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Attachment

58 techniques · 8 approaches
AEDP
Affect Deepening
Affect Deepening
Slowing down and deepening the emotional experience by focusing attention on bodily sensations and inviting the client to "give the feeling …
AEDP
Completing the Affective Wave
Completing the Affective Wave
Accompanying the client through a full emotional cycle: rising → peak → subsiding → opening, without interrupting and without trying to "res…
AEDP
Healing Affects Recognition
Healing Affects Recognition
The deliberate noticing and highlighting of positive emotions that arise after the full experiencing of core affect: gratitude, tenderness, …
AEDP
Metatherapeutic Processing
Metatherapeutic Processing
Work in the 4th state: the client reflects on the therapeutic experience itself — what it meant to live through this together, how the relat…
AEDP
Portrayals / Experiential Processing
Portrayals / Experiential Processing
Inviting the client to imagine a significant other (a parent, a partner) and address them directly, expressing blocked feelings — in the pre…
AEDP
Somatic-Affective Tracking
Somatic-Affective Tracking
Continuous attention to the bodily markers of emotional change: tightening, expansion, warmth, cold, trembling — as a navigator of the thera…
AEDP
Therapist Self-Disclosure
Therapist Self-Disclosure
The therapist's open expression of their feelings and reactions in response to the client: "When you say this, I feel…" — as an instrument f…
AEDP
Tracking Transformational Markers
Tracking Transformational Markers
Systematic observation of the signs of transformation in session: bodily shifts, new meanings, change in the relationship to self and others…
AEDP
Undoing Aloneness
Undoing Aloneness
Creating emotional safety through the therapist's open presence: "You are not alone with this." The therapist explicitly expresses care, att…
CFT
Compassionate Imagery Rescripting
Compassionate Imagery Rescripting
An imagery technique for working through painful memories: the adult "compassionate self" "enters" the memory and supports the child who was…
CFT
Fears, Blocks and Resistances to Compassion (FBR)
Fears, Blocks and Resistances to Compassion (FBR)
A diagnostic and therapeutic work with what stops the client from receiving compassion — to self, from others, to others. Gilbert distinguis…
CFT
Receiving Compassion from Others
Receiving Compassion from Others
A specific CFT practice aimed at developing the capacity to receive care, warmth, and support from others. Many clients can give compassion …
EFT
Attending to Bodily Felt Sense
Attending to Bodily Felt Sense
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Clearing a Space
Clearing a Space
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Compassionate Self-Soothing
Compassionate Self-Soothing
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Core Maladaptive Emotion Schemes
Core Maladaptive Emotion Schemes
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Creating New Meaning
Creating New Meaning
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Emotion Transformation
Emotion Transformation
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Empathic Attunement
Empathic Attunement
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Empathic Conjecture
Empathic Conjecture
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Empathic Exploration
Empathic Exploration
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Empty Chair Dialogue
Empty Chair Dialogue
A classic experiential task for unfinished business with a significant other. The client speaks directly to an imagined person in the empty …
EFT
Experiential Focusing Prompts
Experiential Focusing Prompts
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Focusing (Gendlin)
Focusing (Gendlin)
A method for contacting an unclear bodily felt sense and letting words, images, and meaning emerge from it.
