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18 techniques · 10 approaches
AEDP
Soft Bypass of Defenses
Soft Bypass of Defenses
Instead of confronting defenses (as in ISTDP) — creating such safety and contact that defenses become unnecessary and dissolve on their own.
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…
Bioenergetics
Lying Down Integration
Lying Down Integration
A closing practice: the client lies on the back, breathes freely, feels the back's contact with the floor. Integration of the bodily and emo…
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…
CoLeC
Generous Listening
Generous Listening
Generous listening is listening "with the best intent": hearing what the person wants to say, not what you expect to hear. It is an active p…
CoLeC
Withness Practices
Withness Practices
"Withness" — the central metaphor of Anderson's stance. It is a quality of presence in which the therapist literally "is with" the client in…
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
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
Withdrawer Re-engagement
Withdrawer Re-engagement
Helping the withdrawing partner voice their attachment needs and the fears that hide behind silence and withdrawal.
Focusing
Experiential Listening
Experiential Listening
The basic skill of an FOT therapist: listening not to words and not even to emotions, but to the underlying felt sense — the whole, not-yet-…
Focusing
Keeping Company
Keeping Company
The therapist "keeps company" with what the client is experiencing — without trying to change, fix, improve. That alone is a powerful therap…
Gestalt
Dialogical Contact (I-Thou)
Dialogical Contact (I-Thou)
The I-Thou meeting after Martin Buber — the philosophical ground of relational Gestalt Therapy. Not I as the subject looking at the client a…
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…
Hakomi
Contact Statements
Contact Statements
Verbal mirroring of the client's current experience. Not interpretation, but acknowledgment of what is there. Creates the sense of "I am see…
Sandplay
Sand Work Without Figures
Sand Work Without Figures
The client works only with sand — digging, smoothing, shaping, creating a landscape. Tactile contact with sand regulates the nervous system …
Yalom
Here-and-Now Focus
Here-and-Now Focus
Speak not about something but about what is happening right now between therapist and client in the space of the relationship. The client's …
Yalom
Therapeutic Presence
Therapeutic Presence
The full engagement of the therapist here and now: letting go of plans, techniques, ready answers — and genuine meeting with the person. Bug…
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