For those of you with a Resource State with a curious bent let me explain in technical terms. Our Resources can be equated to neural pathways and develop with neuroplasticity the ability to change and be rewired. Brain cells use neuro genesis, and there are two main ways this occurs. During normal brain development when...Read More

Several important distinctions exist between Resource Personality Theory (also known as Advanced Ego State Therapy) and the Theories of John and Helen Watkins (1997) and their Ego State movement. Both are excellent therapeutic approaches, and both are based on the assumption that the personality is composed of parts. Differences between Resource Therapy and Ego State...Read More

From Gordon Emmerson: I called myself an Ego State Therapist for many years, and I have written a number of books and articles on my conception of the personality from an Ego State perspective.  I spent a summer with John and Helen Watkins in Missoula Montana in 2000, which was very meaningful to me. I...Read More

Gordon Emmerson had originally learned about the concepts of Ego State Therapy from the teachings of John and Helen Watkins. He practiced and taught Ego State Therapy for a number of years and wrote two books on Ego State Therapy, Ego State Therapy (2003), and Advances Skills and Interventions in Therapeutic Counselling (2007). Even while...Read More