Experience — psychotherapy techniques

Attention to Experience

A Behavioral Activation technique focused on attention to experience. It helps the therapist and client move from depressive withdrawal, avo…

Deurzen

Sedimented Beliefs Exploration

"Sedimented" beliefs are notions accumulated over the course of life and hardened to the state of "taken for granted". They are no longer re…

Gestalt

Gestalt Experiment

A spontaneous, creative, unpredictable activity that therapist and client co-create in the session to explore something. Not a technique wit…

Gestalt

Here and Now

The main principle of Gestalt Therapy: bringing the past and the future into the present moment. Not "when I was a child, my mother.." but …

Schema

Behavioral Experiments

The client plans and carries out real behavior that contradicts their schema or coping mechanism. The aim is to gain direct experience that …

Yalom

Phenomenological Exploration (Spinelli)

A view of the pure, unique experience of the client, without theories, diagnoses, or interpretations. The instrument — epoché (bracketing): …

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