ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 discusses a BioPsychoSocialSpiritual approach to treating psychological distress, where Heart Led Psychotherapy (HLP) can provide a spiritual informed therapy within this model. Using a BioPsychoSocialSpiritual approach, details are provided of how HLP can be used either as a standalone therapy or incorporated with other psychotherapies if required. In particular, one such psychotherapy that works very well in combination with HLP is the trauma-based therapy Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR). Details are provided about how HLP informed EMDR can utilise spiritually based interweaves if the EMDR processing becomes blocked, as well as enable multi-dimensional healing. The chapter concludes with a discussion on deciding when it is a good time to introduce clients to HLP during the therapeutic process and case studies are provided to illustrate how this can be achieved either during the assessment phase or once treatment has commenced.
