Path To The Present

Testimonals

What People are Saying:

This Gentle version has helped me to quickly and easily achieve relief, insight, and substantial shifts/movement.  I believe Gentle is a truly revolutionary breakthrough, allowing me to ease in quietly and simply remove the underpinnings associated with years of trauma, pain, or dysfunction.  Under Diane’s attentive guidance, undesirable habitual behaviors and responses were directly and rapidly transformed, while the dysfunction fades in the face of a more common sense perspective. Client

For anyone who has spent years in talk therapy as I did, finding Diane Spindler and her work is truly a miracle.  Working with guided imagery and Gentle – bilateral stimulation, Diane and I were able to blast through years of trauma and resolve and release old emotional patterns quickly and easily.  I worked intensively with Diane over a 10 month period, once a week, every Monday.  At the end I was left clear, balanced, whole and equipped with a tool box to resolve issues on my own.  The work was deep and profoundly transformative and I have and will continue to recommend Diane to anyone who is in need of deep healing for trauma to the mental, emotional and spiritual bodies.  She is a sensitive, intuitive and strong healing force for good and I am blessed to have had the gift of her work in my life.  Client

Nine months ago, I embarked on a journey that I never could have imagined, one
that defined a new start to a better life. That journey began nine months ago
with a family in crises, two small vibrating paddles and a caring guide.

As I spoke to you and we began a process that was unknown to me at the time, (GR) I felt myself RELAX and RELEASE what we were discussing for the first time in my life.

Our therapy has changed my life, my husband's life and my child's life. I am
not a different person for it, but a better person. For the first time in my
life, I have a sense of well being. Without the GR, I do not want to even
speculate where my life would have been right now, but the progress that we have made with this process in a shorter time than I could have ever imagined has made a better life for my entire family. Client

Dear Diane,
Yesterday I had occasion to use GR with a client who was having a phobic reaction to an anticipatory phobia. This client is a DID and she was able to bring all parts with the Adult Wise Self to the rock in the river. We turned on the tappers. With some help from the Wise Self each part was able to unburden the fear, sadness and shame that was connected to the phobia and the traumatic memory feeding the phobia. She was able to clear the strong emotional charge and move to a calmness so that when she put her attention back on the object of the phobia there was no reaction. She was able to give all parts positive cognitions including that they are safe now, they have choices now, the abuse is over and they can stay in the present trusting the Adult Wise Self.
Pat Thatcher LICSW

“I love this approach! It uses the strength of EMDR without the risks of re-traumatizing. This takes EMDR to a deeper level.”.              S. Schwartz LICSW

To Whom It May Concern:
Use of Gentle Reprocessing in treating phobias:
A 21 year old female complaining of depression and anxiety due to trauma and contracting three sexually transmitted diseases.  Depression symptoms were lifting when client complained of having phobia of trains. She could not go into a train station while the train was there or drive/walk by train tracks when train was going by without experiencing intense fear. I used GR on the fear connected to trains. Fear resolved and client on longer experienced an discomfort regarding trains.
Lori Miller-Freitas, LICSW

Diane,
After using Gentle Reprocessing with my most fragile anorexic client, she said, “I feel better. Maybe I could eat.” This demonstrates the power of GR and the value of working with metaphor to reduce the intensity of the affect connected to trauma.
Barbara Gangemi, LMHC

Dear Ms. Spindler,

After having attended your workshop on ‘Gentle Reprocessing” sponsored by NASW at Boston University a few months ago, I left with great hope that I now had a new tool with which to help people heal. I had Level I EMDR training in 2002 and had been invigorated by that addition to my skills. However, this form of the be-lateral modality seemed to be able to reach a wider population than I was willing to engage with the traditional model. I had attended a conference in the Fall of 03 where Belleruth Naparsteck, LISW, had offered the healing power of ‘Guided Imagery’. She had spoken of the research indicating that EMDR and Guided Imagery appeared to be the most successful modalities in helping people to heal their trauma. You had been able to combine these two very affective aspects of healing and several of my clients are benefiting from your endeavors. I wanted to thank you for your work. The results have given me a great opportunity for clients with whom I would likely have continued to offer only traditional psychotherapy. Having completed my MSW at Boston College in 1977, I have offered decades of traditional psychotherapy and certainly treat my share of trauma working so often with co-existing diagnosis throughout the years.

I would like to offer a couple of examples of some of the work that has been done. One middle-aged female who had had multiple hospitalizations having been diagnosed with Bi-Polar II, PTSD, and Alcohol Dependence had begun work with me in 1999. Much of the PTDS centered around years of incest. She went from hospitals to homelessness to resthomes, etc. She was struggling with a form of Karsikoff’s from the alcoholism. Though she had been recently clean and sober for over a year, we rarely touched upon the trauma issues until ‘GR’. It was a couple of days after session #4 where an aspect of the incest had been targeted that I asked her how it had been for her. She said, “It’s weird.” She went on to say she felt as though she had “been purged”. She also reported “it felt like a cleansing of my soul”…….Few people would have imagined this woman alive at this point let alone feeling this kind of relief from her past.

Another middle-aged gentleman with 40 plus hospitalizations though none in the past 7 years or so was able to engage in the ‘GR’. He has struggled with Major Depressive Disorder and what is likely PTSD for decades. His alcoholism has been in remission for many years. The shift I saw in him was more subtle, but very significant. For various reasons, he has never been able to set limits with a family member without feeling guilty, yet soon after ‘GR’ he actually let the person know that if their behavior did not change, he would not assist them on that day. This was a great shift for a man who was not able to follow through with such an idea for decades.

I have also used your modality on those with mental health disorders combined with Methadone treatment as well. It has been well received and it is making sense to people to rid themselves of levels of stored up feelings in this way in order to move forward free of their weight and limiting effects.

I would enjoy keeping you posted as I utilize the ‘GR’ with my various clients. Again, I feel it is a wonderful tool to help people shift the trauma experience via metaphor and bilateral stimulation.

Sincerely,
Ginger Montenegro Hadley, LICSW, LAD I, CADAC II

 The emotions of the target are reprocessed using guided, client generated metaphors. Clients can then neutralize disturbances without all the painful re-witnessing of the traumatic details.  Star Potts, LICSW 

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