Isolation — psychotherapy techniques

Loving Kindness / Compassionate Wishes Practice (Metta)

An adaptation of the Buddhist practice of metta in the CFT version of Gilbert & Choden. The three flows of compassion are used together with…

CFT

Receiving Compassion from Others

A specific CFT practice aimed at developing the capacity to receive care, warmth, and support from others. Many clients can give compassion …

CPT

Trust Issues Module

Trust Issues Module is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client move from …

IPT

Interpersonal Deficits Work

Interpersonal Deficits Work is an IPT intervention used to connect depressive symptoms with current interpersonal events and to turn that co…

MBSR

Loving-Kindness Meditation / Metta

A meditation in which the participant in turn directs wishes of well-being: first to the self, then to close ones, neutral people, difficult…

Yalom

Existential Isolation

Distinguishing existential isolation (I am fundamentally alone — no one will live my death for me, no one will be inside me) from interperso…

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