Coaching practices for Between Session Therapy Tool

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Between Session Therapy Tool, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I’ll have a breakthrough where I really feel the better version of my story, and then a few days later the old defeating account has quietly taken back over as if it never happened
• Last time a memory finally felt settled, but the week since stirred things up
• I’ve been doing the sessions but then diving straight back into a packed, loud day right afterward
• The session is over and I’m carrying all this raw, half-formed experience, and I just need to say it out loud to people who’ll witness it without analyzing me
• All day my attention goes straight to what went wrong

Practices that may help

1. Therapeutic Letters
   A therapist’s written letter to a client between sessions — documenting alternative-story gains before they fade.
   Narrative Therapy: Rewriting the Stories That Define You
2. Reevaluation at the Start of Each Session
   Begin every new EMDR session by checking whether last session’s gains held — and what emerged in between.
   EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
3. Support SSP integration with between-session regulation
   What happens between SSP sessions shapes whether the shifts the protocol initiates become durable.
   The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP): What It Is and What the Evidence Shows
4. Share in a small group sharing circle on the same day
   Narrate your experience to others in a structured, non-interpretive circle within hours of the session.
   Holotropic Breathwork, Made Practical
5. The Formula First-Session Task and Between-Session Noticing
   Assign between-session observation tasks that direct attention toward what’s already working.
   Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Building On What Works
6. Track SUDs across sessions to see your own progress
   Record distress ratings before and after each session so progress is visible and motivating.
   Counter-Conditioning and Systematic Desensitization
7. Debrief each session with a structured reflection
   Write a three-question debrief right after practice to convert experience into learning.
   Growth-Edge Training: Practicing at the Edge of Your Ability
8. Use a challenging beliefs worksheet to work a stuck point completely
   The CPT challenging beliefs worksheet is a structured, written process for examining one stuck point at a time.
   Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD
9. Track and communicate sensory sensitivity changes during SSP
   Monitoring sensory reactivity across sessions gives the clinician the data to pace the protocol safely.
   The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP): What It Is and What the Evidence Shows
10. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Building On What Works
    Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, directs attention to what already works — client strengths, past successes, and desired futures — rather than to analyzing problems. Meta-analyses report small-to-moderate positive effects across a range of presenting issues, with particular strength in behavioral problems and depression in adult populations.

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