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80 techniques · 17 approaches
Bioenergetics
Basic Grounding
Basic Grounding
A stance with soft knees, feet parallel and shoulder-width apart. The sense of contact with the floor, of support, of stability. The foundat…
Bioenergetics
Jaw Release Work
Jaw Release Work
Techniques for unblocking the oral segment: massage of the masticatory muscles, opening the mouth, sounds, biting a towel. Release of suppre…
Bioenergetics
Kicking Exercise
Kicking Exercise
On the back, alternating kicks into the mattress with the legs. Release of the pelvic segment, work with suppressed protest and vitality.
Bioenergetics
Lowen's Bow (Arch)
Lowen's Bow (Arch)
A backward arch with fists at the lower back. Opening of the front surface of the body, activation of breath, stimulation of the energetic f…
Bioenergetics
Mattress Hitting
Mattress Hitting
An expressive technique: hitting a mattress or pillow with the fists or a tennis racquet. Release of suppressed anger, rage, and frustration…
Bioenergetics
Reaching Out
Reaching Out
Extending the arms with the expression of the need for contact. "Mom!", "Give!", "I want!". Work with the oral segment and the suppressed ne…
Bioenergetics
Stress Positions
Stress Positions
Holding the body in demanding poses in order to produce vibration, deepen breathing, and "break through" muscular blocks. Bend-over, backwar…
CBASP
Behavioral Rehearsal
Behavioral Rehearsal
Practicing new behavior in session before applying it in life. After the remediation phase of SA — "let's try out how this would look".
CBASP
CBASP Relapse Prevention
CBASP Relapse Prevention
Preparing for the end of therapy: updated stamps, mastered SA skills, a plan in case of worsening. Chronic depression can return — the clien…
CBASP
Generalization Training
Generalization Training
Helping the client transfer SA skills from therapy into everyday life. "I don't need a therapist to see the link — I can do it myself."
CBASP
Impact Message
Impact Message
The therapist describes to the client the concrete effect their behavior has on the therapist. The goal is to help the client see: "My actio…
CBASP
Preoperational to Formal Operations Shift
Preoperational to Formal Operations Shift
Helping the client move from preoperational thinking (global attributions, egocentrism, disconnection) toward formal operational thinking (c…
CBASP
Situational Analysis: Elicitation Phase
Situational Analysis: Elicitation Phase
The first part of Situational Analysis — a structured gathering of information about a concrete situation: what happened, what was thought, …
CBASP
Situational Analysis: Remediation Phase
Situational Analysis: Remediation Phase
The second part of SA — an analysis: which interpretations are accurate and useful for the DO? Which behavior would have helped? What could …
CBASP
Successful Situation Analysis
Successful Situation Analysis
A Situational Analysis of a situation where AO = DO. Helping the client see: when they acted differently — the outcome was different. "My ac…
Coherence
Experiential Disconfirmation
Experiential Disconfirmation
Finding and creating real life experience that fundamentally diverges from the activated emotional knowledge — in order to launch reconsolid…
DBT
Chain Analysis / Behavioral Chain Analysis
Chain Analysis / Behavioral Chain Analysis
A detailed walk-through of a concrete problem behavior along the entire chain: vulnerability → prompting event → thoughts → emotions → sensa…
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
Integrative Technique Use
Integrative Technique Use
A structured Existential-Integrative Therapy technique focused on integrative technique use. It gives the therapist a concrete way to transl…
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
De-escalation Signal
De-escalation Signal
The couple builds a shared signal (a word, a gesture) that means: "Our cycle has launched. Let us stop". Helps to interrupt the negative dan…
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
Progress Review and Relapse Prevention
Progress Review and Relapse Prevention
A structured session of summing up: what has changed, what new dance has been learned, what to do when the old cycle returns.
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.
ERT
Regulatory Flexibility Training
Regulatory Flexibility Training
Training the client to choose an emotion-regulation strategy according to context: when to solve the problem, when to accept, when to reappr…
Gottman
5:1 Ratio Building
5:1 Ratio Building
A deliberate increase in positive interactions within the couple to reach a steady ratio of five positives to one negative.
Gottman
Couples Homework Assignments
Couples Homework Assignments
Selecting and assigning concrete paired exercises between sessions: rituals, love map, gratitude, tracking bids.
Gottman
Emotional Bids Work
Emotional Bids Work
Training in recognizing small requests for emotional connection and in the skill of "turning toward the partner" instead of "turning away" o…
Gottman
Flooding Management
Flooding Management
Training in recognizing physiological flooding (pulse > 100) and in the skill of taking a break with a mandatory return to the conversation.
Gottman
Four Horsemen Assessment
Four Horsemen Assessment
Identifying the four destructive patterns of communication (criticism, contempt, defensiveness, stonewalling) and training the couple to rec…
Gottman
Repair Attempts
Repair Attempts
Teaching the skill of stopping conflict escalation through repair actions, and the skill of accepting repair attempts from the partner.
Gottman
Rituals of Connection
Rituals of Connection
Creating and sustaining everyday rituals that strengthen the emotional connection: greeting, farewell, meals, weekends.
Hakomi
Character Strategy Exploration
Character Strategy Exploration
A joint exploration of the habitual way of organizing experience: how the client automatically structures their world, what they notice, wha…
Hakomi
Little Experiments
Little Experiments
Simple bodily or verbal experiments in mindfulness: try a posture, a movement, a phrase — and observe the reaction. A safe way of exploring.
Hakomi
Mindful Self-Study
Mindful Self-Study
A practice for the client between sessions: deliberate slowing down and observing one's reactions in everyday situations. Transferring the m…
Hakomi
Somatic Unwinding
Somatic Unwinding
Following spontaneous bodily movements of the client in mindfulness. The body "knows" how to resolve tension — it only needs space.
