Clint Matheny

  My Favorite Saying : “We are all children pretending to be adults, some of us do not know we are pretending, and some of us are doing a lousy job pretending.” Author unknown This blog began in January 2020. I am a seventy-eight year old part time psychotherapist and …

The 13th century poet Rumi wrote, “the cure for pain is in the pain”. The “FreeSpoting” technique is an easy to learn technique that is highly efficient and effective. It will defuse almost any unwanted emotion in a very short time (less than 5 minutes). Any unwanted emotion! It’s not …

A trauma is not an experience. It is an emotional response to an experience. A trauma is something that happens to you and that makes you so upset that it overwhelms you. What is a trauma to you, might not be a trauma to others. It all depends on our …

Washington Post Opinion article by Garry Trudeau July 10, 2023 : Garry Trudeau is the creator of Doonesbury, where he has been commenting on wounded warrior issues for more than three decades. All around the conference room in Atlanta last fall, jaws were dropping. Michael Roy, a physician from the …

November 12, 2022: In Mathew Perry’s Autobiography: Half his life spent in and out of treatment or sober-living centers. “Fourteen stays in rehab. Sixty-five times in detox, beginning at age 26, two years into co-starring in the 10-year TV sitcom juggernaut that was “Friends.” Fourteen surgeries. More than 6,000 Alcoholic Anonymous …

There are two audio recordings: The actual intervention and the followup 29 years later. There are eight types of depression. This post is about how I treat clients with the most common depression in the USA. It is called,  “Major Depression” (or “Clinical Depression”). People that have this type of …

In 1985, thirteen year old Lucinda changed my beliefs on what is possible in a therapy session. I had been doing therapy for less than a year. Are your expectations affecting your clients expectations? This 1998 video is 12 minutes long. It is a followup of the 1985 session. In …

I did a 4 year followup video with Jay in 1999. On August 1, 1995, Jay was in a horrendous vehicle accident. For over 6 months after the accident Jay was blind in his left eye, the eye was bloodshot in a fixed position towards his nose, and he was …

This is my second posting with follow ups on healing “Depression” with “Clean Language”. The first posting was using Clean Language on Metaphors to heal depression (see the link at bottom of page) will give you a better understanding of the intervention. Could it be that 99 % of our …

“Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me you built a time machine?” You will better understand this post if you have read my post: what-is-clean-language-therapy/ More than likely you have never thought about the origins of the emotions you experience. Over 99% of our emotions originated before we were seven …

To better understand this client session with a three year old, see the Part 1  post on this subject. Both clients had their younger selves “frozen in time”. What does that mean? Our psyche protects us by stopping the worst moments of a traumatic event from happening to protect our …

This session on depression took place in 1985. There are two other post on this blog dealing with depression: https://clintmatheny.cdn-pi.com/healing-major-depression/ &  healing-depression-disassociation-using-clean-language-16-year-follow-up/ A 28 year old man I will call “Bill” came to see me for depression. Bill told me that he had been depressed since age 5. I asked …

  This intervention shows the power of “Clean Language Therapy” healing a middle age woman’s panic attacks in one 25 minutes therapy session. https://clintmatheny.cdn-pi.com/what-is-clean-language-therapy/ Asthma is a serious condition that can cause death. Stress may cause asthma or acerbate the condition. Many times doctors misdiagnose panic attacks to be  asthma …

This video has two follow up interviews on Deborah’s two “clean language metaphor”sessions with me. During the first session in 1995 Deborah’s Esophagitis, Spastic Colon (IBS), and Gastritis was healed. I wasn’t aware of her medical conditions at the time of the session. In Deborah’s first session with me in …

“The Havening Technique” was developed in 2013, by the two Ruben brothers, Ronald and Steven . This technique is great for relaxing and the healing of painful emotions (to include PTSD). This 18 minute YouTube video by Tam Johnston gives an outstanding biological explanation of the science behind this Mindbody …

Sigmund’s Psychoanalytic Couch Sigmund Freud got two things right: almost all adult psychological problems are rooted in childhood and he allowed his clients to avoid making eye to eye contact during the therapy session by placing himself behind the client. When you require the client to maintain the western social norm …

After my previous post, I had many request for stories on some more emergencies. This somewhat violates my  purpose for the blog, so these are my last posts on this subject. Maybe someday I might make a separate website for my other FAA experiences. I am also a licensed pilot …

The Trigger Of My PTSD Nightmares On April 16, 1998,  I was working as a radar air traffic controller for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at Houston International Airport (IAH). I was fifty-three years old. The ceilings and visibilities were very low in the area. I was very busy working …

Some people do not believe “repressed traumatic memories” are real. In a 2  year period I had two traumas showed up after being repressed for more than 30 years. Both traumatic  memories were triggered by something happening that reminded my subconscious of a similar experience and it then became conscious …

