Issues with CPT

[pelicantown]

I've been in "regular" psychotherapy (talk therapy, I suppose!) for 6+ years now and have strived to start sex therapy with a different specialist. I've had two sessions with her now and enjoy them, but the cognitive processing therapy that we've been doing just doesn't seem to resonate with me.

I feel like it's more so for people who have persistent thought patterns and "If X then Y type" thought processes, but I'm someone who doesn't really have any thoughts in that manner ( ). She gave me an exercise to do on "stuck points" but it took me eons to even try and think of an "If X then Y" statement or an action-consequence statement.

I'm someone who is very physiological where I simply feel emotions but don't have a thought behind them necessarily. Do I talk to her and revert back to talk therapy??? For the record, the "opposite end" of the spectrum, EMDR, also did not work for me when I tried it briefly (about 3-4 sessions). I simply started dissociating and it stopped becoming effective.

[Kizzie]

Just my thoughts PT, but I think we are (or need to be) in the driver's seat when it comes to therapy. If you feel like you want/need to speak up/look for another therapist then absolutely do so. There are so many different therapeutic approaches for CPTSD that we need to find what works for us.