About BWRT® & How it Can Help
BWRT® (Brain Working Recursive Therapy)
What is BWRT®?
How does it work? BWRT® changes old negative ways of thinking by intercepting the trigger thought at source and creating a new neural pathway so an emotion or event can no longer trigger destructive behavior patterns or thoughts that hold us back and leave us crippled by our fears and conditioning.
BWRT® Treats:
SOCIAL ANXIETY
Do you have an intense, persistent fear of being watched and judged by others? Are these accompanied by physical symptoms such as nausea, shaking, or feeling faint when you are around people or performing? Do you find it hard to interact with friends?
BWRT® can help.
ANXIETY
Do you feel constantly tense? Do worry and fear dominate your decisions? Do you feel like something bad is going to happen? Is there a constant knot in your stomach or tightness in your chest?
BWRT® rewires you to experience freedom no matter what is going on around you.
HEALTH ANXIETY
PTSD
After a traumatic event have you found that a certain sound, sight, smell, taste or feeling that resembles the event can trigger those old feelings? The effect of trauma is real, and doesn’t simply get better with time.
BWRT® disconnects your emotions from the trauma, so you no longer have to feel terrible.
PHOBIAS
Phobias cause us to live in a constant state of fear and avoidance. It’s as if the brain’s safety alarm system has become over-sensitive and triggers when there is not really any real danger or threat. Does your phobia makes you feel embarrassed and out of control?
BWRT® can help.
OCD
Do you experience recurring obsessions that drive you to do something repetitively (compulsions) that interferes with your daily life? Do you experience severe anxiety as a result of obsessive thoughts or engage in extensive rituals in an attempt to reduce the anxiety?
BWRT® disconnects you from your compulsions.
DEPRESSION
When depressed you don’t control your thoughts, your thoughts control you. Do you find yourself withdrawing from daily activities, getting less socially and physically active? Do you find each time you lie and say you are fine, you die a little more inside?
BWRT® gets to the root cause fast, leaving you full of energy and hope.
GRIEF
— “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” — When we lose a loved one, the pain we experience can feel unbearable. Does the grieving process feel like it will never end or has it got worse over time?
BWRT® can help you manage your grief and move forward.
LOW SELF-ESTEEM
Do you lack confidence, feel unlovable, awkward, or incompetent? Do you doubt your skills and feel ashamed or embarrassed? Do you believe you will always fail or blame others for your failures? Do you avoid compliments and struggle to set boundaries?
BWRT® releases these limiting beliefs & restores your confidence.
SPORTS ENHANCEMENT
Sports performance has been found to have as much to do with mental abilities as physical abilities.
BWRT® can help athletes fine tune their neural pathways for optimal performance.
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Video: How does BWRT work?
BWRT® (Brain Working Recursive Therapy) FAQs
BWRT can help with all types of anxiety and fear symptoms – social anxiety, health anxiety, generalised anxiety, phobias, specific fears, trauma memories and PTSD to name a few. The therapy can also help to alleviate mild depression, grief or guilt, plus emotional or disordered eating and food cravings.
BWRT can help to improve self esteem and confidence, plus enhance performance in all areas of life including work, sports and gaming.
Briefly, BWRT works with the primitive (pre-conscious) brain to change neural pathways. With BWRT negative thoughts, feelings and behaviours can be changed to more positive and helpful responses.
A negative thought/trigger can appear 1/3 of a second in the brain before it reaches our conscious awareness and by the time we are aware of it, we have already responded to it subconsciously.
No, a lot of problems can be resolved in as little as one session which makes BWRT so special. It is very unusual for problems to need more than 4 sessions to reach resolution.
No, not at all. BWRT can be used to also make small tweaks in your life to improve your overall well-being so that you can live your best life.
There are no lasting side effects with BWRT. People often feel great after a session! Some people may feel a little ‘disconnected’ for a few seconds – but that’s all – as the brain lets go of the problem at the end of the session.
No – unlike other therapies BWRT doesn’t work in this way. In fact, you don’t even have to tell me what the exact fear is, you might say something like “I have these panic attacks” and that is often all I need to know. The therapy is “content free,” so you don’t have to describe to me exactly what you are thinking about or feeling.
Yes! With BWRT the benefits last. To date, there have not been any reports of symptoms returning once they have been fully resolved.
BWRT can safely be used with children from 5 years of age upwards. It is suitable for all types of personality and any gender.
Unfortunately there is not one therapy in the world that can claim to work every single time… but BWRT comes close!
Yes! BWRT can be used to improved sporting performance as well performance in business, relationships, driving, exams or anything else where you need to give your best.
