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There are two (2) videos on this post : A 6-minute overview video and the actual interview with Jay. This is a four-year follow up interview I recorded in 1999. We revisited Jay’s remarkable recovery journey after he had suffered from a severe car accident on August 1, 1995. First …

Most people think healing old emotional pain has to be complicated. All of the posts on my blog are uncomplicated. They are all based on a fairly new biological science called “memory reconsolidation”. This is a 6-minute video overview:   Our brain has a built-in mechanism for permanently rewriting the …

“Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me you built a time machine?” “Back to the Future.” It is built on a simple but powerful principle: Go to before the trauma – establish resources – and then observe the trauma from the future perspective, not from inside the original event. …

There are  three (3) recordings on this post . First is a 5-minute overview, the actual session, and then a 2-year follow up:   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 …

After In 2010, a 40-year-old woman from New Zealand—one of my “Imperative Self Analysis” clients—cleared her brain fog in a single 30-minute online session. With her permission, I recorded the session and have included it in this post. There are two (2) audio recordings on this post. Both are 7-minutes …

“Magic and miracles are simply the unexplained – until understanding turns them into knowledge without taking away their wonder.”  Welcome to ClintMatheny.com: A Therapist’s Toolbox for Real Emotional Change Most therapy is coping, not healing – here’s the difference. In November 2024, I began adding short Google LM Notebook “Deep …

This is a 15 – minute “Deep Dive” audio on a really deep subject:   One of the many avocations I’ve had over my 80 years was serving as the assistant funeral home director at Kilpatrick’s Funeral Homes in West Monroe, Louisiana, in 1966. Amidst the heavy silence of grieving …

  On May 30, 1972, at Greater Southwest Airport, I watch a devastating aircraft crash of a DC-9. This is a 13-minute “Deep Dive” audio that is worth your time:   The day before, I had spent more than three hours flying with the three pilots involved – an experience …

    Is seeing (really) believing? This is a 5 – minute overview video on how a girl healed her lazy eye and recovered her vision in her eye. There are also videos below of the actual session and 13- year follow-up.   As therapists, we hold the extraordinary capacity …

Coping Isn’t the Goal. Healing Is. If your therapy sessions focus only on “talk therapy” (CBT), you’re limiting the potential for deep, lasting transformation. All effective therapy modalities incorporate memory reconsolidation into their processes. The best therapeutic approaches don’t just manage behaviors or regulate emotions—they dissolve the emotional charge linked …

This 6-minute video will provide background on RTM (trademarked) and why RTM should be one of the number one VA “Evidence Based” therapy for PTSD Flashbacks and Intrusive memories:   In the realm of mental health interventions, there exists a remarkable procedure that has consistently demonstrated its efficacy: the Reconsolidation …

When people hear “evidence‑based therapy,” they assume it means: “This is the treatment proven to work best.” But more often, it means: “This is the treatment someone could afford to study.” This is a 15 – minute “Deep Dive” audio: This is a 6  – minute video overview on this …

“If you’re still breathing, the story isn’t over – and you don’t owe your suffering a sequel.” This is a 5-minute overview video:   This is a 15 – minute “Deep Dive”:     A trauma is not an experience. It is an emotional response to an experience. A trauma …

WARNING: This Is About Sexual Abuse  Many therapists carry invisible histories—wounds that shaped not only their empathy but their calling. I’m no exception. My journey into healing began long before I ever sat across from a client. This 8-minute Google overview video shares my journey of uncovering and healing a …

This 6-minute video tells the story of a woman who resolved 30 years of clinical depression in a single session – without medication, without electric shock treatment, or without years of talk therapy. The method? Clean Language, a therapeutic approach rooted in memory reconsolidation. In addition, below are two (3) …

This is my second posting with follow ups on healing “Depression” with “Clean Language”. This is 5-minute “Video Summary” on a 2006 session that cured my client’s depression : The 16-year follow-up audio interview is below. The first posting was using Clean Language on Metaphors to heal depression (see the …

This is a 6-minute video summary of this very easy to learn powerful technique called “FreeSpotting: The 13th century poet Rumi wrote, “the cure for pain is in the pain”. Amidst the myriad of complex therapies and interventions, a revolutionary technique stands out for its simplicity and profound impact: FreeSpotting. …

This “Reconsolidation” method session on depression took place in 1985. There are two other post on this blog dealing with depression using two different methods: https://clintmatheny.com/healing-major-depression/ &  healing-depression-disassociation-using-clean-language-16-year-follow-up/ This is a 7-minute video overview of this story:   A 28 year old man I will call “Bill” came to see …

Caution!: Only listen to the audios below in a safe place Shame isn’t who you are – it’s a past-based emotional learning that keeps your nervous system stuck in one moment in time. In this 10-minute self-directed process, using memory reconsolidation, you’ll go to the day before the shame event …

Why Doing Non-Content Psychotherapy is Healthy for the Therapist This is a 6- minute video overview on how to avoid burnout in the psychotherapy profession :   Psychotherapy, at its core, is about guiding clients through their emotional and psychological landscapes. Traditionally, therapists delve into the content of their clients’ …

