Therapist uses HARRY POTTER | COPING w/ EMOTIONAL TRIGGERS

Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, Michael D. Nelson uses imagery from the Harry Potter movies to teach how using visualization, imagery, and referencing positive memories in our past can help combat trauma triggers.

Some Key Moments in this Video:

00:00 Dementors from the World of Harry Potter Can Represent How Certain Emotional Triggers Affect Us
01:23 As Wizards in the World of Harry Potter Learn to Use A Patronus Charm to Battle Dementors We Can Use Positive Memories and Associations in our Brain to Combat Negative Emotions
03:26 The Basics of Mental and Emotional "Resourcing"
04:48 An Example of "Resourcing" Using Hermoine Granger
05:41 We Benefit from Noticing the Link Between What We Imagine and How Our Nervous System Responds
09:13 Outro/Invitation

DISCLAIMER: There is no “one size fits all” approach to mental health or therapy. What is helpful for one person may be very harmful to another. Just a reminder that content in the Play Therapy series is intended as appreciation of story-telling in cinema, media, and the arts while reflecting on mental health. It is not necessarily intended as specific clinical advice for *your* life or situation. Please weigh content in these videos against the advice and care of professionals who know *you* and the context of your individual situation.

[cheryls_child]

This is amazing and does such a great job of explaining EMDR resourcing. I am adding this to my lists of videos to share about EMDR. It can be hard to put into my own words at times particularly when someone is skeptical.