TYPES OF THERAPIES
Rogerian therapy
Rogerian therapy is a form psychoanalysis developed by Carl Rogers (1902–1987).
Rogerian therapists place an emphasis on the client as the expert.
The therapist helps the client reach greater levels of self-awareness while striving towards self-actualization.
Existential therapy
Existential therapy takes a philosophical approach to therapy.
Existential therapy explores meaning, purpose in life, life and death, identity, freedom and responsibility, self-awareness and tension.
The therapist helps the client focus on personal responsibility for making decisions.
Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is an approach to improve communication.
The focus is increase empathy and improve the quality of life of those who utilize the method and the people around them.
EMDR therapy
A structured therapy that encourages the patient to hold a memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation, ( eye movements, sound or pulsator), which can reduce the the vividness and emotion associated with the unhelpful memories.
EMDR therapy uses a structured eight-phase approach that includes:
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Phase 1: History-taking
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Phase 2: Preparing the client
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Phase 3: Assessing the target memory
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Phases 4-7: Processing the memory to adaptive resolution
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Phase 8: Evaluating treatment results
ACT therapy
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT therapy) is a mindful approach that helps you to focused on the present moment and accept thoughts and feelings without judgment.
The aims is to help you move forward and learn to manage difficult emotions and focus on healing instead of dwelling on the negative.
Gestalt therapy
Gestalt therapy increases a person's awareness, freedom, and self-direction.
The focus is on the present moment rather than past experiences.
The main goal is to teach you to become aware of significant sensations internally and externally so that you can respond fully and reasonably to situations.
Prolonged exposure (PE)
Prolonged exposure (PE) uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help you to gradually approach trauma memories, feelings and situations through repetitive exposure. Prolonged exposure is provided within three months with weekly individual sessions, resulting in 8 to 15 sessions.
Schema therapy
Schema therapy brings together elements from cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment theory, Gestalt and experiential therapies.
The goal is to help you manage your emotional needs by learning how to heal schemas (mental concepts), emotional memories, bodily sensations by changing the cognitive patterns connected to the schema.
CBT
CBT is a structured problem-focused and goal oriented that is aimed to help you learn to identify, question and change your thoughts, attitudes and beliefs relate to the emotional and behavioral reactions that are unhelpful.
Feminist therapy
Feminist therapy specializes in gender and examines stressors, biases, discrimination, and other areas that may affect mental health.
Trans-Affirmative Therapy
Trans-Affirmative Therapy/ Affirmative Therapy is a therapeutic approach to therapy that embraces a positive view of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) identities and relationships.
The goal is to support, educate and addresses the negative influences that homophobia, transphobia, and heterosexism have on the lives of LGBTQ clients.
Focusing therapy
Focusing therapy (by Eugene Gendlin), works to help you gain awareness into bodily felt sense and experience what is difficult to describe in a concrete way.
The body holds information, and can hold trauma, we can access this information resulting in a shift of healing
Sandplay
Sandplay is a nonverbal, therapeutic intervention that uses sand tray to create miniature objects or figures to create scenes of miniature worlds that reflect a person's inner thoughts, struggles, and concerns.
Sex therapy
Sex Therapy is a specialized form of psychotherapy that addresses emotional and physical concerns affecting a person’s sexual function, drive, and/or desire for intimacy.
Rogerian therapy is a form psychoanalysis developed by Carl Rogers (1902–1987).
Rogerian therapists place an emphasis on the client as the expert.
The therapist helps the client reach greater levels of self-awareness while striving towards self-actualization.
Existential therapy takes a philosophical approach to therapy.
Existential therapy explores meaning, purpose in life, life and death, identity, freedom and responsibility, self-awareness and tension.
The therapist helps the client focus on personal responsibility for making decisions.
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is an approach to improve communication. The focus is increase empathy and improve the quality of life of those who utilize the method and the people around them.
A structured therapy that encourages the patient to hold a memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation, ( eye movements, sound or pulsator), which can reduce the the vividness and emotion associated with the unhelpful memories.
EMDR therapy uses a structured eight-phase approach that includes:
-
Phase 1: History-taking
-
Phase 2: Preparing the client
-
Phase 3: Assessing the target memory
-
Phases 4-7: Processing the memory to adaptive resolution
-
Phase 8: Evaluating treatment results
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT therapy) is a mindful approach that helps you to focused on the present moment and accept thoughts and feelings without judgment.
The aims is to help you move forward and learn to manage difficult emotions and focus on healing instead of dwelling on the negative.
Gestalt therapy increases a person's awareness, freedom, and self-direction.
The focus is on the present moment rather than past experiences.
The main goal is to teach you to become aware of significant sensations internally and externally so that you can respond fully and reasonably to situations.
Prolonged exposure ( PE) uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help you to gradually approach trauma memories, feelings and situations through repetitive exposure. Prolonged exposure is provided within three months with weekly individual sessions, resulting in 8 to 15 sessions.
Schema therapy brings together elements from cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment theory, Gestalt and experiential therapies.
The goal is to help you manage your emotional needs by learning how to heal schemas (mental concepts), emotional memories, bodily sensations by changing the cognitive patterns connected to the schema.
CBT is a structured problem-focused and goal oriented that is aimed to help you learn to identify, question and change your thoughts, attitudes and beliefs relate to the emotional and behavioral reactions that are unhelpful.
Feminist therapy specializes in gender and examines stressors, biases, discrimination, and other areas that may affect mental health.
Trans-Affirmative Therapy/ Affirmative Therapy is a therapeutic approach to therapy that embraces a positive view of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) identities and relationships.
The goal is to support, educate and addresses the negative influences that homophobia, transphobia, and heterosexism have on the lives of LGBTQ clients.
Focusing therapy (by Eugene Gendlin), works to help you gain awareness into bodily felt sense and experience what is difficult to describe in a concrete way.
The body holds information, and can hold trauma, we can access this information resulting in a shift of healing
Sandplay is a nonverbal, therapeutic intervention thay uses sand tray to create miniature objects or figures to create scenes of miniature worlds that reflect a person's inner thoughts, struggles, and concerns.
Sex Therapy is a specialized form of psychotherapy that addresses emotional and physical concerns affecting a person’s sexual function, drive, and/or desire for intimacy.