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THE ROLE OF CAP

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CAP is a psycho-emotional therapy using an artistic mediation that is particularly effective because it avoids the risk of reliving a trauma that can sometimes occur when the therapy focuses too much on the violence suffered. CAP works very gently to "defuse" traumatic memory while allowing for the reconnection of the body, mind and emotion.

Thanks to CAP, those that have been traumatized regain emotional balance, psychological stability, meaningful relationships, and a body free from violence and suffering. They regain the ability to integrate their thoughts, emotions and body to live a more productive and peaceful existence.

CAP uses creative media such as drawing, or painting made under musical induction to achieve change. While creative expression is facilitated by listening to music, symbolic expression through drawing provides an outlet where words fail.

"Music is the language of emotions"

Emmanuel Kant.

Our experience has shown us the importance of Carl G. Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious and the need of therapeutic interventions that facilitate the exploration of the unconscious for healing emotional trauma. Treatment which allows a reconnection with the world of symbols and images has a powerful mobilizing function. It has the capacity to restore the psyche disrupted by trauma.

CAP operates on multiple levels which allow for deep work on the visible symptoms as well as on the underlying and hidden origin which leads to the persistence of these symptoms.

The following are the major contributions of CAP in the treatment of traumas:

creates a unique relationship between the therapist and the sharing of the client’s drawings that engages the client’s emotional world in complete safety
retrieves traumatic memory much more easily and less threateningly than traditional verbal therapies
allows for the access of traumatic memories that are often stored in the form of images and feelings rather than words
provides contact of previously inaccessible traumatic memories without endangering oneself
reduces the symptoms of anxiety and mood disorders
symbolically externalize memories of traumatic events and thus liberating oneself from them
reactivates positive emotions and self-esteem

ANNA MARIA 55 years old

See how Anne-Maria rebuilt herself by becoming aware of multiple traumatic life events experienced during her childhood

Anna Maria's has been a psychologist for over 30 years. Her entire journey as a therapist was built on the vital need to repair the childhood traumas she experienced and which she was never able to integrate as a child. Anne-Marie was left alone in an institution from the ages of 3 to 6 without any contact with her parents or other family members. At the age of six, she was reintroduced to her parents, a dismissive mother and a father deeply disturbed by the war who exhibited unpredictable and destructive behavior. She lived her childhood under fear and feeling insecure and neglected.

She became a single parent at the age of 22 and struggled with living a balanced life while supervising her daughter's education, maintaining her professional life, while developing her human and spiritual values. During this period, she was also being driven by a deep desire to elevate herself and give meaning to her life.

Adopting a lifestyle filled with constant frantic activity, she became hyperactive, hypervigilant and believing “everything” was under control. While passing from one unfinished project to another at the whim of impulses, the majority of these unrealistic expectations became a source of failure and contributed to a deteriorating self-image.

She believed that by taking care of others, she could rebuild the past that left her with a deplorable image of herself. She never allowed herself to take the time to consider her emotional lability, her fragmented schedule and “radical” decision making, her impulsive behavior punctuated by desire and angry outbursts or, on the contrary, depression after each repeated failure.

After an accident, she was faced with her self-sabotage behaviors. This opportunity encouraged her to stop the self-destructive journey she was on and to confront her inner “demons”. Eventually this resulted in an emotional collapse, which forced to retreat from her professional and social activities.

When she started the CAP sessions, she was feeling hopeless, discouraged and was unable to imagine a life filled with joy and optimism.

Gradually and gently the CAP process helped her to cope with her own fragility when forgotten memories and repressed emotions emerged and gave her the ability to examine the pieces of her life story with compassion. It allowed her, for the first time in her life, to put image and words to her own suffering.

Today Anne-Marie has succeeded in finding serenity. She has regained her integrity, rebuilt emotional balance and maintains healthy relationships. Over time Anne-Marie has worked towards establishing realistic goals and is restoring day by day, a positive image of herself. She was able to discuss her feeling about her childhood with her mother and stopped blaming her for her life choices. This was not only a powerful release for herself but also for her mother bring peace to their relationship as adults.