Always Ten Minutes Late

The discovery phase of Coherence Therapy is featured in this workshop demonstration session.  When the client says she is "always ten minutes late," that is the point of departure for finding the implicit emotional learnings requiring that compulsive behavior.

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By following the coherence trail, the discovery work goes into the core of the insecure attachment and emotional wounds she endured in her family in childhood.  The client, recognizing for the first time not just one but several ways in which being ten minutes late has passionate emotional meaning for her, calls the session "a breakthrough."  The session has shifted her from being puzzled about a seemingly bad habit with a mysterious life of its own, into experiencing her own agency and purpose in implementing her solution to core problems in her life.

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You'll see how much core, symptom-generating material can be richly accessed in one session, without any hurry whatsoever, by following the coherence of the symptom—in other words, by focusing the discovery work entirely on eliciting how the symptom is emotionally necessary to have.

One session, 39 minutes (1 hour 14 minutes with voiceover commentaries)
Therapist:  Bruce Ecker, LMFT