Author: Clint Matheny

My Story This is a 6 – minute video overview of  my story: It was 1996, just past 5:15 a.m., and I was driving to work at the FAA Terminal Radar Approach Control Facility (TRACON) at Houston Intercontinental Airport. Air traffic control was my full- time job and psychotherapy was …

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 …

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 …

In their quest to alleviate suffering, medical doctors may have dulled the very instrument of healing: feeling itself. This is a 5-minute video overview:   For the past five decades, antidepressants SSRIs benzodiazepines, or stimulants like Adderal have been prescribed as frontline treatments for depression, anxiety, and trauma-related disorders to …

Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring has over a decade of experience as a board-certified psychiatrist and has previously served as a medical officer for the FDA. His expertise lies in a niche area of psychiatry, focusing on the side effects of psychiatric medications and strategies for their safe tapering. This is a …

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 and observe it from that position, which often triggers a rapid …

This is an 5- minute video :   As a therapist, our choices about treatment methods are often shaped not only by training and research, but by something deeper: lived experience and ethical grounding. I want to share two key reasons why I personally do not use Prolonged Exposure Therapy …

Have you ever wondered how the “DSM” (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) to be? This is a must watch or listen to for mental health workers! This is a 5-minute intro video on a very important subject:     James Davies, PhD has been vocal about his concerns …

This 6-minute video shares how my Uncle Red found healing from 53 years of PTSD during a walk we took together in 1998:   Before the term Memory Reconsolidation became a term, I unknowingly interrupted my uncle’s PTSD pattern that change both his and aunt’s life. My uncle, then 83 …

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’ …

This is a 6-minute video overview of this event:   Recently, I was contemplating my 40 + years as a therapist, pondering the true impact of my work. Reflecting on the past, I recalled numerous clients who considered suicide, whom I’ve supported through their darkest times. Did my other client …

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 is brought into awareness and rewritten. That’s the Imperative Self. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it. This 6-minute video introduces …

For over 35 years, Imperative Self Analysis (ISA) has been one of my most powerful therapeutic tools: how-to-break-free-from-your-emotional-autopilot-using-imperative-self-analysis/ This is a 7 – minute video overview into the most life changing therapeutic modality you probably have never heard of: This is a 18 – minute “Deep Dive Audio”:   In …

“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 …

What Came First: The Chicken or the Egg of Depression? A Chemical Imbalance or Trauma? This is a 6-minute “Deep Dive Video”:   The “chicken or the egg” dilemma is a classic question that highlights the cyclical nature of cause and effect. Applied to mental health, the question becomes: is …

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 …

“Clean Language” is a distinctive approach in therapy that empowers the client by placing their own words and metaphors at the heart of the conversation. The power of Clean Language lies in its client-centered methodology. Therapists practicing Clean Language have to be meticulously attentive to the client’s language, using it as …

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 …

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 …

This is a 5-minute video overview of the negative placebo effect:   Doctors, in their unique role, possess the ability to cast spells—not with wands, but with words. Their dialogue, delivered in the clinical sanctity of examination rooms, wields immense power. Patients, in their most vulnerable state, hang on every …

“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 …

Catherine Pearson of The NY Times, asked nearly a dozen experts in sex and intimacy for the advice they repeat again and again. For starters, they said, don’t get so hung up on how often you have, or want, sex. More: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/well/sex-therapy-questions.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb  

What if cruelty isn’t always monstrous, but simply a result of misaligned perspectives? This is a 6-minute video:   The question of what causes human evil—cruelty, indifference, and acts of harm—has haunted philosophers, mental health workers, and theologians for centuries. We’ve blamed ideology, trauma, biology, and social conditions. But one …

Perceptual positions are the ways we perceive ourselves and others in any situation. There are three main perceptual positions: self, other, and observer. Each position has its own advantages and disadvantages, but they can also be misaligned or distorted, leading to confusion, conflict, or dissatisfaction. This is a 14-minute “Deep …

This is a 6 minute Video on “The Free Will Illusion & What Would Jesus Do?”:   Many of us like to believe we’re entirely in control of our actions—rational agents, freely choosing right from wrong. But what if much of what we do is governed by unseen forces—our biology, …

I am now 80 years old. I sent this email in 2020, to my teenage grandkids: This is a 6-minute video overview of my email:   “The most important part is in the next-to-last paragraph. I started thinking about the jobs I’ve had from age 5 to 75. I’d never …

Ever feel like you’re doing all the right things—therapy, journaling, self-help—but still stuck in emotional loops you can’t name?—read on or watch this 6-minute video:   You’re running on an emotional autopilot you can’t see, the one that’s been steering your life since childhood. Until you uncover it, you’ll keep …