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Guilt

18 techniques · 11 approaches
ACT
RAIN Technique
RAIN Technique (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Non-identification)
A four-step protocol for accepting difficult emotions: Recognize, Allow, Investigate and Non-identification. Developed in mindfulness contex…
CBT
Evidence For and Against
Evidence For and Against
A systematic two-column collection of facts for and against an automatic thought. The task is not intuition or reassurance, but real evidenc…
CBT
Reattribution
Reattribution
A technique for reducing personalization and excessive guilt. The client explores all factors that contributed to an event instead of assign…
CBT
Responsibility Pie
Responsibility Pie
A visual method for distributing responsibility across all contributing factors. The client first estimates their own responsibility, then l…
DBT
Non-judgmentally
Non-judgmentally
Building the capacity to see facts without moral labels: not "I am terrible" but "I was late"; not "this is a catastrophe" but "this happene…
EMDR
Grief Protocol
Grief Protocol
A specialized EMDR protocol for processing grief and loss. Unlike the standard protocol, it does not aim to "erase" the pain — the goal is t…
Frankl
Tragic Triad Work
Tragic Triad Work
Work with the three unavoidable tragic realities: suffering, guilt, and death. The technique does not remove these realities but helps find …
IFS
IFS with Shame and Guilt
IFS with Shame and Guilt
Martha Sweezy describes the specifics of working with shame and guilt in IFS. Shame is the burden of an Exile ("I am bad through and through…
IFS
Unburdening
Unburdening
The central transforming technique of IFS. After the Exile has been seen, given a corrective experience, and retrieved into the present, it …
Längle
Regretting and Forgiving Steps
Regretting and Forgiving Steps
A special method for working with guilt, resentment, regret. Längle distinguishes forgiveness of another and forgiveness of oneself (regret)…
Längle
Working with Guilt and Conscience
Working with Guilt and Conscience
In existential analysis, conscience is the phenomenological organ of perceiving "what is right for me in this situation". Längle distinguish…
PE
Hot Spot Imaginal Exposure and Processing
Hot Spot Imaginal Exposure and Processing
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
Post-Exposure Processing / Discussion
Post-Exposure Processing / Discussion
A Prolonged Exposure technique for working with PTSD through structured activation of trauma reminders, reduction of avoidance, and careful …
PE
Trauma-Related Guilt and Self-Blame Processing
Trauma-Related Guilt and Self-Blame Processing
A Prolonged Exposure technique for working with PTSD through structured activation of trauma reminders, reduction of avoidance, and careful …
Schema
Reattribution
Reattribution
The client reinterprets a childhood event, shifting the blame and responsibility from themselves to the real causes — the parent's behavior,…
TF-CBT
Cognitive Processing of Maladaptive Trauma Cognitions
Cognitive Processing of Maladaptive Trauma Cognitions
A TF-CBT technique for helping a child or adolescent process trauma with developmentally appropriate skills, caregiver support, and gradual …
TF-CBT
Managing Caregiver's Own PTSD/Distress Reactions
Managing Caregiver's Own PTSD/Distress Reactions
A TF-CBT caregiver technique that prepares the nonoffending adult to understand trauma symptoms, respond supportively, and become a safe res…
Yalom
Working with Guilt (Yalom / Frankl)
Working with Guilt (Yalom / Frankl)
Distinguishing neurotic guilt (irrational, not tied to a real violation of values — the constant feeling that "I am not good enough") from e…
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