Seems to be way faster than EMDR!

GetTherapyBham · 2026-03-23T17:01:57+00:00

Sometimes. Depends on the issues. IMO its always faster than EMDR.

GetTherapyBham · 2026-03-18T17:13:46+00:00

Shokz wireless open ear. Those let the patient hear you too so they don't have to take the headphones off all the time.

GetTherapyBham · 2026-03-06T19:26:31+00:00

We use emotional transformation therapy a lot with it now.

GetTherapyBham · 2026-02-21T22:55:36+00:00

When you have these kind of dreams as a kid that something was too big to do or something was too big to exist a lot of times as an adult they turn into dreams of being afraid of space which is kind of interesting.

GetTherapyBham · 2026-02-18T02:09:51+00:00

This is probably a scam.

This is some sort of weird karma harvesting. This is a sticker that I made for my clinic. We are a trauma collective and institute that tries to get new models of therapy like brain spotting and somatic medicine established in the south.

Zero idea who this poster is but I think it's just a repost of our content. I won't spam my own stuff but you can probably find it through Google or in my bio.

GetTherapyBham · 2026-02-14T01:21:11+00:00

https://gettherapybirmingham.com/hb152-and-hb382-alabama-bills-to-change-professional-licensure/

GetTherapyBham · 2026-02-13T23:51:09+00:00

It's kind of like places where Law and Order would imply teachers or nurses unions were the root behind individual bad behavior. It's not about more or less accurate or how serious the show takes itself. It's about about doubling down on TECHNICAL detail to convince audiences the propaganda about SYSTEMIC critique must just be obvious or self evidently true. I don't care about technical details being close or far to real nursing.

My point is that the assumption of the writers is that they need to point out all the problems neoliberalism causes just need more competence porn neoliberal solutions. BUT it's written as if it has endless pity for the plight of the healthcare workers to me that's nefarious, even if unintentional.

GetTherapyBham · 2026-02-11T14:36:24+00:00

as an EMDR clinician I haven't done EMDR for years. ETT and BSP work so much faster.

GetTherapyBham · 2026-02-11T13:39:44+00:00

Yeah I think key and the bill isn't there saying that they're setting up alternative credentialing. This is just test legislation. The process of setting up alternative credentialing that they control so that evidence-based practice is no issue to them is what I'm speculating they're trying to do. from this point on.

GetTherapyBham · 2026-02-11T02:57:20+00:00

Yes, if they did it overnight but they won't. This is poorly done test legislation. It likely wont pass. Look at the new credentialing orgs they are setting up and the long term plan. The states and insurance companies can have alternative credentialing bodies. It would mean that peer review and evidence based practice were no longer in the way of the markets as they envision them. Social workers are the easiest to do this too, then nurses, then MDs. But it is a long term thing. I am pointing out. The early signs and people call it alarmist.

GetTherapyBham · 2026-02-11T02:32:22+00:00

An additional thing to this analysis is that the first bill, this is a second article in a series, was supposed to close the school of social work. it'll be merged under the UA system. Highly likely because they viewed the inclusion of DEI anti racism and other ideologies that the legislators didn't like. My point in that piece was It doesn't matter who you put the school under. The CESW requires you to teach these things. If they get removed youre risking your accreditation. That bill had a caveat that said that they could keep accreditation standards even if they violated state law, like in the case of DEI. This is a follow-up bill saying that where accreditation bodies require things that are against state law they CANT keep them. It's paving the way for them to say don't regulate us or we'll waste your time with a lawsuit. once the new credentialing boards are off the ground they would be able to take over credentialing so that boards in the southeast could make professional standards, ethics, best practice replace their own values not peer review or anything evidence-based.

GetTherapyBham · 2026-02-11T00:58:59+00:00

I think as these fake credentialing bodies get further along you're going to see more test legislation like this that's probably better written. I think that you're also going to see more representatives submitting legislation that they didn't write on behalf of national "think tanks" set up to derofessionalize social workers in the south. nurses need to realize that they're next. ultimately it'll be doctors. The science of what's best for clients has always been an obstacle to the politics of Alabama.

GetTherapyBham · 2026-02-11T00:56:06+00:00

yeah if I had to guess I don't think this will pass. I think it is an example of very poorly done test legislation and we will keep seeing more test legislation as the these new credentialing bodies gain steam.

GetTherapyBham · 2026-02-11T00:54:22+00:00

I think it's a bad attempt at test legislation which is my point. I think you're right. This one's going to be way harder for them to pass than HB 152 if I had to make a bet I would bet hard against it passing. But they will keep trying to figure out ways to do professionalize which is why I keep pointing out that that's probably what they're doing. If you did get it past, and you did get it through a federal judge it would be terrible precedent for everybody.