IBCT
Behavior Exchange
Behavior Exchange
Each partner builds a list of concrete acts of care that the other could do. The acts are chosen voluntarily, without coercion or "trade of …
IBCT
Faking Negative Behavior
Faking Negative Behavior
The partner deliberately reproduces the "problem" behavior at home by agreement. This lowers the trigger's emotional charge and gives both t…
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
Problem-Solving Training
Problem-Solving Training
A step-by-step protocol for joint solving of concrete problems: from defining the problem through generating solutions to the agreement and …
IBCT
Relapse Prevention Plan
Relapse Prevention Plan
Building a joint plan for the return of the pattern: warning signs, agreements, plan of action. Normalization: the pattern will return — and…
IBCT
Self-Care When Facing the Pattern
Self-Care When Facing the Pattern
Building a concrete action plan for when the trap activates again. Instead of trying to change the partner — caring for the self in a hard m…
IBCT
Speaker-Listener Communication Training
Speaker-Listener Communication Training
Structured practice of communication with clear roles: the speaker expresses feelings from "I", the listener paraphrases and validates. Buil…
IBCT
Tolerance Through Role-Play
Tolerance Through Role-Play
The partner deliberately reproduces the "problem" behavior in session under controlled conditions. This lowers the second partner's reactivi…
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…
MBCT
Mood and Activity Connection / Nourishing vs Depleting Activities
Mood and Activity Connection / Nourishing vs Depleting Activities
The client explores the link between their activity and mood through a week of observation and analysis, then builds a personal list of "nou…
MBCT
Pleasant Events Calendar
Pleasant Events Calendar
Over the course of one week the client records each day one pleasant event: what happened, what thoughts, feelings, and body sensations were…
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
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
Interpersonal Skills Training
Interpersonal Skills Training
A structured Multimodal Therapy technique focused on interpersonal skills training. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the a…
MMT
Modality-Specific Intervention
Modality-Specific Intervention
A structured Multimodal Therapy technique focused on modality-specific intervention. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the …
MMT
Relapse Prevention (MMT)
Relapse Prevention (MMT)
A structured Multimodal Therapy technique focused on relapse prevention (mmt). It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approa…
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…
Morita
Attention Redirection
Attention Redirection
Shifting the focus of attention from symptoms onto purposeful action. Breaking the vicious cycle: attention to symptom → amplification → eve…
Morita
Bed Rest Phase
Bed Rest Phase
A period of maximum reduction in activity: minimum stimulation, meeting oneself without escape. Classic inpatient or outpatient adaptation.
Morita
Constructive Living
Constructive Living
Integration of Morita principles into everyday life: focus on actions, acceptance of feelings, gratitude toward the world. Adaptation by Dav…
Morita
Gradual Activity Expansion
Gradual Activity Expansion
A step-by-step increase in the volume and complexity of activity: from light work to full life. Each step — in spite of feelings, not waitin…
Morita
Morita Diary
Morita Diary
A daily record: actions, feelings, observations of nature. The central tool — helps the client see the relation between actions and feelings…
Morita
Purposeful Action
Purposeful Action
Action grounded in necessity and values rather than in mood. "Do what is needed — regardless of what you feel".
Reality
Action Planning (SAMIC³)
Action Planning (SAMIC³)
A structured Reality Therapy technique focused on action planning (samic³). It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach'…
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
Caring Habits Practice
Caring Habits Practice
A structured Reality Therapy technique focused on caring habits practice. 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
No-Excuses Commitment
No-Excuses Commitment
A structured Reality Therapy technique focused on no-excuses commitment. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach's m…
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 …
Sandplay
Process Observation
Process Observation
Systematic tracking of HOW the client creates — what they pick up first, where they place it, how they touch the sand, what emotions appear.…
Sandplay
Sandplay with Children
Sandplay with Children
Adaptation of Sandplay for children: fewer words, more play, the child's native language. The therapist is the safe adult who "sees" the chi…
UP
Countering Emotion-Driven Behaviors
Countering Emotion-Driven Behaviors
Identifying emotion-driven behaviors and deliberately choosing actions that move against avoidance, withdrawal, checking, reassurance-seekin…
UP
Three-Component Monitoring
Three-Component Monitoring
Daily practice of separating emotional reactions into three components: thoughts, bodily sensations, and behavior.
WBT
Autonomy Building
Autonomy Building
Strengthening the autonomy dimension: moving from dependence on others' opinions toward an internal locus of control through the practice of…
WBT
Environmental Mastery Enhancement
Environmental Mastery Enhancement
Strengthening the sense of control over daily life through small steps of organizing the environment, planning, and achieving concrete resul…
WBT
Personal Growth Activation
Personal Growth Activation
Work on the personal-growth dimension: stepping out of stagnation through new experience, learning, and gentle challenge to the comfort zone…
WBT
Positive Relations Enhancement
Positive Relations Enhancement
Work on the positive-relations dimension: deepening connections, building intimacy skills, and developing the capacity to receive and offer …
WBT
Purpose in Life Exploration
Purpose in Life Exploration
Work on the purpose-in-life dimension: searching for meaning, clarifying values and direction, and planning meaningful action.
WBT
Relapse Prevention (WBT)
Relapse Prevention (WBT)
Building a plan to sustain well-being after therapy ends: reviewing progress, spotting early warning signs, and coding self-help strategies.
WBT
Ryff Six Dimensions Assessment
Ryff Six Dimensions Assessment
Systematic assessment of the six dimensions of psychological well-being (self-acceptance, positive relations, autonomy, environmental master…
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