Publications
Click here for the Contact Comfort Newsletter Archives.
For a copy of any of these articles, email me at lorrie@lbrubacher.com and I will be happy to email a copy to you.
Emotion Focused Therapy and the Satir Model
Satir Systemic Brief Therapy
Native ‘vision quests’ release healing power
Working with Client Resistance
Brubacher, L., Integrating Emotion-Focused Therapy with the Satir Model. (2006). Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, 32, 141-153.
Abstract
The experiential humanistic family systems approach of Virginia Satir lacks a theoretical structure and is thus vulnerable to losing its experiential nature and being reduced to a mere collection of creative techniques. A way to effectively keep Satir’s transformative presence alive is to integrate her approach with a model that is solidly grounded in explicit theory, relationship principles, and therapeutic skills and processes. The model proposed as appropriate to this effect is Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT). The Satir approach, when integrated with EFT, becomes a model for creating change in individual and family systems, that is indeed greater than the sum of its parts.
Brubacher, L., Experiencing Satir Systemic Brief Therapy Training. (1999). The Wisdom Box, Newsletter of The Satir Institute of the Pacific. Vol 2:2, 4-6.
Abstract
The experiential and transformational nature of this Satir approach is described through the lens of a therapist following an intensive week long residential training with John and Kathlyne Maki Banmen. Unique ways of perceiving and working with the iceberg as a metaphor for internal experience and the communication stances as assessment tools are presented. The inescapable spiritual aspects of this model are integrated, as the trainee explores congruence and the transformational nature of this model. Banmen’s rich, integrated process of transforming unmet expectations is described. The Satir model is affirmed as powerfully transformative, fully integrating emotions, cognition, body and spirit and deserving validity in the broader field of family therapy.
Brubacher, L., Native ‘vision quests’ release healing power of nature. (1997). Canadian Mennonite, 1:6, pp. 6-7.
Abstract
Two spiritual journeys: a four-day fast, called a ‘vision quest’ and secondly a fast of two days by the water and two nights by the fire, bridge the traditions of Christianity and native spirituality. Under the guidance of an Ojibway elder, experiences which began as a quest for comfort, direction and clarity proved to be transformative, healing and reassuring. The healing power of nature comes alive through meditation and fasting.
Mother Earth, whose womb is entered in the sweat lodge is experienced as a physical expression of God’s love.
Friesen, (Brubacher) L., Understanding and Working with Client Resistance (1995). Cognica, Canadian Guidance and Counselling Association. XXVII, 18-20. Presented at Canadian Guidance and Counselling Association, annual conference, 1994.
Abstract
Transition theory (Bridges) is presented as the backdrop for understanding resistance to change as a positive emotional resource. In the foreground is the client system and the counsellor’s task of working with the primary emotions (Greenberg & Safran) in the experience of resistance. A humanistic, experiential approach is presented as a means to work collaboratively with seemingly difficult or resistant clients.
Lorrie Brubacher, M.Ed.
RMFT (Canada) #89116, LMFT (NC) #1245
Director, Greensboro Charlotte Center for EFT
Individual, Couple and Family Therapist Certified EFT Supervisor and Trainer
611-77 Edmonton Street
Winnipeg, MB Canada R3C 4H8
204.221-4776
1816 Tennyson Court
Greensboro, NC 27410
336.392-0013
www.gcceft.com
www.lbrubacher.com
skype: lbrubacher
To schedule a FREE 10-minute telephone consultation to discuss my counselling services, please contact me at lorrie@lbrubacher.com or call me: in Winnipeg at 204-221-4776; in Greensboro, NC at 336-392-0013.
Individual and Couple Therapy and Couple Therapy Supervision and Training with Lorrie Brubacher available in-person in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Greensboro, North Carolina and by distance via webcam or telephone.
