The future of psychotherapy? Possibly…

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‘BWRT®’ stands for ‘BrainWorking Recursive Therapy®’, a modern model of psychology and psychotherapy created by UK professional therapist, Terence Watts, MCGI. It uses a totally logical, practical and down-to-earth working method in which it’s not necessary for you to talk about anything you would rather not discuss – the practitioner only needs to know how you feel and how you would prefer to feel instead. BWRT® is unlike any other therapy you might have heard of or read about, using the latest discoveries in neuroscience coupled with your own unique brain processes to help you get better. Only Certified Practitioners have been trained to deliver BWRT® and all have to adhere to a strict ethical code. Find out more at https://www.bwrt.org

Testimonials

Forever Grateful

When I arrived at my first session I was in a very dark place, but with his dedication and commitment, Stu has helped me to get to a place in my life I never thought possible – to feel joy and happiness, to feel confident and in control. A very much happier version of my former self.
Thank you for everything Stu.  You have helped me more than I could have ever imagined, and I am forever grateful

S

Useful and Productive!

I found therapy with Stuart to be very useful and productive. I always looked forward to my sessions. I felt so much better in myself after each session and I noticed, as did others, a big difference in me since beginning sessions.
Stuart’s honest and pragmatic approach has been great in helping me understand how and why I feel the way I do. The sessions helped me to unravel my thoughts and feelings, and BWRT was incredibly effective in dealing with feelings I previously thought I would always have and would have to live with. I would encourage anyone who needs support to work with Stuart. Thank you so much.
DT

Very Grateful

Anxiety issues can be solved if the right words are found. Stuart has the ability to find those right words. I am very grateful to him, he has really helped me.

LR

Would recommend to anyone

“I have suffered with severe claustrophobia since childhood and when I was told by my GP I had to go for a CT scan, I was petrified. The last time I had one I had a full panic attack. After one session with Stuart using BWRT I was able to attend the scan and felt completely calm and relaxed. I was amazed, and so grateful. I would recommend BWRT to anyone”

MH

Panic Free

I was struggling with daily panic attacks and severe anxiety. Things were very dark and I was unsure if I was ever going to recover and stop being so afraid. However, I can now say that I have been panic free for a month. Stuart guided me through this dark period in my life. After each session with Stuart I was noticeably better, even after the first session I knew it was just a matter of time until I got to a healthy place again.

Stuart is very calm, knowledgeable and healing. Without him I would not be able to leave the house and face some of the things I have faced recently.

I have gone from daily panic attacks and being constantly afraid in my home to starting a new job, moving to a new city/home, public speaking and having the confidence to pitch a new business venture to investors. This is all in the space of a few months.

Thank you Stuart, I couldn’t thank you enough. I will take away and use the techniques you have taught me for the rest of my life.

BL

Thank you for giving me my life back!

I’d never heard of BWRT therapy, so I did some reading , I read reviews and thought this sounded interesting and wanted to give it a try. After speaking to Stuart we set up the 1st appointment. After a couple of sessions and I felt so different in myself, it’s hard to explain but I knew something had changed. I started feeling that I could look forward to things, and that I wanted to go places, which a few months back those thoughts would never have entered my head as I was happy never to go anywhere ever again . I’m now feeling very positive about the future and hopefully will start enjoying myself again as I used to.
My daughter’s wedding day has come and gone and what a brilliant day it was from start to finish. I was absolutely happy to have enjoyed every single minute of it. There’s no doubt in my mind things would have been totally different if I hadn’t had done the BWRT therapy; I would have got through it because I had to, but I know that I’d have probably been feeling rubbish for most of the day.
BWRT the best thing I did, so thank you Stuart for giving me my life back.

KJ

Incredible

“I suffered with anxiety and fear when motorway driving for 25 years. In the last 5 years it has been impossible for me to do. After one BWRT session with Stuart, I was able to return to driving on the motorway with ease. I still find this incredible, but it seems like a permenant change. See you on the m5 👍🏻 Thank you Stuart”

MB

Invaluable

Stuart’s help was invaluable and really helped me to understand the areas of my life that I was struggling with. I feet comfortable about sharing issues that I was having, and I always felt that I was in a safe space.
BWRT was completely new to me and whilst it seemed too good to be true when we began, it became a really important and useful experience. Thank you!

