Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic

Influence of the unconscious mind, early childhood experiences, and interpersonal relationships on behavior and mental processes.

Motivational Interviewing

Client-centered, goal-oriented counseling approach to help individual's motivation to change. Resolves ambivalence.

Person/Client-Centered Therapy

Carl Rogers. Inherent goodness of individuals and their capacity for self-growth and self-healing when provided with a supportive environment.

Alderian Therapy

Understanding of an individual's unique lifestyle, goals, and social contexts. Humans strive for significance, belonging, and meaning and helps individuals overcome feelings of inferiority. Birth order and family constellations. As if, role-playing

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Focuses on relationships between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Cognitive restructuring, behavioral activation, cognitive distortions, homework assignments, socratic questioning.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

Combines CBT techniques with mindfulness and acceptance strategies. Emotion regulation, distress tolerance.

Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy

Identifying and changing irrational beliefs that contribute to emotional and behavioral issues. Clients take responsibility for their thoughts and actions. ABC Model (Explains how beliefs influence emotions and behaviors), Self-Acceptance

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Help individuals increase their psychological flexibility, which is the ability to adapt to changing situations and pursue meaningful life goals despite challenges. Acceptance, cognitive defusion, mindfulness, values clarification.

Narrative Therapy

Views individuals as the authors of their own life stories. Reconstructs their narratives, prompting empowerment, self-discovery, and personal growth. Externalization, storytelling, re-authoring, thickening the narrative

Reality Therapy

Helps individuals take responsibility for their own choices and encourages them to make positive changes in their lives.

Transtheoretical Model

Stages of change model. Understanding how individuals change their behaviors.