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Awareness

46 techniques · 10 approaches
Adlerian
Spitting in the Client's Soup
Spitting in the Client's Soup
The therapist does not forbid the neurotic behavior but makes it less "tasty" by exposing its hidden goal. Once the client sees why they are…
E-I Therapy
Awe Cultivation
Awe Cultivation
A structured Existential-Integrative Therapy technique focused on awe cultivation. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the ap…
E-I Therapy
Constriction-Expansion Mapping
Constriction-Expansion Mapping
A structured Existential-Integrative Therapy technique focused on constriction-expansion mapping. It gives the therapist a concrete way to t…
E-I Therapy
Deep Fear Exploration
Deep Fear Exploration
A structured Existential-Integrative Therapy technique focused on deep fear exploration. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate …
E-I Therapy
Existential Challenge
Existential Challenge
A structured Existential-Integrative Therapy technique focused on existential challenge. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate …
E-I Therapy
Meaning Through Paradox
Meaning Through Paradox
A structured Existential-Integrative Therapy technique focused on meaning through paradox. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translat…
E-I Therapy
Polarity Work
Polarity Work
A structured Existential-Integrative Therapy technique focused on polarity work. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the appr…
E-I Therapy
Therapeutic Presence
Therapeutic Presence
A structured Existential-Integrative Therapy technique focused on therapeutic presence. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate t…
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 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
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
Live Cycle Tracking
Live Cycle Tracking
When the negative cycle appears in session, the therapist stops the process and names it: "Here it is, your dance. Let us slow down and look…
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.
EFT for Couples
Working with Fear of Closeness
Working with Fear of Closeness
Inquiry into the fears that prevent accepting closeness: "If I show vulnerability — I will be hurt. If I let in — I will lose myself." Norma…
ERT
Motivational Awareness
Motivational Awareness
Teaching the client to see emotions as informative signals about needs and values, rather than as problems that must be eliminated.
Focusing
Felt Sense Formation
Felt Sense Formation
The key step of focusing: the client picks one theme and lets the body form a whole, pre-conceptual sense of the entire situation. The felt …
Gestalt
Awareness Continuum
Awareness Continuum
For several minutes the client keeps answering the question "What are you noticing now?" — without interpretation, without "should be", only…
IBCT
Acceptance Letter
Acceptance Letter
Each partner writes a letter describing what they accept in the other — including what they used to want to change. The letters are read in …
IBCT
Closeness-Distance Scaling
Closeness-Distance Scaling
A weekly rating of the sense of closeness on a 1–10 scale by each partner. Tracking the dynamics, discussing differences in perception.
IBCT
Emotional Vulnerability Sharing
Emotional Vulnerability Sharing
A structured exercise in which each partner shares their deep vulnerability — what they most fear in the relationship. The second one listen…
IBCT
Empathic Joining
Empathic Joining
Helping the partners move from hard emotions (anger, criticism) to soft ones (pain, fear, loneliness). When one expresses vulnerability and …
IBCT
Functional Analysis of Interaction
Functional Analysis of Interaction
A behavioral analysis of a concrete episode of conflict: what was the antecedent, what behavior followed, what were the consequences — for e…
IBCT
Hard and Soft Emotions Mapping
Hard and Soft Emotions Mapping
A visualization of the link between the surface (hard) and deep (soft) emotions of each partner. Helps the move from blame to understanding.
IBCT
IBCT Case Formulation
IBCT Case Formulation
A structured description of the couple's problem through three elements: theme (the difference), trap (polarization), and mutual trap. The f…
IBCT
IBCT Incident Analysis
IBCT Incident Analysis
A structured analysis of a concrete conflict through the lens of the case formulation: how the theme, the trap, and the mutual trap showed u…
IBCT
Pattern Naming
Pattern Naming
The couple, together with the therapist, gives a name to their conflict pattern. The name turns the abstract conflict into a concrete "third…
IBCT
Positive Aspects of Negative Behavior
Positive Aspects of Negative Behavior
Helping the couple see that the partner's "problematic" trait also has a positive side. His silence is not indifference, but caution. Her in…
IBCT
Theme Exploration
Theme Exploration
A deep inquiry into the fundamental difference (the theme) between the partners: where it comes from, how it was formed, why it matters to e…
IBCT
Trigger Sequence Analysis
Trigger Sequence Analysis
A detailed tracking of the chain: trigger → interpretation → soft emotion → hard reaction → partner's reaction → amplification. Helps to see…
IBCT
Unified Detachment
Unified Detachment
Helping the couple look at their conflict from the outside — as observers. The pattern gets a name and is discussed as a "third", not as the…
MMT
BASIC ID Assessment
BASIC ID Assessment
A structured Multimodal Therapy technique focused on basic id assessment. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach's …
MMT
Bridging
Bridging
A structured Multimodal Therapy technique focused on bridging. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach's model into …
MMT
Firing Order Tracking
Firing Order Tracking
A structured Multimodal Therapy technique focused on firing order tracking. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach'…
MMT
Second-Order BASIC ID
Second-Order BASIC ID
A structured Multimodal Therapy technique focused on second-order basic id. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach'…
MMT
Structural Profile
Structural Profile
A structured Multimodal Therapy technique focused on structural profile. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach's m…
Reality
Basic Needs Assessment
Basic Needs Assessment
A structured Reality Therapy technique focused on basic needs assessment. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach's …
Reality
Choice Awareness
Choice Awareness
A structured Reality Therapy technique focused on choice awareness. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach's model …
Reality
Quality World Exploration
Quality World Exploration
A structured Reality Therapy technique focused on quality world exploration. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach…
Reality
Self-Evaluation
Self-Evaluation
A structured Reality Therapy technique focused on self-evaluation. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach's model i…
Reality
Total Behavior Analysis
Total Behavior Analysis
A structured Reality Therapy technique focused on total behavior analysis. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach's…
Reality
WDEP System
WDEP System
A structured Reality Therapy technique focused on wdep system. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach's model into …
Reality
Wants Exploration
Wants Exploration
A structured Reality Therapy technique focused on wants exploration. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach's model…
Schema
Schema Diary
Schema Diary
A structured worksheet the client fills in between sessions when a schema activates. It has seven steps: situation → trigger → belief → emot…
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