For some, grieving is a process which does not improve over time; it may even become worse.
BWRT works in a natural way by reducing/changing the emotion of the grieving memory so that we can feel it and process it but we are also able to get on with life in a healthy way. In the future grieving triggers no longer evoke such overwhelming feelings.
Anger is an expression of the ‘fight’ response rather than flight, freeze, or fold, having a higher energy than the other primitive brain reactions to threatening stimuli. It is often more difficult to manage with traditional therapies when it turns harmful. Since BWRT works directly with the Reptilian complex (the most primitive part of the brain), it is ideally suited to neutralising anger and most everyday anger issues are easily resolved with BWRT.
What the Experts say about BWRT®:
*The following are professional statements from top-flight psychological health practitioners. The accounts of their work on this page show how BWRT® has made their work easier and more effective, allowing them to provide faster and more efficient healthcare than ever before. These are registered full-time health professionals who have many other skills and yet, as you will see, prefer the speed and efficiency of BWRT®
Rafiq Lockhat, MA Clinical Psychologist Head of BWRT® South Africa
“I am a Clinical Psychologist and have been practicing since 1989. I have been the Vice Chairperson of the South African Society of Clinical Psychologists and a former executive member of the Psychological Society of South Africa, and have also served on the Committee of Preliminary Disciplinary Enquiry of the Professional Board for Psychology in the Health Professions Council of South Africa.During my many years of clinical practice I have utilized many different forms of psychotherapy to help heal my patients. When I discovered BWRT® through doing Terence Watts’ course it felt like I had discovered a silver bullet. The result that I was achieving felt almost too good to be true.
I have since used BWRT® on almost 4,000 patients, and now use it exclusively to treat all of my patients, with remarkable success rates for a range of disorders such as: PTSD (which is very common in South Africa); sexual abuse; rape; phobias; grief; anxiety; panic attacks; depression among other conditions. What makes BWRT® different is that the results achieved are permanent and follow up 3 months, 6 months and 1 year patients show the same improvements made. The other remarkable thing about BWRT®is that these results are achieved in a fraction of the time compared to other therapies I have used before. In many cases it takes between 1 and 5 sessions. Where as before BWRT® this may have taken me up to 6 months to achieve the same results. So it is highly cost effective and user friendly in a country like South Africa where trauma is almost the norm.
The BWRT®course in South Africa has been approved by the Continuous Professional Development Committee of the Health Professions Council of South Africa, to be taught to Psychologists and Psychiatrists in South Africa as part of their continuous professional development requirement. As of today approximately 800 Psychologists and 6 Psychiatrists have been trained in BWRT®. The feedback received is that almost everyone using it in their practice is achieving the same remarkable results to the benefit of their patients. In summary, BWRT® is a psychotherapy which is revolutionizing the world of Psychology in South Africa. It is highly effective, cost effective and accessible to a wide range of patients in a multicultural society like South Africa.”
“I have been a clinical psychologist for the last 37 years and a management consultant for the last 20. I have used multiple different models over the years in order to help people to heal their anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, abuse, career and relationship issues.
I have been using BWRT® for the last 2 ½ years – having conducted at least 400 sessions – and it has completely revolutionised my practice. I am able to help people to heal their emotional issues in a fraction of the time it used to take me, utilising talk therapy modalities and other more emotionally focussed methods. I have had a number of clients who have recorded 12 or more of the 15 symptoms for PTSD – only 7 being necessary for the diagnosis of PTSD – reducing this number to 1 or 2 symptoms in between 2 and 5 sessions! The level of inspiration this has given me and the confidence that I can truly help severe problems in a very short time, is nothing short of spectacular.
When I first got into management consulting I worked with Dr Merle Friedman who sat on the advisory board for an International Trauma Institute. She would have thought I was fabricating such reports around the capacity for BWRT® to heal trauma and I was as skeptical myself of such claims before I began to use it. I have been able to help people heal the wounds created by sexual abuse decades ago, in just 20 minutes. I have helped people come off medication for anxiety, depression and sleep disorders that they have been on for months and sometimes years, in 6 weeks. I have seen adolescents who have had months and years of traditional therapy, including CBT, resolve grief, trauma and bullying in 3-6 sessions.
I am not saying that BWRT® works with everyone, all of the time. No therapeutic model does – and Terence Watts has said as much, many times – but I would say that I can achieve the kind of results I talk about above with at least 70% – 80% of my clients.
BWRT® is my first port of call for just about every problem I am confronted with in my practice and would recommend it to anyone.”
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