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Safety

21 techniques · 13 approaches
AEDP
Soft Bypass of Defenses
Soft Bypass of Defenses
Instead of confronting defenses (as in ISTDP) — creating such safety and contact that defenses become unnecessary and dissolve on their own.
AEDP
Undoing Aloneness
Undoing Aloneness
Creating emotional safety through the therapist's open presence: "You are not alone with this." The therapist explicitly expresses care, att…
CFT
Calm/Safe Place Imagery
Calm/Safe Place Imagery
A CFT imagery technique for building an inner "anchor" of safety and calm. Unlike the EMDR version, it includes multisensory filling (sounds…
CPT
Safety Issues Module
Safety Issues Module
Safety Issues Module is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client move from…
DBT
Validation (Levels 1–6)
Validation (Levels 1–6)
Six levels of validation — from basic listening to radical genuineness. Validation is the "wing of acceptance" in DBT. Without it, change st…
EFT for Couples
A.R.E. Check-In
A.R.E. Check-In
A regular check of the three attachment questions: accessibility, responsiveness, engagement. Helps the couple monitor the state of the emot…
EFT for Couples
Hold Me Tight Conversation
Hold Me Tight Conversation
A structured dialogue in which each partner expresses their deep attachment needs and asks for what they need. Based on Sue Johnson's book.
EMDR
Flash Technique
Flash Technique
A minimally invasive technique for clients who are not ready for full contact with a traumatic image. Instead of holding the image throughou…
Focusing
Keeping Company
Keeping Company
The therapist "keeps company" with what the client is experiencing — without trying to change, fix, improve. That alone is a powerful therap…
Gestalt
Gestalt Experiment
Gestalt Experiment
A spontaneous, creative, unpredictable activity that therapist and client co-create in the session to explore something. Not a technique wit…
Gestalt
Guided Fantasy
Guided Fantasy
The therapist leads the client through an imagined scene to activate feelings, resources, or inner conflicts. It differs from medical visual…
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…
Gestalt
Working with Resistance through Curiosity
Working with Resistance through Curiosity
Instead of overcoming resistance — curiosity toward it. "Resistance is information, it is a defense." The therapist comes with interest: "Wh…
MBT
Crisis Management in MBT
Crisis Management in MBT
A specific protocol for working with crisis situations within MBT. The crisis is seen as the result of a complete collapse of mentalization …
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…
PE
Crisis Management During PE
Crisis Management During PE
A Prolonged Exposure technique for working with PTSD through structured activation of trauma reminders, reduction of avoidance, and careful …
Sandplay
Safe Space Building
Safe Space Building
The client creates a safe place in the sandbox — a resource image they can return to. Especially valuable in trauma and anxiety work.
Schema
Limited Reparenting
Limited Reparenting
The therapist gives the client the emotional experience that was missed in childhood — care, validation, protection, respect — but within th…
Schema
Safe Place Imagery
Safe Place Imagery
The client creates and develops in detail the image of a place where they feel completely safe, protected, and calm. The place can be real (…
TF-CBT
Enhancing Personal Safety Skills
Enhancing Personal Safety Skills
A TF-CBT safety technique for strengthening protection, help-seeking, body boundaries, and future-oriented coping after trauma.
TF-CBT
Safety Planning / Crisis Safety Plan
Safety Planning / Crisis Safety Plan
A TF-CBT safety technique for strengthening protection, help-seeking, body boundaries, and future-oriented coping after trauma.
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