What is the need that is linked with our core pain?
In Emotion-Focused Therapy, it is common for a therapist to ask questions that identify your core pain. The most painful aspect of what you experienced.
Once we jointly decide what your core pain is, after several sessions. The therapist will ask questions about what that pain needs. This core pain is linked with a basic human need.
Universal Human Needs
empathy
acknowledgment
connection
protection
compassion
validation
These needs are important.
Adapted from p. 64 of Learning emotion-focused therapy: A comprehensive guide (2nd ed.).
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