After living in South Africa for a time in my twenties, I’m always interested in how this beautiful and dangerous country is managed.
Ironically, it seems the nationwide struggle with PTSD is being managed with BWRT.
An article from January 2020 explains that Brainworking Recursive Therapy is now used by the police force and in prisons to deal with mental health issues centered around anxiety and trauma.
When I was living in South Africa I had never heard of BWRT or thought about becoming a BWRT therapist – in fact, BWRT wasn’t even invented until 2013, long after I’d left.
I’m amazed, though not surprised that BWRT has become to go-to treatment for anxiety and PTSD – I am only wondering what’s taking other countries so long to adopt it as well.
The National Health System (NHS) of the United Kingdom is also ‘on’ to the benefits of Brainworking Recursive Therapy. During the Covid crisis they’ve been using it as the primary treatment to support frontline workers suffering from stress, anxiety and trauma.
Soon enough, I expect BWRT to go completely mainstream in countries all over the world due to its speed and effectiveness.
Traditional methods for treating mental health problems — such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) — aren’t practical in all healthcare settings, as they take a long time to have an effect.
Clinical psychologist Rafiq Lockhart has been using and teaching BWRT, a new, faster alternative to such approaches in South Africa.
“Most of my patients are victims of rape, hijackings, armed robberies and knife attacks. On a daily basis, about 60% of my practice is dealing with these types of trauma.”
Having spent more than 30 years treating patients with mental health issues in South Africa, Rafiq Lockhat is used to the human impact of crime in a country with the fifth-highest murder rate in the world.
This articles goes in depth about how BWRT is helping and it just proved to me once again that online BWRT is one of the fastest, most effective therapies available.
