#7: Bruce Hersey - How I Built the Syzygy Institute - Healing Trauma by Combining EMDR, IFS, and Coherence Therapy.

Send us Fan Mail"The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is. Love is the subtlest force in the world." ~ Mahatma Gandhi(quote lifted from Bruce's bio page)How can you know what type of therapy is most likely to be helpful when the number of psychotherapies is vast and growing ?  One way is to learn from Bruce Hersey, who has 30 + years of clinical experience and a wide range of expertise, including Ericksonian Hypnosis, Psychodrama, EMDR, IFS, and Coherence Therapy. In this episode Bruce describes his evolution as a therapist,  and how he found convergent principles between 3 treatment modalities: EMDR, IFS, and Coherence Therapy.  Bruce describes his integrated approach for healing trauma, and how he created the Syzygy Institute, which teaches these methods to therapists.You will also hear about Bruce’s take on Meaning, and how music and the song Titanium helped him during a challenging time.Timestamps:00:00:23 - Intro00:05:00 - Concilience and EO Wilson00:15:00 - Ericksonian Hypnosis and NLP00:17:19 - Psychodrama00:28:00 - EMDR, bringing adaptive and dysfunctional memory networks together00:34:12 - Power and Challenges of EMDR00:40:17 - Ego States and IFS in EMDR00:44:00 - Understanding IFS and EMDR Connection00:50:52 - Comparing Dual Attention in EMDR and IFS01:02:00 - Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories01:14:20 - Caution and Meaning in Healing Therapies01:19:00 - The Meaning of Life According to BruceProduced by Dirk Winter and Violet ChernoffTheme Music by The Thrashing Skumz