EFT
Meaning Creation
Meaning Creation
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Primary vs. Secondary Emotions
Primary vs. Secondary Emotions
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Problematic Reaction Marker → Systematic Evocative Unfolding
Problematic Reaction Marker → Systematic Evocative Unfolding
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Process Directives
Process Directives
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Self-Critical Split Marker → Two-Chair
Self-Critical Split Marker → Two-Chair
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Self-Interruption Marker → Two-Chair Enactment
Self-Interruption Marker → Two-Chair Enactment
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Symbolizing Emotion in Words
Symbolizing Emotion in Words
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Systematic Evocative Unfolding
Systematic Evocative Unfolding
A process-experiential method for exploring a problematic reaction by slowly reconstructing the episode and unfolding the emotional sequence…
EFT
Two-Chair Dialogue
Two-Chair Dialogue
A chair-work task for internal conflict, often between a critical voice and an experiencing self. The client moves between chairs so both po…
EFT
Two-Chair Enactment
Two-Chair Enactment
An active two-chair procedure used when one part interrupts, silences, or blocks another part. The aim is to make the interruption visible a…
EFT
Unclear Felt Sense Marker → Focusing
Unclear Felt Sense Marker → Focusing
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Unfinished Business Marker → Empty Chair
Unfinished Business Marker → Empty Chair
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Vulnerability Marker → Compassionate Self-Soothing
Vulnerability Marker → Compassionate Self-Soothing
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT for Couples
A.R.E. Check-In
A.R.E. Check-In
A regular check of the three attachment questions: accessibility, responsiveness, engagement. Helps the couple monitor the state of the emot…
EFT for Couples
Accessing Primary Emotions
Accessing Primary Emotions
Helping partners move from secondary emotions (anger, irritation) to primary ones (fear, pain, loneliness). Primary emotions connect, second…
EFT for Couples
Attachment Injury Resolution
Attachment Injury Resolution
A structured working-through of a specific episode when one partner was not there at a critical moment. "When I was at my worst — you were n…
EFT for Couples
Attachment Reframing
Attachment Reframing
Redefining the conflict as an attachment question: "You are not fighting about the dishes — you are both asking: are you there? Do I matter …
EFT for Couples
Blamer Softening
Blamer Softening
The culmination of EFT: helping the pursuing partner move from demands and criticism to a request for closeness from a position of vulnerabi…
EFT for Couples
Choreographing Engaged Contact
Choreographing Engaged Contact
The therapist guides the creation of a new experience of interaction in real time: helps one to express a need, the other to respond, both —…
EFT for Couples
Enactment
Enactment
The therapist asks one partner to turn to the other and say something directly — from the primary emotion, not through the therapist. Create…
EFT for Couples
Evocative Responding
Evocative Responding
The therapist reflects the partner's emotional experience with an emphasis on primary emotions, helping to deepen and widen awareness. Not i…
EFT for Couples
Heightening
Heightening
The deliberate amplification of a key emotional moment through repetition, slowing down, and focusing attention. Helps the partner fully liv…
EFT for Couples
Hold Me Tight Conversation
Hold Me Tight Conversation
A structured dialogue in which each partner expresses their deep attachment needs and asks for what they need. Based on Sue Johnson's book.
EFT for Couples
Negative Cycle Identification
Negative Cycle Identification
Identifying and naming the couple's repeating pattern of interaction: who pursues, who withdraws, how each reinforces the other's reaction. …
EFT for Couples
Withdrawer Re-engagement
Withdrawer Re-engagement
Helping the withdrawing partner voice their attachment needs and the fears that hide behind silence and withdrawal.
IFS
Do-Over / Reparenting
Do-Over / Reparenting
After witnessing, the Self offers the Exile what was missing back then: protection, comfort, love, fairness. This is not a change of the mem…
ISTDP
Complex Transference Feelings (CTF)
Complex Transference Feelings (CTF)
Work with mixed feelings toward the therapist, often including anger, love, guilt, grief, and fear, as they emerge in the transference.
MBT
Marked Mirroring
Marked Mirroring
A technique from attachment research, brought into the therapeutic context of MBT. When a small child cries, an adequate caregiver reflects …
MBT
Mentalization of the Transference
Mentalization of the Transference
An advanced MBT technique in which the therapist focuses the client's attention on the therapeutic relationship here and now, using it as a …
MBT
Process Monitoring
Process Monitoring
Continuous observation by the therapist of three key parameters throughout the session: (1) the client's level of mentalization, (2) the lev…
MBT
Relational Mentalizing
Relational Mentalizing
An advanced fourth-level technique in which the therapist addresses the interaction between therapist and client as the object of mentalizat…
MBT
Working with the Teleological Stance
Working with the Teleological Stance
A technique for working with the non-mentalizing mode in which the client only recognizes observable, physical actions and outcomes as real.…
SE
Co-Regulation Through Therapeutic Presence
Co-Regulation Through Therapeutic Presence
Co-Regulation Through Therapeutic Presence is used in Somatic Experiencing to work with somatic trauma regulation through present-moment tra…
SE
SE Touch Work
SE Touch Work
SE Touch Work is used in Somatic Experiencing to work with somatic trauma regulation through present-moment tracking, careful pacing and int…
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