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Therapy Approaches Used
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT):
CBT is a therapy that helps to explore the connection between your thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. It is typically a more structured approach that involves strategies and exercises to help you to identify, explore, and change unhelpful thinking patterns, core beliefs, emotions, and behaviours.
Assertiveness Skills Training:
Assertiveness Skills Training may help improve communication, confidence, and self-esteem, and may address feelings of stress, anxiety, and anger. This is a CBT technique and involves learning more about what assertiveness entails, learning about your own communication styles/patterns, and engaging in practicing/role playing assertive communication (on your own and/or with your therapist).
Basic Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART):
ART is a unique approach that uses eye movements to replace negative images/negative sensations with positive ones, particularly to address trauma (although ART can help to address a variety of presenting concerns). This may, in turn, help to decrease or remove the impact of triggers. This type of therapy typically does not need many sessions to complete, and you do not need to talk about your event/trauma with the therapist if you do not want to.
Note: An ART session would be scheduled as a 90-minute session.
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Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)/Tapping:
EFT Tapping is a self-regulation tool that helps you to release and decrease the intensity of different emotions. It involves a series of somatic, gentle techniques using your fingertips to tap on acupressure points on your body while discussing an issue, the associated emotion, and the physiological location of the emotion. It also uses self-affirmations and can lead to developing new insights and changing limiting beliefs.
There are a variety of EFT Tapping techniques, including ones to address past stressful or traumatic events.
Note: I am officially certified in Clinical Emotional Freedom Techniques through the EFT Tapping Training Institute and accredited by EFT International.
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Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT):
DBT is a therapy approach that helps one to cope with different emotional experiences and behaviours. It is a skill-based approach that also incorporates talk-therapy to explore, address, and make helpful emotional and behavioural changes. Different sets of skills are reviewed to practice inside and outside of session.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT):
CPT is a cognitive-behavioural therapy approach for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and trauma. It is a structured approach that involves exploring the connection between thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and bodily sensations, and particularly the impact of traumatic experiences on thoughts and beliefs. This type of therapy involves regular homework and is generally delivered over approximately 12 sessions.
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Mindfulness Practice:
Mindfulness is a practice that helps you to feel more present and grounded, often leading to increased feelings of calmness, increased focus, and other positive experiences and emotions. Mindfulness involves experiencing increased awareness about yourself, others, and your environment with compassion and without judgment. It may involve exercises such as breathing techniques, sensory exercises, imagery, body-based exercises, and mindfulness meditations, for example.
Emotionally-Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT):
EFIT is an approach based on attachment theory that helps to explore your emotional experiences and how these relate to both current and past/childhood relationship patterns. It helps us to explore, validate, and address suppressed emotional needs, as well as to help create new emotional experiences, and in turn, to create healthier relationship and behavioural patterns.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT):
Solution-Focused Therapy is a strength-based, goal-focused therapy approach. It often involves the therapist asking different questions to elicit insight for the client and possible solutions to issues that the client may be experiencing. It is an approach that focuses more on one’s present and future rather than diving into the past.
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