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Play A Part Therapy

with Karen Dess

Play A Part Therapy

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.

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 SystemsEgo State TherapyGestalt 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

Book & Pay for sessions

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* To make a session booking, use the session drop-down to choose the length of session you’d like, then choose the date and time of your session, and then use the location drop-down to choose whether the session is via phone/online or in person. Then go to your appointments cart to complete your card payment. 

 Package dates are flexible. You can book in your first date here and subsequent dates with Karen when you’re ready.

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