Narrative Therapy centers on individuals’ narratives to identify their values and skills, encouraging reliance on their own competencies to address life problems.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a treatment focusing on changing negative patterns of thought and behavior to address psychological issues. It is known for its effectiveness in treating a variety of mental health conditions.
Brief Therapy centers on specific problems and direct intervention, offering solutions within a short period.
Cognitive therapy emphasizes identifying and changing inaccurate or distorted thinking patterns, attitudes, and beliefs.
Creative Therapy uses artistic methods to treat psychological disorders and enhance mental health.
Eclectic therapy integrates various therapeutic approaches and techniques to fit the needs of the individual client.
Existential therapy focuses on free will, self-determination, and the search for meaning—often centering on you rather than on the symptom.
Humanistic Therapy focuses on individual potential and stresses the importance of growth and self-actualization.
Integrative or Holistic Therapy combines practices and theories from various therapeutic approaches to fit the needs of the individual client.
Play Therapy utilizes play, children’s natural medium of expression, to help them express their feelings more easily through toys instead of words.
Relational therapy emphasizes the role of interpersonal relationships as a vehicle for achieving psychological growth and healing.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is a cognitive-behavioral treatment approach that emphasizes balancing behavioral change, problem-solving, and emotional regulation with acceptance, compassion, and validation.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy combines cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness strategies in order to help individuals better understand and manage their thoughts and emotions.
Motivational Interviewing is a counseling method that helps people resolve ambivalent feelings and insecurities to find the internal motivation they need to change their behavior.
Positive Psychology is the scientific study of the strengths that enable individuals and communities to thrive, focusing on well-being, contentment, and fulfillment.
Schema Therapy combines elements of cognitive therapy, behavior therapy, object relations, and gestalt therapy into one unified, systematic approach to treatment.
Psychoeducation refers to the process of providing education and information to those seeking or receiving mental health services, such as diagnoses, treatment options, and coping strategies for dealing with mental health.
Person-Centered Therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, emphasizes a non-directive, empathetic approach that empowers and motivates the client in the therapeutic process.
Psychodynamic therapy focuses on unconscious processes as they are manifested in a person’s present behavior, with the goals of self-awareness and understanding of the influence of the past on present behavior.
Solution Focused Brief Therapy is a goal-directed collaborative approach to psychotherapeutic change that is conducted through direct observation of clients’ responses to a series of precisely constructed questions.
Systemic therapy seeks to understand the individual in the context of the systems they are a part of, considering the interactions and relationships within families and other systems.