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12 techniques · 7 approaches
DBT
IMPROVE the Moment
IMPROVE the Moment
A seven-element set of techniques for improving the subjective experience of the present moment without changing the situation itself. When …
DBT
Radical Acceptance
Radical Acceptance
Full acknowledgment and the end of the fight with what cannot be changed: the past, a loss, others' actions, uncontrollable circumstances. I…
Deurzen
Boundary Situations Work
Boundary Situations Work
The concept is borrowed from Jaspers and integrated by van Deurzen into the existential approach. Boundary situations (Grenzsituationen) are…
Deurzen
Working with Mortality and Finitude
Working with Mortality and Finitude
In the physical dimension (Umwelt), death holds a central place. Van Deurzen sees the awareness of mortality not as a pathology but as a nec…
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…
Gestalt
Empty Chair Technique
Empty Chair Technique
The client speaks to an imagined person, a part of themselves, or an image, seated on the empty chair across from them. The therapist may as…
Gestalt
Unfinished Business
Unfinished Business
An unfinished business is an uncompleted exchange that keeps demanding energy in the present. Words that were not said, anger that was not e…
IPT
Grief Work
Grief Work
Grief Work is an IPT intervention used to connect depressive symptoms with current interpersonal events and to turn that connection into con…
Längle
Mourning Steps / Working with Loss
Mourning Steps / Working with Loss
A structured method for working with losses — from the death of someone close to the loss of a role, of health, of a dream. Part of the meth…
Längle
Mourning Steps / Working with Loss
Mourning Steps / Working with Loss
A structured method for working with losses — from the death of someone close to the loss of a role, of health, of a dream. Part of the meth…
Yalom
Attitude Modulation
Attitude Modulation
When an event is unchangeable — illness, loss, the death of a loved one, disability — the work is aimed at changing the attitude toward it. …
Yalom
Confronting Limit Situations (Jaspers)
Confronting Limit Situations (Jaspers)
A meeting with limit situations — death, suffering, guilt, struggle — which cannot be overcome or corrected. Jaspers shows that precisely in…
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