BY

Highly recommended

I was sceptical that anything could help me with my anxiety because I have had it for so long. Stuart’s approach made me feel safe and relaxed and after only three sessions with him using BWRT I can honestly say that I feel totally different. I no longer feel anxiety when I wake up, I feel more confident in social situations and like I have a new lease of life. I am so grateful I found Stuart and that he helped me with BWRT. I would recommend him to anyone who has any problems they are struggling with.

LT

Fear of needles

I had a complete fear of injections or having blood taken, which I have had since my teens. I wanted to have my Covid jabs but I was simply unable to consider going because of my intense fear. It wasn’t just the injection, but the lead up and being in the room – I was convinced I would pass out. Stuart spent some time working with me so that I was able to get some clarity on things, which identified other issues I hadn’t considered. We worked through these using BWRT and then the needle phobia. I booked myself in for my Covid jab the next week, and I an delighted to say I actually found myself looking forward to it! I turned up, had the jab, and went home without any anxiety at all. I remain completely amazed by this and very thankful. I have recommended Stuart to my friends and family. Thank you.

WB

Life Changing

Stu helped me to work through a very stressful period of my life in an honest, compassionate and non-judgemental way. I now feel empowered to navigate my future as a stronger and happier person. My sessions with Stu have been nothing short of life-changing. Thanks for everything. 

ES

Anxiety reduced

I was going to reply to you, and just wanted to wait a little bit before doing so to try and gauge accurately how I feel now after a week and a bit. It’s hard to know to start with, as when you carry around something like that every day for 5 years or so, it becomes part of you. So to start off with, I would think the same thoughts because it’s almost built-in. I noticed however that when I did, the reaction to those thoughts was less intense, and so they tend to pass quicker. The result of that is that now I don’t have them as frequently. That’s brilliant as I now feel so much better, but it also shows that given more time they should be even less frequent. What I like now is how any thoughts of anxiety seem to hold less importance.
PS

Highly recommended

“As someone who has tried previous counselling services before, Stuart’s approach has by far been the best. Through our sessions I’ve become aware of the source/s behind my issues and able to resolve them. Stuart is very professional, always creating a non judgemental and comfortable space for us to talk. I would highly recommended his service to anyone needing it.”

SJ

Amazing!

“I’ve had various different types of therapy over the years in an attempt to solve my debilitating lack of self-esteem.  I didn’t believe BWRT could be as fast and effective as the description seemed to suggest. How wrong I was!  Only 1 day after my second session I felt that I had completely changed – like I had discovered myself for the first time in 40 years. I’m still amazed that BWRT could be so effective, but it has been for me.  I am so grateful that I am now, finally, able to live up to my potential. Thank you Stu.”

KT

Forever Grateful

Stuart has helped me tremendously! I was in a very low place when I picked up the phone to him and now a few months on I am on a very different path. He really listened to me and made me feel very comfortable and able to open up. I had several different issues going to deal with but that didn’t phase Stuart at all… I would absolutely recommend Stuart and will always be forever grateful ☺️

HT

I cant thank you enough

“Lately I’ve been a lot happier, and haven’t been panicking or even feeling anxious. I’ve also been sleeping very well (which is SO amazing) and I actually feel like I am living again. Thank you for all your help with the BWRT sessions as I can now look forward to my future. I don’t know how, but you have honestly changed my life. It feels like I am no longer dragging the past around with me and I can get on with the life I want – just like the one I imagined in our sessions. I owe you the world and work is going so well they are like family to me. I cant thank you enough.”

SD

Quality of Life Improved

Stuart handled my issues with a calm, professional attitude. After one session of BWRT I was relieved of many years of severe struggles with an eating disorder, also this method swiftly solved several of my behaviour problems. My quality of life has been improved by the counselling sessions I have received. Thank you.

