Services include:
• Clients: Find or request a therapist in your area
• Therapists: Post your services- Let clients find you
• Download materials for running professional groups
•Private eCONSULTATION with author (for an additional fee)
* Go to HELPER CENTER for more clinical information about abandonment.
THERAPIST POSTINGS
These services are just getting started and we need therapists, coaches, sponsors, and clients to join up and post your services and needs and needs to create a supportive network for abandonment survivors throughout the world.
Therapists: Please help us out by posting your services.
Clients: Please help us out by posting your interest in finding a therapist.
Therapists: You can post your name, location, and credentials (including training with Susan Anderson) so that prospective abandonment clients can get in touch with you. If applicable, mention your experience in guiding people through AKeRU, Swirl process, and Swan Lessons, etc. It would be helpful to provide information that allows clients to validate your professional credentials - an agency you work for, or perhaps the website of a state licensing board or professional organization. Therapists who are running abandonment groups, can post here as well as Group Postings. When you post your services, please state your area code first so clients can find you.FIND A THERAPIST
Clients: If you are looking for a therapist in your area and no one has yet posted, log-in and post your interest in finding one right here.
Thank you for posting and for contributing to the abandonment recovery movement.
DOWNLOAD MATERIALS
For professionals interested in running Abandonment Groups, we will download the professional group protocol - "25 Group Recipes." Request through Q&A.Dear Colleagues,
Bounce your cases off of me and I’ll lend my impression or respond with strategies for dealing with the powerful emotional dynamics of abandonment.We’ll attempt to:
• Distinguish normal (albeit intense) abandonment grief from the onset of major depression
• Discern acute abandonment crisis from chronic patterns such as mood or anxiety disorders
• Identify acute symptoms of abandonment trauma, including:
Re-emerging symbiotic feelings
Increased risk-taking
Neglected self-care
Anorexia
Suicidality
Panic
Need to self-medicate
Borderline regression and other forms of acting out• Identify chronic symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder of Abandonment, (see "Journey from Abandonment…" for complete list of abandonment’s posttraumatic symptoms) including:
Difficulty forming primary relationships
Rejection-sensitivity
Poor self-image
Addiction
Co-addiction
Chronic insecurity.
• Share techniques for working through our client’s tendency to be stuck in abandoholic or abandophobic patterns, or in one the five stages of abandonment grief.
• Share ways of dealing with the intense transference our clients exhibit during their abandonment crises including:
Over-dependence upon therapist
Hostility
Missing appointments
Unrealistic expectations toward therapeutic process, etc.
• Clients often temporarily revert to default defenses, i.e. becoming over-controlling toward the abandoner, punitive, self-abdicating. How to move the still fragile, narcissistically injured patient out of protest, blame, and self-denial, and into emotional self-reliance and forward motion.
FEE STRUCTURE:
Telephone consult with author 25 minutes $100.
Up to 3 Email sessions $100.
Dear Colleagues,
In describing your case(s), please limit to a paragraph and allow the additional pertinent information to unfold through our exchange. I will respond as soon as I am able.
Before submitting this paragraph, write me a brief email below stating your professional affiliation and tell me whether you are signing up for a phone or email consultation. Your name will be added to waiting list and I will contact you as soon as I am available.*Services are offered on a limited basis.
Do not complete Step 1 unless
you are sure you want to sign up for services.