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Empathy

10 techniques · 8 approaches
DBT
GIVE (Gentle, Interested, Validate, Easy manner)
GIVE (Gentle, Interested, Validate, Easy manner)
A four-step skill for keeping and strengthening the relationship. The focus is on connection: when the relationship matters more than the co…
EFT for Couples
Evocative Responding
Evocative Responding
The therapist reflects the partner's emotional experience with an emphasis on primary emotions, helping to deepen and widen awareness. Not i…
Gestalt
Inclusion
Inclusion
The therapist's capacity to be fully present with the client — to enter their world without losing oneself. This is not "I know how you feel…
Gottman
Love Map Exercise
Love Map Exercise
A structured inquiry into the partner's inner world through questions about dreams, fears, stressors, and preferences. The first floor of th…
IBCT
Empathic Joining
Empathic Joining
Helping the partners move from hard emotions (anger, criticism) to soft ones (pain, fear, loneliness). When one expresses vulnerability and …
MBSR
Mindful Communication / Interpersonal Mindfulness
Mindful Communication / Interpersonal Mindfulness
A week-6 MBSR block devoted to presence in conversation. Kabat-Zinn saw communication as a field of practice: most people "listen" while thi…
MBT
Basic Empathy
Basic Empathy
The starting level of MBT interventions — the active, deliberate expression of understanding of the client's experience. Unlike empathic val…
MBT
Empathic Validation
Empathic Validation
A baseline first-level MBT intervention in which the therapist acknowledges and confirms the client's emotional experience as understandable…
MI
Expressing Empathy
Expressing Empathy
One of the four original principles of MI. Empathy in MI is the accurate understanding of the client's inner experience, conveyed through re…
MI
Reflective Listening (OARS)
Reflective Listening (OARS)
The fundamental MI skill — the expression of empathy through reflection. The therapist forms a hypothesis about what the client meant, and v…
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