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In October 2023 Elisa Muñoz Blanco starts her master’s degree in Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy of the Spanish Society of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy and the University San Jorge.
With the aim of adapting to the needs of each person, Elisa decides to access the Diploma in Psychotherapy after completing eight independent Expert Courses:
Expert in Psychosomatic Medicine and Health Psychology
Expert in Brief Psychotherapy
Expert in Clinical and Intervention in Trauma with EMDR
Expert in Advanced Training with EMDR
Expert in Personality Disorders
Expert in Eating Disorders
Expert in Brief Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
Expert in Brief Couple Psychotherapy
Each of them is also accredited by the Joint Commission for the Evaluation of Psychotherapy Programs of the Official College of Psychology of Madrid (COPM) and the Federation of Associations of Psychologists and Medical Psychotherapists of Spain (FAPYMPE).
References
https://www.psicociencias.org/
Psychosomatic Medicine is a therapeutic orientation that defends that biomedical, psychological, and social concepts are segments of the same clinical attitude. It supposes a broader conception of illness and health and as such, a different form of evaluation and treatment.
From this perspective, the different diseases can also be understood as an expression of the patient’s affective state, of his or her unresolved personal conflicts and difficulties in social adaptation, of his or her traumatic history. The well-prepared professional must have a thorough knowledge of how to intervene in these cases.
Elisa Muñoz Blanco has been working for more than 20 years within this therapeutic framework, forming a team with professionals of integrated psychotherapy with extensive experience.
References
E.M.D.R. (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a therapeutic technique used to desensitize and reprocess psychological traumas. It was created in 1987 by Dr. Francine Shapiro.
It uses bilateral hemispheric stimulation, either by eye movements or with sounds or tapping, with which one cerebral hemisphere is stimulated at a time.
Different multidisciplinary studies have shown that the Bilateral Stimulation on which E.M.D.R. is based produces the synchronization of the activity of the 2 cerebral hemispheres, and a conditioned relaxation response by activating the parasympathetic, inhibiting the fight-flight response and favoring a more adaptive exploratory-orienting response.
E.M.D.R. is endorsed by the World Health Organization and the International Clinical Guidelines for the treatment of ADHD.
References:
https://www.psicociencias.org/
Focusing is a practice of experiential, embodied, evidence-based self-reflection. It is called Focusing because it requires a special kind of “focusing” to notice what is still unclear, fuzzy, and vague, implicit in the way we interact with situations and the environment. This fuzzy dimension of experience is called “felt sense.” Focusing on the “felt sense” allows an in-depth clarification process to take place.
Focusing is often compared to Mindfulness, Zen, and different types of meditations. In Focusing, language is used to explain how something is experienced and, in this way, one learns to (re)connect language with the ongoing bodily experience.
Focusing has found applications in a wide range of fields, starting with psychotherapy, and extending to healthcare, education, parenting, decision-making, conflict resolution and much more.
Research since the 1960s has shown conclusively that clients who come into contact in a Focusing way with their experiential process are more successful in psychotherapy than those who are unaware of this act of embodied self-reflection.
References:
https://focusing.org/
A therapeutic process that helps the mind and body get rid of the residual effects of past trauma and negative experiences.
Most clinical approaches separate mind and body (“you have psychotherapy, or you have physical therapy”). Dr. John E. Upledger realized that some of the physical symptoms are not fully healed until an emotional component is released as well.
We know that a radical change in physical health whether for better or worse is invariably
accompanied by a profound mental change. We also know from behavioral and body language studies that the reverse is equally true – a change in mental outlook is always accompanied by a change in body movement, posture, and activity.
Somato Emotional Release® (SER®) facilitates personal growth, helps us move from illness to health, and is an ingenious tool for ordering our lives and redesigning our future.
References
http://www.upledger.co.uk
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