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TYPES OF THERAPIES

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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:

  • 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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Feminist therapy

Feminist therapy specializes in gender and examines stressors, biases, discrimination, and other areas that may affect mental health.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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. 

Therapy Session

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.

Girl in 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.

Communicating with Sign Languages

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.

Eyes Closed

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

Smiling Couple

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.

Filling Out Form

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.

Therapy Session

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.

Therapy session

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.

Sitting on Couch

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.

Classmates in the Library

Feminist therapy specializes in gender and examines stressors, biases, discrimination, and other areas that may affect mental health.

Therapist

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.

Psychotherapy Session

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

White Sand and Stone

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.

Couples 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. 

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