A therapy for the future

Sometimes, I feel we are just dipping our toes in the water, wondering what therapy could be. It is as if we are still in the middle ages of a revolution that may change how we see ourselves and the world around us.

When I try to step forward, I find myself with two contradictory limitations: attempts to make therapy more organised and scientific and attempts to divide it into cult-like microspheres.

I feel a tension between standardisation and plurality that stagnates my movement.

So, how can we overcome this paradigmatic tension?

I propose a new language for discussing psychotherapy and, therefore, communicating between approaches. At the same time, I propose a model that encourages personal creation and, thus, fragmentation. We are held by a system that invites us to be diverse.

I imagine a future where therapy is a creative practice with solid foundations to make it reliable in society and exciting at an individual level.

So, I see this project as a baby step towards something more significant that I still cannot fathom. My main attempt is to break the paradox I find myself in, hoping in this way, something new can emerge.

The project currently has two sides: CreaTherapy and CreaTheory. The first is a progressive web app that functions as a website with dynamic content. The second is where you stand now, a page with essays explaining my new perspective.

CreaTheory is divided into sections:

• Approach: where I reflect on the more abstract areas of the project.
• Profile: where I explain the profile system of CreaTherapy
• Practice: where I reflect on how to apply the ideas
• Growth: where I propose a model of persona/professional growth system

The sections are sometimes divided into groups; if you are in an essay and see on the nav, it will show you the group you are in.

CreaTherapy Web App is the other side of the project, and I would like to also give you an overview of it. The site has multiple tools you can only open if you are signed up. I created each to help you navigate a plural space of theory/practice so we do not get lost in the attempt.

The profile system aims to help you map your caring and learning as a process so you can save multiple entries for each and keep an eye on your changes. A personal style and disposition section separates your tradition's teachings from your care assumptions. It offers suggestions for styles and their correlated approaches to give you a field flavour (or an intensities map, as sometimes I think about it).

I have also created a system to track your progress of knowledge into therapy-relevant areas and a system to track your philosophical assumptions. Both aim to separate knowledge and philosophy from technique and tradition while giving you a map to keep track of your explorations.

This system aims to help ground our creative attempts. I invite you to create and embody your therapy because we only own something when participating in its creation. However, I also appreciate having a community of peers and traditions that maintain coherence and shared values.

I have added other sections to help you in your journey.

• A journal space to write about what you learned and an after-session question based on multiple traditions to help you reflect on your practice.
• A technique space to track the things that work for you. It also includes the option of sharing them with other site users.
• The Diver's space holds prompts for a guided creative process and a shadow entry to reflect on the things you may have left behind in your development.

This set of tools will hold a space only for you to grow and discover and, simultaneously, create a common language and community space so we can still dialogue and grow together.

The project aims to remove unnecessary fences and draw new paths to help delineate the land.

Please explore and write to me with your impressions.