NK

Changed my life

Stuart is very compassionate and nonjudgmental and I would recommend his therapeutic services to anyone. His individualised and blended approach using BWRT is very effective and really has changed my life. I have had many therapies in the past but Stuart helped me to truly break free from my past and has empowered me with knowledge and techniques to help me in my day to day life.

NL

Outstanding

“Stuart is an outstanding counsellor. He has helped me process some very confusing and difficult emotions and psychological issues deploying a multi-disciplinary approach to mental health. Stuart is very empathetic and has enabled me to trust him with some very tricky problems and this has helped me to develop a greater clarity of self understanding. With Stuart’s help I have found solutions and clarity where I had previously been weighed down by bottled up difficulties and confusion.”

BK

Thank You

I was really struggling with health anxiety. Stuart is very easy to talk to, no ‘psycho-babble’ and helped me to get to the core of my worries very quickly. He managed to help me extract my innermost hidden emotional feelings and turn them into logical rational feelings after a few sessions, bringing me huge relief.
I have, and will continue to recommend Stuart.  Thank you

CS

Thank you

Following the immense shock and feeling very distraught at the sudden death of my husband I was recommended to you by someone who had previously lost her partner. After much consideration, and following many days and nights of crying with things continually going round and round in my head, I decided to make an appointment.
The help and understanding you gave me in your particular method of counselling known as BWRT has helped me considerably in a short space of time. Thank you Stuart .

MG

Professional

Stuart was professional, and was very clear and transparent in what the plan for therapy was. He was polite and respectful and provided a safe space. He provided background theory when I asked, which made me feel a lot more secure in the science of therapy. And it was very effective. Thanks Stuart

BH

BWRT is amazing!

My phobias were creating so much anxiety in my daily life, Stuart really helped me work through those fears. I feel great, the BWRT therapy is amazing and really worked for me. I would definitely recommend it to anyone suffering with phobias.

EH

A great outcome

Stuart helped me to overcome my anxiety that had been causing me problems for years. I would struggle with it on a daily basis. He worked with me and using BWRT and helped me to overcome it so that now my thoughts of anxiety hold far less importance, and so the thoughts occur less frequently. It’s a great outcome and I’m so happy that I was paired with Stuart so that he could help me get my life back the way I wanted. Thanks Stuart.

BH

A grateful thank you!

A grateful thank you Stuart.

I received very successful bereavement counselling and BWRT with Stuart’s help. Following the death of my brother, father and a close friend in a short space of time, I found myself struggling to move forward with my life and was looking for a different way of feeling and thinking about things.  Stuart provided a non-judgmental safe space, where I always felt comfortable and found talking with Stuart was easily achieved. I am so pleased that I am now able to move forward into the future.

SE

Extremely Grateful

Stuart has helped me to unlock various issues from my past which have affected my well being. I am confident that his methods have not only allowed me to face them with a renewed and positive approach but have instilled a new way forward for me which doesn’t involve the fears that have held me back for so long.
For this I am extremely grateful.

P
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The science behind BWRT… a quick overview.

The brainstem and cerebellum together form the lizard brain that evolved in our earliest ancestors around 575 million years ago. Its purpose was to trigger action on any threat to survival. It was purely instinctive with no capacity for thought or reason. If something was a threat, it would always be a threat and in those days that was a fact.

The next evolutionary development was the paleomammalian complex that appeared in the first tiny mammals, with a much more sophisticated limbic system. The lizard brain had already existed for around 425 million years by then, and this new part didn’t replace it – it was added ‘on top’ of it. It’s much more complex but still has no conscious awareness or ability for thought.  

It’s probable that the latest version of our modern brain, the neomammalian complex, with all its conscious thinking and reasoning power appeared only about 300,000 years ago, on top of the earlier structure. It truly is an amazing organ… but it is still motivated by that lizard brain, which contains about 85% of the total nerve pathways in the entire brain! 

And here’s the science. Thoughts and impulses are bioelectric and travel slowly in the brain, so do not instantly appear everywhere at the same time. If the lizard brain encounters something that was dangerous once it sends a ‘danger’ code to the Amygdala which then generates an emotional response felt in various degrees of anxiety. 