Ever feel stuck in a behavior you wish you could change? What if the key to change wasn’t willpower, but a shift in identity. This post walks you through the amazing “Swish Pattern,” a fast way to retrain your brain and update who you believe yourself to be. Bonus Support …

  I help people discover the emotional autopilot their brain created in childhood – and update it so their emotional life finally changes. Almost every emotional problem is driven by an unconscious childhood command – Do, Be, or Get — that shapes your perception, reactions, identity, and behaviors until it …

Most political commentary tries to explain behavior through ideology, personality, or strategy. But another lens often explains human behavior more clearly: the Imperative Self Model: using-imperative-self-analysis/ This is a 7-minute video overview:   This is a 19-minute “Deep Dive”:     The Imperative Self Model describes the emotional operating system …

Introduction: The Hidden Driver of Your Life- The Needle in the Haystack that makes the difference of the difference: This is a 6- minute video overview:   This a “Deep Dive” 19-minute “Deep Dive” audio:   Most of us believe our personality – that familiar set of traits we call …

“The cure for pain is in the pain.” Rumi This brief 6-minute video shares my perspective on the myth of addiction—and offers a path toward healing that challenges conventional thinking:   When I was 23-years old, I asked my 48-year old father that hadn’t had a drink of alcohol for …

This is a 6 minute summary video:   Matthew Perry, a famous actor who starred in the TV sitcom “Friends”, had a history of drug and alcohol abuse. He spent over nine (9) million dollars and half of his life in and out of treatment or sober-living centers, had 14 …

This article discusses a highly successful method for treating PTSD, in existence since 1980. This is a 7- minute video:   It has only recently received funding for research to assess its efficacy and potentially recognize it as an “Evidence-Based Practice.” Over the past 44 years, this technique has been …

I have been using “Clean Language” interventions that were developed by David Grove and co-developer Cei Davies Linn for over thirty- one years. Unfortunately, this very eloquent modality has not received the attention it deserves in the therapy community. This might be helpful:  what-is-clean-language-therapy/ In 1994, Nancy was my first …

My Journey with Clean Language Therapy This is a 7-minute  video overview:   In 1993, I had the privilege of learning “Clean Language” from David Grove, a therapist from New Zealand. This innovative approach, known as “Clean Language Therapy,” quickly proved itself to be a powerful method for helping clients …

Check out the 5-minute video which explores the emotional state of “Peace” from my writings below:   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 …

This is a 5-minute video summary of curing a women’s panic attacks that were misdiagnosed as asthma attacks:   This intervention shows the power of “Clean Language Therapy” by healing a middle-aged woman’s panic attacks in a single 25-minute recorded therapy session. https://clintmatheny.com/what-is-clean-language-therapy/ Stress may trigger asthma or exacerbate the …

Most therapists have worked with adult clients that were amnesic to certain parts of their past that were caused by childhood traumas. Have you ever worked with a person that was totally amnesic to their identity? This condition is also called, “Retrograde Dissociative Amnesia or Psychogenic Amnesia”. This post is …

This is a 6-minute video on why you voted as you did in the 2024 election: “Sorting for Self” vs. “Sorting for Others” has offered me valuable insights into how individuals process information, make decisions, or and relate to the world around them. After reading this post, you will become …

For over forty years I have worked with hundreds of people to eliminate their fear of flying. More than likely if you are reading this post, you can not imagine being relaxed in a seat on an airliner. You are not alone and you are putting yourself under unnecessary stress. …

I recommend you read this post first: https://clintmatheny.com/silent-skies-unmasking-amarillos-hidden-secrets/ This is a 6-minute unbelievable  “Video Overview” with documentation, about four (4) very unusual emergencies :   I served as an FAA air traffic controller from 1967 to 2004, and I’ve worked as a psychotherapist since 1984. As the title suggests, I truly …

  Over the course of my 80-year lifetime, I’ve recovered two deeply repressed traumatic memories. The first emerged from an event when I was just four years old: https://clintmatheny.com/my-childhood-repressed-trauma-how-clean-language-therapy-helped-me/ This story describes how the second repressed traumatic memory was triggered and resurfaced three decades after the event. I was an …

“In a healing journey, pain and emotions are like transient whispers of the heart; once mended, they often fade into the silent archives of our being.” Clint Matheny Since launching my “Fear of Flying” practice in 1985, primarily using what was then called the NLP Trauma/Phobia Cure, now recognized as …

Three and a half decades ago, a client approached me with a question: could she retrieve memories of her mother from before she was four years old? She had lost her mother to pneumonia at that tender age and retained no conscious recollection of her, save for the funeral. She …

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 …

“People like people like themselves or people they would like to be like.” Author unknown  This is a 5- minute video on rapport: 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 …

This is an 18 – minute “Deep Dive” in healing grief:   There is no universally agreed upon model for the stages of grief. Grief is a response to the loss of someone or something important. Before continuing, ask yourself this question if you are grieving the loss of a …

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 …

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, 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 and …