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Treatment Plan
Session One - Free Consultation
The first session is the same no matter if you want to continue or not. You will need to be prepared to share:
- Your reason for coming to therapy.
- Your life history and any substantial events.
- Your aspirations for treatment.
I will offer an overview of SIMT, how it works, and what it can offer you.
At the end, we will agree if we will move forward together, the cost of treatment, and make a commitment to creating the treatment plan.
Assessment and Education Phase
Over the assessment phase, we will begin to piece together how your negative life beliefs (schemas) and coping responses to these are contributing to your reason for coming to therapy. As well as through conversation and questioning, we will try and identify these schemas through musical interaction.
At the end, usually 4-6 sessions, we will put it all down in a tailored treatment plan, identifying which parts of yourself we need to support, nurture, or still. We will also have established a creative 'safe space' that you can retreat to if the work becomes too close or too raw.
Change Phase
In the change phase, we will work together to change your life-patterns through addressing the ingrained beliefs you hold about yourself. We will address this through musical improvisation as an outlet for these life-patterns, allowing them to be expressed in a unique way.
We will begin to build a case against these life-patterns and beliefs, perhaps engaging in themes or songs designed to address them and internalise corrections to them. We will begin to shape what a healthy you looks like, based on both your and my beliefs, and how we can achieve that.
Transition Phase
The transition phase is where you will begin to take charge of the therapeutic endeavour. Perhaps you will begin to know what it is you need in order to treat your life-beliefs, or have gained an in-depth understanding of what you need and how to achieve it.
Ending Phase
The ending phase should be well-planned and feel easy and well-timed. At this point, you will be able to engage in self-dialogue and correction to remind yourself about your life-beliefs, and alternative ways of coping with them.
Due to the collaboration, you will have been given all the therapeutic understanding of the clinician to take away with your, and enabled to take charge of your growth. You should feel ready to strike it out on your own.