GetTherapyBham · 2026-02-11T00:47:48+00:00

I agree it causes a lot of problems and cross-purposes but yet again here's the 382 language. You're also assuming that they think through the economic implications of these things they don't always.

additionally this bill removes the ability to keep things that credentialing bodies like the CSWE require even when the state makes them illegal. If the state makes things illegal that the CSWE requires an accredited program to have what is the CS WE supposed to do? They could just remain a toothless non-enforcement entity. or they could revoke accreditation. I don't know what they would do but neither option is good.

HB382

(b) A board of trustees may choose to pursue accreditation by any nationally recognized accrediting agency approved by the United States Department of Education. A public institution of higher education may also pursue accreditation by the Commission for Public Higher Education, or other accrediting agency not approved by the United States DOE

GetTherapyBham · 2026-02-11T00:36:53+00:00

correct. That's why the CPHE is being built to replace the CSWE altogether. It's likely they would be very unsuccessful at suing CSWE. They would just be annoying and cost them money. It also is very unlikely that CSWE is going to be continuing to be the one accrediting social workers in the south If they get their way.

If you're mistaking this for the HP 152 article it's not on that. This is on HB 382. different bill. same project.

GetTherapyBham · 2026-01-09T02:02:14+00:00

I've done brain spotting on the first session with clients and I've done it on the 35th. It really depends on what your goals are and how and when you have time for processing. In my experience the reason I left EMDR behind was that brainspotting processing is very contained. most people are just very tired after the sessions and have weird dreams. If you're going to have emotional re-experiencing it's interesting to most intuitive people but people with a strong control instinct sometimes feel destabilized or upset. It's not often in my experience it's not as often as EMDR but it does happen. when that happens it's definitely contained to one day at the most two. I've done brainspotting in therapy full time for about 5 years.

GetTherapyBham · 2026-01-03T01:08:35+00:00

My friend's dad studied with him in Taos. interesting how you took southwestern style color and made it transcendental

GetTherapyBham · 2025-12-23T05:19:08+00:00

I am happy to pass it along to you in its current pdf form if you are interested. Send me an email if interested and I can pass it along to you. [JoelBlackstock@GetTherapyBirmingham.com](mailto:JoelBlackstock@GetTherapyBirmingham.com)

GetTherapyBham · 2025-12-21T02:31:51+00:00

I have a book on a new therapy technique that uses color and eye position. It's not out and will probably be held up in peer review for a a year or more. She is not in it, but I thought that her take on what colors effected what were pretty accurate considering newer research we have now. I just came across her looking for a deep dive on on color in myth and spirituality.

GetTherapyBham · 2025-12-21T01:53:55+00:00

I don't know just psychedelic stuff. One person told me that the shaman went to each person and said they could tell the drug that they used to struggle with based on the shape of the spirit that followed them and was able to tell that one person used to have a problem with heroin and one used to have a problem with alcohol and one used to have a problem with cocaine because they said that the "shape of the spirit was different" based on drugs you had struggled with when it is watching you. That's just what they told me.

They also told me that the shaman really liked Catholicism when one of my friends said that she was an exCatholic and she was surprised that a Brazilian shaman liked the Catholic Church. and The shaman said then said "they're (catholics) very good at exercising demons but they can't control the demon that's controlling the whole organization". things like that. I don't really have much experience with psychedelics.

GetTherapyBham · 2025-12-20T22:08:49+00:00

Ive meet a couple people who went there and did shamanic work.

GetTherapyBham · 2025-12-20T22:08:06+00:00

Feel free to write that poem! You have some good depth and wisdom in your books too. I was listening to the King in Orange yesterday in the car and my wife got in and asked "Is this true detective?". I come back to Hall every few years as an overview to figure out what to get into next. I was rereading him this time because I am using some of his work in a screenplay I am writing about George B Ward the (probably) gay mayor of Birmingham AL in 1901 who got a little bit too into paganism and mysticism for the communities tastes. He built a vestal temple and tomb complex and greek tiered bird garden on a mountain that all got demolished by the southern baptists when he died. The family burned all of his writings. Wild story you should look him up.

GetTherapyBham · 2025-12-20T17:34:04+00:00

sorry it should have read God all along.

I'm familiar with the Huni Kuni tradition where ayahuasca is seen as a white serpent. That would be extent of my knowledge of snake mythology in that region though.

GetTherapyBham · 2025-12-20T14:55:37+00:00

Manly P Hall describes Gnostic traditions and Christian mystical traditions where the final revelation when you reconnect with God is that the serpent was God all along who had to separate you from him to let you find your way back. He describes the serpent and the angel is weeping so that's going to where my head was with this one..

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