22 REASONS and 22 METHODS for using PHOTO THERAPY in the work of a psychologist from Victoria Nazarevich

1. The use of pictures is a necessary condition for getting to know the client’s inner world
* Reception 1 “Find a picture of your inner world, tell about it and about yourself”

2. Pictures show and tell with the help of metaphorical images the story of the motives and desires of the client.
* Reception 2 “Find a picture of your desires”

3. Metaphorical and projective pictures provide the psychologist with the opportunity for non-verbal dialogue with a non-speaking client.
* Trick 3 “Tell me the problem through pictures”

4. The use of pictures and metaphorical cards facilitates the safe interaction of the psychologist with various forms of psychological protection of the client.
* Technique 4 “Find a picture that will help us understand the purpose of your visit”

5. Maps provide a quick way to get to the client’s problem.
*Trick5 “Find a picture that symbolizes your problem”

6. Easy and casual photo images and maps help
get an image of projection on any psychological phenomenon relevant to the client.
* Reception 6 “Find a picture that reminds you of this …”

7. Compile a repertoire of the problem and request with which the client came to the consultative process.
* Reception 7 “Choose pictures that comprehensively reflect your problem?”

8. The phototherapeutic tool helps to quickly search for a relevant topic to obtain resource states
* Reception 8 “Find a picture that will bring you joy”

9. Pictures help to better navigate the needs of the future client in the prism of traumatic experiences.
* Reception 9 “Create an image of your future from pictures and maps”

10. Phototherapy helps to quickly understand the client’s tactical and strategic goals in all areas of life.
* Reception 10 “Make a plan of your life for 5 years from pictures”

11. Reflective viewing of pictures helps to instantly relieve the symptoms of physiological stress and negative tension at the bodily level.
* Reception 11 “Find pictures that instantly harmonize you and your bodily manifestations of tension”

12. Combinations of different types of maps, pictures and photographs provide an opportunity to understand the client’s interpersonal interactions with society and internal space.
* Reception 12 “Choose pictures for a gift to your loved ones and tell them why they will like them”

13. Photographs and pictures are a direct bridge connecting a person and his memories.
* Reception 13 “Find a picture of the main memory of your life”

14. Pictures and photographs provide a space for the client to get to know their hidden capabilities.
* Reception 14 “Choose a picture that you would never choose”

15. The use of different thematic, verbal and semantic decks provides a play of meanings and a systemic psychological picture of the request.
* Tactic 15 “Find all the pictures that are related to improving your change process”

16. The search for ontogenetic causes of the problem greatly speeds up and helps the use of pictures in drawing up a variety of life lines for a client.
* Technique 16 “Make a picture of your life in its main stages using pictures”

17. Find secret, repressed messages and symbols of the unconscious in order to actualize them within the framework of the consultative process.
* Reception 17 “Find pictures that you do not understand that are related to the search for a solution to the problem”

18. Modeling a new reality perception system with the help of pictures provides the most environmentally friendly and non-directive approach to the client.
* Technique 18 “Create an image with pictures when the problem has disappeared”

19. Pictures help to quickly and efficiently create the necessary associative array to analyze the problem and find its solutions.
* Reception 19 “Give pictures of the association that first come to mind and help solve the problem”

20. Pictures will help you find inner conflict easily and playfully.
* Technique 20 “Find pictures that I do not accept because of my problem”

21. With the help of pictures, fantasy and imagination are perfectly effectively trained, and this, as you know, is the basis for a successful exit from any difficult life situation.
* Technique 21 “Come up with pictures of fabulous solutions to the problem”

22. With the help of pictures, images and maps, you can immerse yourself in the world of your images, imagining and expanding the space beyond them. This form of meditation through phototherapy expands the opportunity for creative self-healing.
* Reception 22 “Find a picture that you would like to go to and spend some time there”

© Victoria Nazarevich 2015