The Therapy FAD? Rethinking our Feelings, Anxiety and Defences Across Modalities

Every client’s struggle follows the same human sequence: feelings trigger anxiety, and anxiety triggers defences. The “Therapy FAD” reframes this not as pathology, but as survival. When therapists learn to read defences as signals of unprocessed feeling, and regulate anxiety rather than chase thoughts, therapy becomes a space for transformation, not resistance.