Impact Therapy Ed Jacobs, Director Impact Therapy Associates
457 Broadway Ave.
Star City, WV 26505
Ed.Jacobs@mail.wvu.edu
   
 
 
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The following pictures are from four different counseling sessions with middle school students.  The pictures are presented to give you an idea of how active and multi-sensory an impact therapist is.  Depicted is what the counselor drew, wrote, or used to make her point during these different sessions.   The use of REBT and TA is apparent in the drawings. Impact therapists often use a whiteboard or flipchart to make the counseling multi-sensory. 

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In this session, the counselor used Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. She used the analogy of  Not True and True tapes and drew pictures to represent the tapes. The Volume Up and Down arrows to make the point that the client needs to turn down the volume on the not true tapes and increase the volume on the true tapes.  She also wrote out what the client could tell himself.  Also the counselor used TA theory and talked about the Hurt Child.

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In this session, the counselor used the TA theory and showed the different egostates of the client and a teacher. Also the counselor used 1-10 ratings to make a point. Also it appears that the counselor used a drawing to make a point about fairness.

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In this picture, the counselor wanted to show  all  the different multi-sensory techniques she used during one session.  She used the whiteboard, chairs, the large beer bottle to make the point that someone definitely had a drinking problem, the red bricks, a tape that needed edited, and stories from different books. Clients very often come back the next session and talk about one or more of the props that were used in the previous sessions.

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In this session, the counselor is trying to help the client understand her dad. It appears that the client rated her dad as a 3. The counselor also used TA to help the client understand herself, her dad and someone named Bobbi. She also wrote in some of the self-talk and behavior that was going on in each of the egostates.

Piture 5

This is a picture of a bulletin board in a counselor office that was created by a school counselor who had studied impact therapy. This captures many of the concepts of impact therapy.

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Bulletin Board

   

 

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