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9 techniques · 8 approaches
Adlerian
Paradoxical Intention
Paradoxical Intention
The client is invited to deliberately intensify or bring on the symptom. When a person tries to do on purpose what they fear, fear loses its…
Adlerian
Push Button Technique
Push Button Technique
The client recalls a pleasant memory, notices their feelings, then switches to an unpleasant one — and notices the feelings again. The techn…
BRIEF
Prediction Task
Prediction Task
The client predicts each evening whether the next day will be better or worse, often on a 0-10 scale. The following evening they compare the…
CPT
Power/Control Issues Module
Power/Control Issues Module
Power/Control Issues Module is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client mo…
EMDR
Container Exercise
Container Exercise
The client visualizes a sturdy, securely sealable container — a safe, a chest, a locked room — and mentally places into it the disturbing th…
Gestalt
Creative Indifference
Creative Indifference
A state of wise passivity: I allow life, I do not fight, I do not strain, I am simply present. I let myself, the other, the situation BE. Af…
IFS
Working with a Manager Part
Working with a Manager Part
Managers are proactive Protectors who try to prevent an exile's pain from arising. They work constantly: they criticize, control, plan, plea…
MCT
Controlled Worry Experiment
Controlled Worry Experiment
The client is asked to deliberately worry as intensely as possible for 5–10 minutes, and then to stop. The experiment demonstrates: worry is…
Yalom
Paradoxical Intention
Paradoxical Intention
The client deliberately intensifies the feared symptom instead of avoiding it: in panic — "I'll try to feel the maximum fear"; in insomnia —…
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