Compassionate inquiry, or CI, is a treatment modality that focuses on how past traumas, adverse experiences, coping strategies, and negative associations can cause distress and self-defeating automatic responses in our current day to day lives. Through a gentle process of mutual exploration, the therapist and client discover areas in which personal history has left a destabilizing mark. The therapist then guides the client to become explicitly aware of the pattern as they discover a way to break free. CI was developed by Dr. Gabor Maté, a physician, master therapist, and best-selling Canadian author. On the Compassionate Inquiry website, Dr. Maté describes how this treatment modality can help clients “see what story they are telling themselves unconsciously” and liberate themselves from it, along with any negative assumptions, implicit memories, and body states that.
The root cause and emotional forces driving addiction, distress, reactivity, and other mental health challenges can be uncovered and transformed using the insight-building techniques of compassionate inquiry. The goal is to arrive at a place where we are able to let go of coping strategies that keep us numb, disconnected, and stuck in order to feel fully alive and better able to engage with the world.
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