What is Deep Structure Psychotherapy?

Deep Structure Psychotherapy (DSP) is a form of counseling that centers on the ways that brain cell networks "code" the mind by the compiling electromagnetic signals that emerge from their functioning. The main aim is to prime these networks to process information structures, or "deep structures," in new ways, both through the integration of effective parts of traditional psychotherapy approaches and with the addition of augmentative intervention techniques. In fact, all learning and personal change is naturally the result of deep structural alterations, and this means all approaches to counseling attempt to help people to grow by changing the organization of their deep structures, although indirectly. The DSP framework encourages more direct, targeted, and precise deep structural changes. Rather than aiming to replace existing psychotherapies, DSP aims to integrate and augment them with access to the underlying nature of the brain's mechanisms for change.

DSP integrates the useful components of the long-standing forms of counseling to develop a warm, empathetic, and genuine relationship between the patient and the counselor that builds trust and activates an array of relevant target deep structures that make up a patient's lived experiences and their resulting psychological problems. The target deep structures typically produce emotional feelings, associated thinking patterns and interpersonal relationship dynamics, although may sometimes relate to other human capacities. Crucially, though, DSP aims to boost the effectiveness and robustness of counseling by adding in deep structural clinical analysis and techniques that are aligned with the way the patient's intended changes occur in the brain. As such, the utimate goal for DSP is to enhance the well-being and quality of life of those who receive it from the ground-up. 

More information about DSP, and the Deep Structure Theory (DST) that informs it, can be found on the About DSP page.