Hilary Jacobs Hendel

Experiential work is therapeutic — healing and transformational — for many reasons.

Here are four:

Experiential work actively cultivates a mindful, non-judgmental, compassionate stance that helps a person become aware of his/her inner experience which changes the brain for the better.

Experiential work helps people get in touch with their core emotions (sadness, fear, anger, joy, excitement, sexual excitement and disgust) so patients come to know what they are feeling and learn how to use their emotions instead of being controlled by them.

Experiential work diminishes anxieties and other symptoms in predictable, reproducible ways, which is why it is considered healing-oriented as opposed to insight-oriented psychotherapy.

Experiential work teaches people to become their own therapist, giving them practical life skills to work with their emotions and the emotions of others in ways that are more constructive than they had before starting therapy.

https://medium.com/@hilaryjacobshendel/what-is-the-difference-between-conventional-talk-psychotherapy-and-experiential-psychotherapy-f4e683eacb10