Mental Imagery

Mental imagery is used with adults and adolescents. It is useful in cases of anxiety, depression, physical illness, and insomnia, to name a few of the many conditions for which it is recommended.

The practice of mental imagery is a simple, immediate, and most effective way to bypass habitual thinking and correct self-defeating beliefs as well as beliefs about relationships with others.

Simple exercises of mental imaging include the activation of all the senses. Mental images are not only visual. They involve sensations and feelings. Some people are highly visual, whereas others experience body sensations when they imagine a transformative scene.

In Creative Encounters therapy, mental imaging is an adjunctive practice that is incorporated into dialogue and/or art therapy in order to instill a new sense about one’s life; a vision of the changes one chooses to make.

See, sense, feel, and know