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Therapy role-play · EFT · CAT
These therapies work with feelings and relationship patterns as they show up in the room, in the hour. Emotion-Focused Therapy here means Greenberg’s EFT for individuals, not Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and not Emotional Freedom Techniques. EFT listens for emotional markers and answers each with a task. Cognitive Analytic Therapy (Ryle) maps relationship patterns with the client, on paper. Good Psychiatric Management gives general clinicians a practical way to treat borderline personality disorder.
Why this therapy
Some problems show most clearly in how a person feels and relates during the session itself, including towards you. EFT works with the feeling as it arises, rather than talking about it afterwards. CAT draws the client’s relationship patterns and helps them recognise each one before trying to exit it; change attempted before recognition does not hold. GPM gives general clinicians a structured, practical way to help people with borderline personality disorder, starting with naming the diagnosis honestly and with hope.
Each protocol follows its published treatment model, and so does your feedback.
Simulated clients are a training aid. They do not replace supervised work with real clients.
Each one is reviewed in your debrief, with one concrete thing to try next time.
Notice the moment that calls for a specific task. “Part of me says I’m useless” is a marker, and it asks for more than a reflection.
Guide empty-chair and two-chair dialogues, offered with a rationale and a real choice, once the alliance can carry them.
Write and read the reformulation letter with the client (CAT): in plain words, in their language, with the survival value of each pattern made clear, so it reads as understanding rather than a case report.
Name the diagnosis and explain its course clearly (GPM): neither avoided nor read out like a charge sheet, and never as a life sentence.
Link a crisis or self-harm urge to the interpersonal event that set it off, usually a rejection or a feared one, and plan for safety (GPM). In this model a crisis is never treated as random.
Help the client spot the pattern as it happens, including when it happens with you, and only then try a different move (CAT).
The same client carries across modes. Start where you feel comfortable, then stretch.
Each client comes with a history, a presentation and measures. Read the referral as you would on placement, then begin.
The client responds to how you work. Make your mistakes here, where they cost nothing; hints come only if you ask for them.
A clear debrief on the core skills of your model (the CTS-R for CBT). Then take any one skill into a focused drill and work on it until it holds.
An experiential method in which the client speaks to an imagined person in an empty chair, or moves between two chairs to give voice to two parts of themselves. It reaches an emotion and changes it, rather than discussing it. EFT and Schema Therapy both use it.
EFT for depression and unresolved hurt, CAT for recurring relationship patterns, and GPM for borderline personality disorder in generalist settings.
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