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74 techniques · 10 approaches
AEDP
Affect Deepening
Affect Deepening
Slowing down and deepening the emotional experience by focusing attention on bodily sensations and inviting the client to "give the feeling …
AEDP
Metatherapeutic Processing
Metatherapeutic Processing
Work in the 4th state: the client reflects on the therapeutic experience itself — what it meant to live through this together, how the relat…
AEDP
Portrayals / Experiential Processing
Portrayals / Experiential Processing
Inviting the client to imagine a significant other (a parent, a partner) and address them directly, expressing blocked feelings — in the pre…
AEDP
Somatic-Affective Tracking
Somatic-Affective Tracking
Continuous attention to the bodily markers of emotional change: tightening, expansion, warmth, cold, trembling — as a navigator of the thera…
AEDP
Tracking Transformational Markers
Tracking Transformational Markers
Systematic observation of the signs of transformation in session: bodily shifts, new meanings, change in the relationship to self and others…
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…
Bioenergetics
Bioenergetic Breathing
Bioenergetic Breathing
Deepened breathing through the mouth with emphasis on the full exhale. Reduction of control and the allowance of suppressed emotions through…
Bioenergetics
Body Reading
Body Reading
Observation and description of the client's bodily organization: posture, muscular tone, breath, distribution of energy. Creating a "body ma…
Bioenergetics
Character Structure Analysis
Character Structure Analysis
A joint exploration of the client's character structure: how the body is organized in response to early experience, which defenses have beco…
Bioenergetics
Eye Segment Work
Eye Segment Work
Exercises for unblocking the ocular segment: wide opening of the eyes, tracking an object, focus/defocus. Restoring a living gaze.
Bioenergetics
Lying Down Integration
Lying Down Integration
A closing practice: the client lies on the back, breathes freely, feels the back's contact with the floor. Integration of the bodily and emo…
Bioenergetics
Reaching Out
Reaching Out
Extending the arms with the expression of the need for contact. "Mom!", "Give!", "I want!". Work with the oral segment and the suppressed ne…
CBASP
Hotspot Identification
Hotspot Identification
Identifying the situations in which the stamps activate most strongly — the "hotspots". Knowing them, the client can prepare in advance.
CBASP
Impact Message
Impact Message
The therapist describes to the client the concrete effect their behavior has on the therapist. The goal is to help the client see: "My actio…
CBASP
Interpersonal Discrimination Exercise
Interpersonal Discrimination Exercise
Helping the client discriminate the therapist (and other people in the present) from significant others of the past. "I am not your mother. …
CBASP
Preoperational to Formal Operations Shift
Preoperational to Formal Operations Shift
Helping the client move from preoperational thinking (global attributions, egocentrism, disconnection) toward formal operational thinking (c…
CBASP
Significant Other History
Significant Other History
A structured elicitation of the people who most influenced the client, and of the "stamps" (causal conclusions) formed in those relationship…
CBASP
Situational Analysis: Elicitation Phase
Situational Analysis: Elicitation Phase
The first part of Situational Analysis — a structured gathering of information about a concrete situation: what happened, what was thought, …
CBASP
Situational Analysis: Remediation Phase
Situational Analysis: Remediation Phase
The second part of SA — an analysis: which interpretations are accurate and useful for the DO? Which behavior would have helped? What could …
CBASP
Transference Hypothesis Formulation
Transference Hypothesis Formulation
Based on the stamps from the significant-other list — a prediction of what the client will expect from the therapist. The hypothesis guides …
CBT
Activity Monitoring
Activity Monitoring
A tracking method for observing how daily behavior relates to mood, energy, sleep and stress. The client records activities across the day a…
Coherence
Counter-Active vs Transformational Change Assessment
Counter-Active vs Transformational Change Assessment
Diagnosing the type of change that has occurred: suppression of old knowledge by new (counteractive) or rewriting of the original knowledge …
Coherence
Daily Rereading Practice
Daily Rereading Practice
A home practice: the client rereads the pro-symptom-position card daily, tracking changes in the emotional response and the "still true?" ra…
Coherence
Imaginal Symptom Deprivation
Imaginal Symptom Deprivation
The client imagines that the symptom has completely vanished and explores the feelings that arise — in order to discover the hidden emotiona…
Coherence
Integration Experience
Integration Experience
The client lives the pro-symptom position fully — says it aloud, feels it in the body, holds it in awareness, accepting the paradox "I need …
Coherence
Overt Statement by Therapist
Overt Statement by Therapist
The therapist voices the presumed emotional knowledge of the client in the first person — the client checks whether it resonates and correct…
Coherence
Pro-Symptom Position Statement
Pro-Symptom Position Statement
A joint formulation with the client of a precise statement expressing the emotional knowledge behind the symptom, in the first person.
