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Dissociation

13 techniques · 7 approaches
ACT
5 Senses / Grounding 5-4-3-2-1
5 Senses / Grounding 5-4-3-2-1
A quick grounding technique. The client names five things they see, four sounds they hear, three bodily sensations, two smells and one taste…
EMDR
Flash Technique
Flash Technique
A minimally invasive technique for clients who are not ready for full contact with a traumatic image. Instead of holding the image throughou…
EMDR
Resource Development and Installation (RDI)
Resource Development and Installation (RDI)
A process of identifying and strengthening positive images, thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations connected to the client's inner resour…
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…
Gestalt
Presentification
Presentification
A specific technique for moving the narration of the past into the present tense. The client says not "I was scared" but "I am scared". Not …
IFS
Direct Access
Direct Access
Direct access is a technique in which the therapist speaks straight to a part of the client rather than through the client's Self. Used when…
IFS
Inviting the Part
Inviting the Part
A gentle technique of first contact with a part that is not yet ready for dialogue or is actively avoiding it. The therapist helps the clien…
IFS
Working with a Firefighter Part
Working with a Firefighter Part
Firefighters are reactive Protectors who activate when the Exile has "broken through" and the pain is already being felt. The aim of a Firef…
Jung
Working with the Self-Care System (Kalsched) / Archetypal Defenses of the Personal Spirit
Working with the Self-Care System (Kalsched) / Archetypal Defenses of the Personal Spirit
Donald Kalsched extended the Jungian approach to work with early childhood trauma. His concept of the "self-care system" — archetypal psychi…
PE
Emotional Engagement During Imaginal Exposure
Emotional Engagement During Imaginal Exposure
A core PE technique in which the client revisits the trauma memory aloud in the present tense so that the fear structure can activate and up…
PE
Managing Dissociation During Exposure
Managing Dissociation During Exposure
A Prolonged Exposure technique for working with PTSD through structured activation of trauma reminders, reduction of avoidance, and careful …
Yalom
Phenomenological Exploration (Spinelli)
Phenomenological Exploration (Spinelli)
A view of the pure, unique experience of the client, without theories, diagnoses, or interpretations. The instrument — epoché (bracketing): …
Yalom
Searching (Bugental)
Searching (Bugental)
A joint movement from the story to the living experience. The story of events is a defense; the experience here-and-now is the place where h…
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