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MBTI
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a personality test that enables people to become more aware of themselves. It is used by a variety of therapists and counsellors to assist clients understand their own behaviour as the difference between their responses and those of other people. More...
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Meditation
Meditation, which has been practiced for thousands of years, is an effective means of treating stress and managing pain. More...
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Mindfulness
The aim of mindfulness therapy is to help you learn to be aware of your thoughts and bodily sensations and in so doing be able to better cope with day to day difficult emotions and problems.
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Music Therapy
Music therapy allows persons to explore personal feelings, make positive changes in mood and emotional states, practice problem solving, and resolve conflicts leading to stronger family and peer relationships.
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Narrative Therapy
Narrative therapy assists persons to resolve problems by encouraging them to re-author their lives according to alternative and preferred stories of identity. More...
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NLP
NLP practitioners tend to work in a variety of ways and modalities often similar in method to coaching. NLP Therapy is generally a short-term, practical therapeutic approach to solving problems, achieving goals and personal evolution. More...
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Object Relations
Object Relations is not so much a therapy as a set of theories which postulate that relationships (beginning with the mother-infant dyad) are primary, and that intrapsychic, interpersonal, and group experiences lay the foundation for the development of individual identity. More...
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Person Centred
The person-centred therapist believes that good mental health is a balance between the ideal self and real self. Person-centred therapy emphasises understanding and caring rather than diagnosis, advice, and persuasion. More...
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Play Therapy
Play therapy is the use of play situations in a therapeutic setting. Children are seen in a playroom where toys and materials have been selected to encourage expressive play through activities such as artwork, playing with dolls, puppets, and using play-dough or small figurines in a sand tray. More...
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Process Oriented
Process work is a cross-disciplinary approach to support individual and collective change. Physical symptoms, relationship problems, group conflicts and social tensions, when approached with curiosity and respect, can lead to new information that is vital for personal and collective growth. More...
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Provocative Humour
Provocative Therapy is a system of psychotherapy in which the therapist plays the devil's advocate, siding with the negative half of the client's ambivalence toward his life's goals, his relationships, work and the structures within which he lives. More...
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Psychoanalytic
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy focuses mainly on the first six years of human life and how the events of this time period structures personality. Repressed conflicts from childhood lead to personality problems later in life. Anxiety is a direct result of the repression of conflicts. More...
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Psychodrama
Psychodrama, as a method is frequently used in treatment settings. Role playing can aid in releasing strong emotions, transport us into altered realities and promote deep healing well beyond the scope of talk therapy. More...
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Psychodynamic
The ancient Greek word 'Psyche', meaning Spirit/Soul, has commonly been limited in modern language to signify 'mind' and intellectual process. In Psychodynamic concepts, the term Psyche connotes thoughts, emotions, instincts and feelings as well as 'soul'. Together they are understood to have a reciprocal influence and interaction; hence, the adjunct term 'Dynamic', to signify the activity and movement of diverse forces that in turn creates another movement. More...
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Psychosexual
Sex therapy employs many of the same basic principles as other therapeutic modalities, but is unique in that it is an approach developed specifically for the treatment of sexual problems. More...
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Psychosynthesis
Psychosynthesis has been described as a psychology with a soul. As the client's self becomes more and more a source of guidance, strength, purpose, joy, wisdom, and love, he or she becomes increasingly able to function in the world with these qualities:
serenely, spontaneously, with integrity and respect for others, in a spirit of cooperation, understanding, and goodwill.
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Radix
RADIX uses a diversity of mind (verbal), feelings (affective), and body (somatic) counselling techniques to bring lasting change to each level of the whole person. More...
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Reality Therapy
Reality Therapy is grounded in the idea that regardless of what has 'happened' in our lives, or what we have done in the past, we can choose behaviours that will help us meet our needs more effectively in the future. More...
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REBT
By giving the client the tools for identifying and overcoming the true source of their difficulties, Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy prepares them to act in many ways as their own therapist. By reinforcing realistic self-benefitting beliefs, it eliminates existing emotional and behavioural concerns, and the means to avoid future ones. More...
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Sand Tray
The heart of sand tray therapy lies in allowing our inner self to guide our choices and then listen to the messages we are giving ourselves about creating, overcoming and completing a phase of growth and healing. More...
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Schema Therapy
The goals of Schema Therapy are: to help patients to stop using maladaptive coping styles and thus get back in touch with their core feelings; to heal their early schemas; to learn how to flip out of self-defeating schema modes as quickly as possible; and eventually to get their emotional needs met in everyday life. More...
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Self Psychology
Self psychology is a developmental psychology deriving its understanding of psyche from contemporary research into the developing infant. Self psychology also maintains the perspective that human psychological functioning is always embedded in social interactions. More...
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Solution Oriented
Those who use resource- and solution-oriented models have been influenced by many scholars. They hold the view that people constantly create stories about their own life and thereby create also their own selves. The therapist's job is to help the client to produce and maintain stories of coping and success instead of stories about failure. More...
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Somatic Psychotherapy
Somatic Psychotherapy pays attention to the different levels of human experience as these emerge in the therapeutic relationship: verbal, emotional, physical, social and spiritual. The unitary nature and special creative quality of each individual person is deeply respected, as are the very different paths of personal growth, which emerge from each person's individual process of development and self-actualisation.
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Soul Centred Psychotherapy
SCP focuses on relationship, mindfulness, attention, lived experience, meaning, honouring, and the sacred. More...
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SRP
Structured Relapse Prevention (SRP) is a counselling approach that employs cognitive-behavioral treatment to help clients learn the coping skills they need to deal effectively with daily substance abuse triggers and risk situations. More...
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Systems Theory
A change in one element of a system may cause changes in (upset the balance of) related elements and systems. That's why one member of a household or family system getting 'upset' affects other members emotionally, mentally, physically, and/or spiritually. More...
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Transactional Analysis
TA practitioners are able to use the many tools of psychotherapy, ranging from psychodynamic to cognitive behavioural methods in effective and potent ways. Counsellors who utilise transactional analysis, work contractually with solving 'here and now' problems with the main focus on creating productive problem solving behaviours. More...
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Transpersonal
The basic assumption of transpersonal therapy is that there is more to you than your personality. One goal of transpersonal therapy is to encourage and develop those tendencies which allow an individual to dis-identify from the restrictions of the personality and to apprehend their identity with the total self. More...
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