But it takes time to get through all those neural pathways in the lizard brain and paleomammalian  complex to the conscious emotional brain… getting on for half-a-second in fact. And even if the threat is not valid (and there are hundreds of reasons why that might be the case) the reaction is already under way and cannot be consciously overridden. 

And that’s where BWRT comes in. It uses the lizard brain’s own processes to stop the impulse in its tracks long enough for the client to replace it with whatever they prefer before it reaches the amygdala. It doesn’t matter what the original trigger was – BWRT doesn’t need it. It works, it’s fast, and it lasts.

Fast and effective therapy

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BWRT® was developed in 2011 by Terence Watts and is becoming ever more popular in both the UK and around the world because of its effectiveness and speed in treating a wide range of problems.

With BWRT®, the client doesn’t have to share anything personal with the therapist, something which might put them off speaking to a more traditional therapist. As long as they can identify how they are feeling about their problems, and how they would prefer to feel, BWRT® can be extremely and quickly effective.

BWRT® is a rapid form of therapy. Most problems are resolved within a single session and even complex issues are usually resolved in 4 or 5 sessions. This can have a significant advantage over other forms of therapy which can take months or even years to achieve similar results.

Try Brain Working Recursive Therapy and worry less!

This is an article from TopSante magazine, January 4th 2019

BRWT – Brain Working Recursive Therapy – is a groundbreaking, but entirely natural, new therapy that helps you rewire your thoughts. Cut down on anxiety and phobias and worry less with these practical tips.

Living with fears or uncomfortable feelings – whether they’re about spiders or flying, public speaking or even leaving the house – can mean you’re not living your best life. There are trusted methods to tackle these problems, including cognitive behavioural, humanistic, and mindful therapies, which fall within the bracket of ‘talking therapies’, invented by Freud more than 100 years ago.

But what if we told you that after all this time there’s a new treatment in town, suitable for most people, for most issues, backed by practitioners and patients across the globe? Brain Working Recursive Therapy (BWRT) is a one-to-one talking therapy that gives you the tools to reprogram your emotional or habitual responses, through the power of your thought alone. The best thing is, this rewiring can be so effective that you may only need one session. Sounds too good to be true? Let’s meet the man behind it…

What is BWRT?

BWRT was created by Terence Watt, a therapist for more than 30 years, with more than 35,000 session hours under his belt. ‘After working with all different kinds of people for years, I became increasingly fascinated by the way the mind works,’ says Terence. ‘I studied hypnotherapy, as well as CBT and EFT (emotional freedom technique), among other therapies, but always thought they were missing something. And to really hardwire a new way of thinking, most therapies require repeated sessions and activities that the patient needs to keep doing for them to be effective.’

Your brain is an amazing thing, computing a stream of input from all your senses, while referencing memories, and automatically making decisions as you go about your day, trying to make sense of everything it hears and sees. ‘The more I practised and studied, the more I realised there’s no such thing as free will in the typical sense. For many of your thoughts, behaviours and habits, there’s a response to a situation or emotion formed before you even realise it,’ says Terence.

How does Brain Working Recursive Therapy work?

BWRT enables you create a different neural pathway response – in other words a different mental reaction – before you react to something. ‘The change can be so natural that the client doesn’t even notice the subtle switch,’ says Terence.

It can be effective in treating pretty much anything, from an uncomfortable feeling, emotion or habit, right up to an intense phobia, post traumatic stress disorder, and even addictive behaviour.

Your lizard brain controls ‘fight or flight’

These automatic responses come from your limbic cortex, otherwise known as your ‘lizard brain’, because way back at the start of evolution it was one of the first parts of the brain to form.

‘It controls things that don’t require conscious thought, such as breathing, perspiration, organ function and the hormone system,’ says Terence. ‘It also controls your fight-or-flight mode, which is the physical and emotional response you feel when confronted with something your brain perceives as stressful or dangerous.’ This means some negative, automatic actions or reactions – such as a fear of flying, or reaching for a sugary snack if you feel low – can stem from misinterpreted or outdated information that your brain has stored from a past situation. ‘And it doesn’t have to be the distant past either,’ says Terence. ‘As your situation changes in life – your kids move away, you retire, or your partner does, or it could be something bigger like a health change or the menopause – it can subconsciously affect you.’

