What is it and for what type of complaint?

Contotherapy (storytelling therapy) is a technique that, through the playfulness that comes from tales (biographies, fictions, fables, etc ...) aims to promote mental health and, consequently, emotional, physical and spiritual harmony. The act to tell a story with the aim of teaching laws, beliefs, values ​​and / or assisting self-knowledge, is a very old practice that dates back to shamanic practices, runs through the Greeks, Romans, Turks, Chinese, Homer, Dante, Jesus, the brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll, Monteiro Lobato, Clarice Lispector, Machado de Assis, João Guimarães Rosa, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Charles Perrault, JM Barrie, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Edgar Allan Pöe, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, among others.

Through figures of speech, metaphors and allegories, we reach the unconscious more easily. Because of this easy access to our inner world (which impacts on our outer world), religions, psychology, education, cinema, literature, advertising, among other sciences and complementary therapies, use this resource to propagate their conceptions, ideas and points of view.

The use of stories with this therapeutic intention is also used in art therapy. However, Contotherapy (a term coined in 2014 by Anna Rosseto) as a methodology, is anchored in Storytelling, Biological Reprogramming, CNV - Nonviolent Communication and Personal Coaching. Contotherapy has an immense potential to assist the patient in his process of self-knowledge and mental reprogramming.

Duration: Each session lasts around 1 hour.

Procedure: After the patient has reported on why he sought psychotherapy, the necessity and the feasibility of the patient to undergo or not the treatment will be evaluated. If so, several techniques can be used to assist the patient in his journey of self-knowledge and self-healing.