Play a Part Therapy
with Karen Dess
Play A Part therapy combines the use of figurines and tarot cards to help uncover the hidden parts of your character and the unresolved stories of your life.
There are many possible versions of You
These parts are in everyone to some degree and in some combination, and usually combine to create a unique and multifaceted person.
Your inner child, your teenage self and your current age can all have a voice inside your mind. The different aspects of your life-force such as your spiritual self, your lower self and your ego can strive for attention. Then there can be the different roles that we can find ourselves playing in different circumstances or with different people – the Rebel, the Organiser, the Romantic, the Comic, the Martyr and so on.
What happens when the parts inside you don’t connect together? When, instead of supporting you in daily life, the parts seem like they are in conflict with each other?
These are the times when you will be unable to achieve what you want to despite your very best efforts. Perhaps you promise yourself that you will start exercising, but there’s a part of you that always somehow sabotages your efforts so that you end up staying on the couch. Or perhaps you know that you should be patient with your children, but despite your best attempts you find yourself getting angry with them in the same way that your mother used to get angry with you.
Sometimes these parts come from something that has happened in the past. Traumatic and triggering events can leave imprints on us that keep us suffering long after the events. Or perhaps it is from your upbringing, or inherited emotional patterns from parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents.
Let’s get to the roots with therapeutic tools that know your life, your soul and your psychology.
Play A Part Therapy uses figurines to play the parts of yourself
These parts are your different personality traits, or the characters in your story, or the members of your family tree.
They speak to you through the tarot cards to uncover what is really going on – what the core issues that affecting you have been, how they were created, and how these issues can be reconciled, comforted and released. Here, the hidden parts of your character and the unresolved stories of your life are given a voice.
Play A Part therapy combines elements of many different therapy methods that address working with parts, including Internal Family Systems, Ego State Therapy, Gestalt Therapy and Family Constellations.
What You Can Change
Play A Part therapy sets up a model of your operating systems for you to learn what beliefs you’ve been acting with and how to rework them. It can be used to shed light on a multitude of issues, and I have used it with clients to successfully work with all of the following:
Mistaken beliefs about childhood
Letting go of grief and shame
Debilitating phobias
Irrational fears
Distressing childhood experiences
Improving creativity
Healing historic abuse
Understanding family members
Removing blocks to finding love
Prices
Single 90 min session with recordings $220
Package of three 90 min sessions with recordings $660 (contact Karen directly)