Client Experience Comparisons

Timeline Therapy vs Rewiring?

Shared Goals

Both Timeline Therapy and Anxiety Rewiring aim to help clients release unresolved emotional patterns by reconnecting with the root of the problem - often a specific event in life that created a lasting imprint. Both modalities seek to free the present by accessing the past, but the route taken, and the emotional texture of each session, differs dramatically.

Wounds can heal when we reprocess them calmly and from a distance.

Client Experiences with Timeline Therapy

Timeline therapy is built on the premise that our minds store memories in a chronological sequence - a mental timeline - which can be consciously navigated to trace the origins of limiting emotions, e.g. anger, sadness, fear, and guilt.

A typical Timeline Therapy session includes:

  • Identifying a target problematic emotional pattern

  • Floating above an imagined, metaphorical timeline of life in search of an inciting moment for that pattern

  • Revisiting a traumatic experience or inciting event in first person perspective

  • Retreat from the memory followed by guided metaphor and forgiveness rituals aimed at release

  • Revisiting the same traumatic experience or inciting event in person perspective again, aiming for more targets of metaphorical and forgiveness rituals for release

Make space for the story you’ve been carrying.

Client Takeaways in Timeline Therapy

Talk Therapy excels when:

  • Suggestion and symbolic processing are comfortable mechanisms for a client’s healing

  • Reframing and forgiveness rituals as tools for relief resonate with clients

  • Clients enjoy guided metaphor and find structured, directed internal work engaging or helpful

  • Clients are able to rebound from repeated, intense exposure to traumatic memories

But it can stall if:

  • Clients struggle with rapid exposure and retreat involving intensely traumatic memories

  • The metaphor of “floating above the timeline” may not feel intuitive to clients with a concrete, somatic, or non-visual processing style

  • A client with trauma around control, suggestion, or hypnotic techniques may feel uneasy with the directive language used in traditional Timeline Therapy scripts

  • Clients are unable to quickly rebound from repeated, intense exposure to traumatic memories related to abuse

“I could see where it started, and I felt like I let it go, but part of me still feels like I didn’t completely work it out, like there was something beneath it I hadn’t reached yet.”

If you identify with this statement, you might benefit from the Anxiety Rewiring modality.

Anxiety Rewiring

Client Experiences with Anxiety Rewiring

Anxiety Rewiring shares a common ancestor with Timeline Therapy. Critcally, our modality exclusively works in concrete recollection and intuitive insight, accessed through a calm, structured, and distanced approach to painful memories. Unlike practitioners of Timeline Therapy, we do not guide clients through a kind of internalized exposure therapy. Instead, Anxiety Rewiring therapists foster calm environments for self-guided healing.

An Anxiety Rewiring session will specifically include:

  • Identifying a target problematic emotional pattern

  • Revisiting an inciting moment for that pattern

  • Reducing your stress responses with concrete imagined distance

  • Inviting clarity, compassion, and self-support

  • Gradually closing in on the root memory, gaining insight at every step

Client Takeaways in Anxiety Rewiring

In Anxiety Rewiring, clients engage with emotionally significant memories from a calm, imagined distance. At each stage, they’re invited to inquire of themselves what they need to know in order to move forward from the emotional and cognitive impact. The process is gradual, structured, internally guided, and emotionally grounded.

Clients often report:

  • Relief at being able to process traumatic emotions from a distance

  • Spontaneous clarity about wht was needed to let the pain resolve

  • A lasting sense of emotional shift at every stage of rewire

“I didn’t argue with my fears. I learned from myself what was propping them up, and then I learned to let those things go.”

If you want to identify with this statement, you might benefit from the Anxiety Rewiring modality.