Thirty- five years ago a client asked me if it were possible to recover memories of her mother before the age of four. Her mother died of pneumonia when my client was four years old. My client didn’t have any conscious memories of her mother other than her mother’s funeral. …

I am going to teach you a few techniques to interrupt a panic attack. First you should get a diagnosis that you were actually experiencing an emotional panic attack. First see your primary care provider to determine if you are having panic attacks, panic disorder or another condition, such as …

This recording should only be played only in a safe place where you can use your complete focus of attention. After listening to the recording the first time you can use progressive relaxation from memory to go to sleep, or just relax, and I’m sure you will find other uses. Make sure …

Over 13 % of women in the United States will get breast cancer in their lifetimes. In May 2021, my wife Laurie, found she had a cancerous tumor in her left breast. While radiation therapy does play a crucial role in treating breast cancer, it can cause incidental damage to …

“People like people like themselves or people they would like to be like.” Author unknown  In 1985, I attended a twenty day communications and therapy workshop in Houston . The course was spread over ten weekends and on the first day we spent a few hours on “Rapport”.The definition of …

In 1988, I attended  a five-day advanced Ericksonian hypnosis workshop in New Orleans. One morning we were asked to get into groups of three and to use both hands on the body of the client to push up and down to match the client’s breathing. I ended up with a group …

Whitney Houston’s song, “The Greatest Love of All” was a big hit during the 1980s. The song basically said that to love yourself was the greatest love of all. Unfortunately Whitney was never able to feel this love for herself and died from an overdose of drugs trying to escape …

Have you ever asked yourself that question? Most people have not and the answer to that question has a great impact upon relationships. My wife, Laurie, introduced me to a best selling book called “The 5 Languages of Love” by Gary Chapman. This book opened my eyes to the evidences that …

Tom Stone started using this very effective therapy modality that he calls,  “ The In Technique ” over twenty years ago on painful emotions (PTSD, grief, anxiety, etc). I have used it for over ten years. Tom and I both believe that when we were infants we learned to avoid …

This procedure when used can desensitized any emotional feeling. EMDR has been around for over thirty years. EMDR and EMI were most likely discovered around the same time by Francine Shapiro and Connirae Andreas. Both noticed people’s eyes movements when they were doing the NLP Trauma/Phobia Cure. I believe EMDR …

I started using the Eye Movement Integration procedure (EMI) around 1991. It is a brief therapy technique that is effective in treating acute and post-traumatic stress, but also phobias, the symptoms associated with addictions and negative or self-limiting thoughts. EMI is a neuro-therapeutic method for accessing and integrating traumatic memories …

The Dynamic Spin process can help you release your negative thought patterns, physical pain, and other mind-body issues in a matter of minutes! Steve Andreas gives a 4 minute demonstration of the Spin Procedure on anxiety: Be sure to watch the video and follow the instructions by first working on …

I have found this procedure to be a very effective cure for PTSD traumatic flashbacks. It also works well on simple phobias and visual intrusive memories. This procedure was originally called, “The Fast Phobia Cure” in the late 1970s, then in the 1980s it was called “The NLP Trauma/Phobia Cure”, …

Some of us have an insistent internal voice going nonstop and some of us have very little internal dialogue. I am going to show you how to improve yours. First a story. In 1986 I facilitated a class for my employer called, “Interpersonal Behavior”. On the third day of the …

Was it a big or small pink elephant with white spots? Maybe you have read or know that computers and human brains can not do negations. Computer programmers definitely are unable to do programming  by using “don’t or do nots”. Programming language is about telling  “what to do” rather than …

Are people at any given moment in time doing their best? Maybe they are ! Have you ever been so angry that you did or said something that you regretted five minutes later? At the time that you said or did what you regretted five minutes later, that was the …

The title is true. First I have to explain the two (2) most important perceptual positions in which we experience the world. 1st Position: being in our body, seeing what we see now/or what we saw then through our own eyes, hearing what we hear through our ears, and feeling …

My language patterns are going to be very unusual in this post. Most likely you have never heard/seen anyone write this way. It might be helpful to have a pen and paper to write down the location of these “identity parts”. When we are learning something new, it can be …

This question that you are always asking yourself will determines how successful you will be as you move through life. This most important question you are always asking yourself is usually outside of your conscious awareness.This question you are always asking yourself is called the “Virtual Question”. From my experience …

If you have a bad memory that has become a habitual distraction in your thinking this (2) two minute audio will make a difference. The difference will be you will be able to experience this memory in a different way. This visual memory will change in its emotional intensity and …

That three letter word is “try”. I mean using it “to attempt to do something”. The word “try” is a very powerful word to many people’s unconscious minds. The word “try” means fail. That is where the saying comes from: “try and try again until you succeed”. Listen to the …

And here’s why – “The Wizard of Oz” has probably been seen by almost every adult over forty years old in the western world. It was produced in 1939, has shown on TV since the 1980’s, and everyone remembers “the yellow brick road”. It was made to be a musical …