Coaching practices for Imagery Rescripting Depression
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- There’s a painful scene I keep going over in my head, but always as a dry summary of what it meant
- There’s one specific scene from when I was small that I can still feel in my body, and part of me wishes I could step back into that moment and do for that kid what nobody did
- This isn’t something I can fix
- I keep replaying that argument from behind my own eyes and every time I do, the same hurt and anger flood right back as if it’s happening again
- When everything’s falling apart I have nobody in my head to turn to
Practices that may help
- Use imagery to re-engage with avoided experiences
Revisit a distressing memory in concrete imagery rather than abstract analysis.
Rumination-Focused CBT, Made Practical - Imagery rescripting for schema memories
Revisit a difficult childhood memory in imagination and rewrite it so the child’s needs are met.
Schema Therapy: Healing Early Maladaptive Beliefs - IMPROVE the moment
Use Imagery, Meaning, Prayer, Relaxation, One thing, Vacation, and Encouragement to get through right now.
Distress Tolerance Skills, Made Practical - The fly-on-the-wall replay
Replay a difficult event as if watching it from outside the room rather than from behind your own eyes.
Self-Distancing Journaling - Compassionate Imagery: The Compassionate Image and Safe Place
Develop a vivid compassionate figure in imagination whose care you can access during distress.
Compassion-Focused Therapy: Calming the Inner Critic - Dereflection: redirect attention from suffering to engagement
Stop staring at the suffering and put your attention fully on something worth doing.
Logotherapy - Situational reappraisal
Change how you interpret the situation itself — not the feeling, but the meaning of what is happening.
Cognitive Reappraisal vs. Suppression, Made Practical - 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 - Mental subtraction of a positive event
Vividly imagine how your life would look if a specific good thing had never happened.
Negative Visualization for Gratitude: The Stoic Path to Appreciation - Rehearse the full scenario in vivid mental imagery
Walk through the difficult situation in your mind — including the hard moments — and watch yourself cope.
Cope Ahead: DBT’s Method for Preparing for Difficult Situations
Related concerns
- Guided Imagery Distress
Vividly picture each hierarchy step while deeply relaxed until distress drops.
Imaginal exposure: pair relaxation with vivid mental imagery
- Mental Rehearsal And Imagery During Conflict
Walk through the difficult situation in your mind — including the hard moments — and watch yourself cope.
Rehearse the full scenario in vivid mental imagery
- Reminiscence Therapy
Robert Butler proposed that systematically reviewing one’s life narrative — organizing memories into a coherent story, reconciling conflicts, and identifying what has mattered — is a natural developmental task that, when done consciously, produces ego integrity, reduced depression, and greater life satisfaction. Randomized studies in older adults find moderate positive effects; the practice is also used meaningfully across adulthood, not only at end of life.
- Rfcbt Imagery Technique
Revisit a distressing memory in concrete imagery rather than abstract analysis.
Use imagery to re-engage with avoided experiences
- Cft Imagery Practice
Walk through the difficult situation in your mind — including the hard moments — and watch yourself cope.
- Imagery Practice Dbt
Walk through the difficult situation in your mind — including the hard moments — and watch yourself cope.
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