You might find yourself suddenly devoid of a plan, or lacking focus or confidence. Your lizard brain learns patterns associated with these feelings, such as a release of the stress hormone cortisol and you feeling the jitters when you go to sign up for that new fitness class. It will automatically continue that reaction each time the issue comes up, without you even stopping to realise that’s what is going on.

‘But the amazing thing is, your lizard brain doesn’t differentiate between reality and imagination, so this reaction can be “recorded over”,’ says Terence.

What happens in a BWRT session?

If you’ve had any kind of counseling or therapy, you’ll know it can sometimes be frustrating, awkward, or even traumatic, as your brain mulls over problems, past and present. But with Brain Working Recursive Therapy, you don’t even need to discuss the cause or root of the problem, making the concept of treating it feel a lot more comfortable.

In a BWRT session, which usually takes around an hour, the therapist will ask you to target the thing you don’t like about how you’re behaving and feeling, and focus on how you’d rather be.

Essentially you freeze the response before it goes past your lizard brain – rather than letting the emotion or action form. This is how it differs from therapies such as CBT, which looks to change your response or reaction once the troubling emotion has already formed.

Acting at this crucial, innate position in your brain, BWRT plants more empowering – but still realistic – beliefs into your subconscious, replacing those older fears or insecurities. ‘It takes that false, scared or limited personality away, and trades it with who you really want to be,’ says Terence. ‘In essence it’s a natural and practical form of therapy, and the best thing is, the change comes completely from within you.’

A BWRT exercise to try

If you need a quick fix for unpleasant feelings, Terence recommends this exercise. While it’s not as effective as a full session, it is a useful tool, helping you to ‘recorded over’ automatic reactions if you get a sudden attack of negative thoughts.

Close your eyes and imagine a clock face – it must be an analogue clock with an hour hand, a minute hand and a second hand. Make it really vivid. Think about the colour of the hands and the face and if there are numerals or markers. The clock is ticking and you can see the second hand moving.

Next, send your mind to that troublesome thought and make that image as detailed as you possibly can. When it is as vivid as you can make it, zoom in quickly to what seems to be the most important part of it – the real nub of the situation.

Now freeze that memory solid. Make it as though it’s a 3D model frozen in time, in which you can move, but nothing else can. Be inside it looking out, rather than outside it looking in. Freeze it solid!

Picture the clock face again and this time, notice that the clock has stopped – the second hand isn’t moving by even the tiniest amount. Really focus on that clock that has stopped at that time. Absolutely stopped. And as soon as you’ve fully focussed on it, walk away.

As you walk past the clock in your mind, leave that frozen memory behind. It might not necessarily work every time but this should help to reprogram your response to that situation or feeling in future.

BWRT case study: ‘A couple of sessions was all it took’

When Julie Watts, 60, had a crisis of confidence, she decided to give BWRT a go – with life-changing results.

‘I adored being a professional dancer for 40 years, embracing all the glamour that came with it. I was also a dog trainer, as well as now being a company director, running training events – which is a great mix! I was always very upfront, happy to be out on the floor. So it came as a shock when I started having “wobbles” around four years ago, which I put down to the menopause. And it wasn’t just in front of an audience. In shops I’d experience random blushing, sweating, and anxiety. It was completely horrifying for me, I felt out of control of my own personality – stupid and unprofessional. It had an impact on how I acted, and even what I chose to wear.

‘My husband Terence developed BWRT therapy, but I must admit I hadn’t really taken on board just how effective it was. However, after a couple of sessions my situation was completely changed around.

‘The effectiveness of the therapy was particularly impressive as I’m not easily suggestible – I’d be considered a fairly resistant client.

‘But thanks to BWRT being “content free”, meaning you simply think of the problem rather than discuss it, I found it very doable and it made me much more receptive to it.’