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Emotion

50 techniques · 6 approaches
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
Centering Practice
Centering Practice
A structured Existential-Integrative Therapy technique focused on centering practice. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the…
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
Embodied Meditation
Embodied Meditation
A structured Existential-Integrative Therapy technique focused on embodied meditation. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate th…
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
Attending to Bodily Felt Sense
Attending to Bodily Felt Sense
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Clearing a Space
Clearing a Space
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Compassionate Self-Soothing
Compassionate Self-Soothing
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Core Maladaptive Emotion Schemes
Core Maladaptive Emotion Schemes
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Creating New Meaning
Creating New Meaning
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Emotion Transformation
Emotion Transformation
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Empathic Attunement
Empathic Attunement
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Empathic Conjecture
Empathic Conjecture
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Empathic Exploration
Empathic Exploration
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Empty Chair Dialogue
Empty Chair Dialogue
A classic experiential task for unfinished business with a significant other. The client speaks directly to an imagined person in the empty …
EFT
Experiential Focusing Prompts
Experiential Focusing Prompts
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Focusing (Gendlin)
Focusing (Gendlin)
A method for contacting an unclear bodily felt sense and letting words, images, and meaning emerge from it.
EFT
Meaning Creation
Meaning Creation
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Primary vs. Secondary Emotions
Primary vs. Secondary Emotions
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Problematic Reaction Marker → Systematic Evocative Unfolding
Problematic Reaction Marker → Systematic Evocative Unfolding
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Process Directives
Process Directives
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Self-Critical Split Marker → Two-Chair
Self-Critical Split Marker → Two-Chair
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Self-Interruption Marker → Two-Chair Enactment
Self-Interruption Marker → Two-Chair Enactment
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Symbolizing Emotion in Words
Symbolizing Emotion in Words
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Systematic Evocative Unfolding
Systematic Evocative Unfolding
A process-experiential method for exploring a problematic reaction by slowly reconstructing the episode and unfolding the emotional sequence…
EFT
Two-Chair Dialogue
Two-Chair Dialogue
A chair-work task for internal conflict, often between a critical voice and an experiencing self. The client moves between chairs so both po…
EFT
Two-Chair Enactment
Two-Chair Enactment
An active two-chair procedure used when one part interrupts, silences, or blocks another part. The aim is to make the interruption visible a…
EFT
Unclear Felt Sense Marker → Focusing
Unclear Felt Sense Marker → Focusing
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Unfinished Business Marker → Empty Chair
Unfinished Business Marker → Empty Chair
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
EFT
Vulnerability Marker → Compassionate Self-Soothing
Vulnerability Marker → Compassionate Self-Soothing
A Emotionally Focused Therapy technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived exper…
ERT
Contrasting
Contrasting
Holding the current distressing state and a desired value-based state simultaneously so that the tension between them becomes motivation for…
ERT
Decentering Practice
Decentering Practice
Developing a metacognitive position: observing thoughts and emotions from the side without merging with them. The client learns to say, 'I a…
ERT
Experiential Exposure (ERT)
Experiential Exposure (ERT)
Experiencing avoided emotions in session while using ERT skills: motivational awareness, decentering, sensory awareness, regulatory flexibil…
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.
ERT
Somatic Awareness of Emotions
Somatic Awareness of Emotions
Developing the ability to notice emotions through bodily sensations: where the emotion lives in the body, how it changes, and what it commun…
ERT
Values Clarification (ERT)
Values Clarification (ERT)
Clarifying what matters to the client so that emotions become signals for values-based engagement, not merely symptoms to reduce.
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
Imagery Techniques
Imagery Techniques
A structured Multimodal Therapy technique focused on imagery techniques. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach's m…
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
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
Sensation Awareness Work
Sensation Awareness Work
A structured Multimodal Therapy technique focused on sensation awareness work. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approa…
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
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
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…
UP
ARC (Antecedent-Response-Consequence) Analysis
ARC (Antecedent-Response-Consequence) Analysis
A structured analysis of an emotional episode into trigger, response, and consequence. It is the basic self-monitoring tool of the Unified P…
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