600 million years or so has been and still is the first responder in all sentient animals. It's far speedier than even the fastest thought in response to any stimulus but especially to threats against survival, be they real or simply perceived.

BWRT is now in use all over the world, by psychologists, hypnotherapists, medical practitioners, psychiatrists, counselors and more. It's in use in correction facilities, hospitals, university departments and schools, as well as by thousands of professional therapists in private clinics. 

The only problem with BWRT is that it seems just too good to be true, especially to those who have lengthy experience in the field of psychology. It is often held that thought patterns in the brain take a long time to change and even longer to change permanently. 

Well, that used to be true... but that was because all the older therapies worked directly at seeking to change the thoughts at the 'thinking end'. It's a bit like trying to turn off the water supply to a hose by adjusting the nozzle. You might be able to stop the flow but the presure builds up and it's only a matter of time before the inevitable happens.

But BWRT turns off the tap. 

This page was created with info from The Terence Watts BWRT Institute. Checkout the original page here: https://www.bwrt.org/folders/What-is

‘BWRT®’ stands for ‘BrainWorking Recursive Therapy®’, a modern model of psychology and psychotherapy created by UK professional therapist, Terence Watts, MCGI. It uses a totally logical, practical and down-to-earth working method in which it’s not necessary for you to talk about anything you would rather not discuss – the practitioner only needs to know how you feel and how you would prefer to feel instead. BWRT® is unlike any other therapy you might have heard of or read about, using the latest discoveries in neuroscience coupled with your own unique brain processes to help you get better. Only Certified Practitioners have been trained to deliver BWRT® and all have to adhere to a strict ethical code. Find out more at http://www.bwrt.org