Coherence
Radical Inquiry into Symptom
Radical Inquiry into Symptom
A deep inquiry into the symptom from the stance of respect: not "why is this broken?" but "what is this made for? what problem does it solve…
Coherence
Root Memory Access
Root Memory Access
Finding the concrete experience in which the emotional knowledge behind the symptom was formed — through the affect bridge or direct inquiry…
Coherence
Sentence Completion
Sentence Completion
The therapist begins a sentence, the client finishes it spontaneously — to discover implicit emotional knowledge that the client cannot form…
Coherence
Somatic Tracking of Emotional Learning
Somatic Tracking of Emotional Learning
Attention to bodily sensations as markers of the activation of emotional knowledge — tightening, heaviness, trembling, warmth signal implici…
Coherence
Symptom Card
Symptom Card
Writing the discovered pro-symptom knowledge on a card, which the client rereads daily to maintain awareness between sessions.
Coherence
Transformation Verification
Transformation Verification
Checking the markers of transformational change: absence of effort, puzzlement, no return of the symptom, a sense of obviousness of the new …
Coherence
Working with Multiple Emotional Learnings
Working with Multiple Emotional Learnings
Exploring the situation in which several emotional learnings stand behind one symptom — each requiring its own cycle of discovery and recons…
Gottman
Accepting Influence
Accepting Influence
Training in the skill of accepting the partner's viewpoint and influence instead of resistance and control — a key predictor of stability.
Gottman
Aftermath of a Fight Processing
Aftermath of a Fight Processing
A structured discussion of the conflict after both partners have calmed down, to understand triggers and extract lessons.
Gottman
Creating Shared Meaning
Creating Shared Meaning
Exploring and strengthening the top floor of the House of Relationship: shared rituals, values, roles, and goals of the couple.
Gottman
Dreams Within Conflict
Dreams Within Conflict
Exploring the unspoken dreams and values that stand behind each partner's position in a gridlocked conflict.
Gottman
Emotional Bids Work
Emotional Bids Work
Training in recognizing small requests for emotional connection and in the skill of "turning toward the partner" instead of "turning away" o…
Gottman
Four Horsemen Assessment
Four Horsemen Assessment
Identifying the four destructive patterns of communication (criticism, contempt, defensiveness, stonewalling) and training the couple to rec…
Gottman
Love Map Exercise
Love Map Exercise
A structured inquiry into the partner's inner world through questions about dreams, fears, stressors, and preferences. The first floor of th…
Gottman
Oral History Interview
Oral History Interview
A structured interview about the history of the relationship that allows the couple's foundation to be assessed by HOW they tell their story…
Gottman
Perpetual Problem Dialogue
Perpetual Problem Dialogue
A structured conversation about a chronic couple problem with the aim not of solving it but of maintaining an open dialogue with humor and a…
Gottman
Positive Sentiment Override
Positive Sentiment Override
Work on having neutral and ambiguous actions of the partner interpreted positively rather than negatively.
Gottman
Three-Session Assessment
Three-Session Assessment
Structured diagnostics of the couple: joint interview → individual sessions → feedback with treatment plan.
Gottman
Trust Revival Method
Trust Revival Method
A structured process of restoring trust after a betrayal (affair, deception) through three phases: atonement, attunement, attachment.
Hakomi
Accessing Core Material
Accessing Core Material
Gently leading to the deep beliefs through mindfulness, tracking, and probes. Core material is the set of beliefs that organize the whole of…
Hakomi
Character Strategy Exploration
Character Strategy Exploration
A joint exploration of the habitual way of organizing experience: how the client automatically structures their world, what they notice, wha…
Hakomi
Contact Statements
Contact Statements
Verbal mirroring of the client's current experience. Not interpretation, but acknowledgment of what is there. Creates the sense of "I am see…
Hakomi
Immersion
Immersion
Deep staying with an emotional or bodily experience in mindfulness. Not analysis, not change — simply full presence with what is there.
Hakomi
Little Experiments
Little Experiments
Simple bodily or verbal experiments in mindfulness: try a posture, a movement, a phrase — and observe the reaction. A safe way of exploring.
Hakomi
Mindful Self-Study
Mindful Self-Study
A practice for the client between sessions: deliberate slowing down and observing one's reactions in everyday situations. Transferring the m…
Hakomi
Mindfulness Invitation
Mindfulness Invitation
Helping the client move out of ordinary conversation into a state of mindful inner observation. The key transition of a Hakomi session.
Hakomi
Probes
Probes
Small experiments in mindfulness: the therapist speaks a phrase or makes a gesture, the client observes the inner reaction. Probes surface c…
Hakomi
Taking Over
Taking Over
The therapist physically takes on an action the client is performing unconsciously (supporting the shoulders, pressing) so the client can re…
Hakomi
Tracking
Tracking
Continuous observation of the smallest bodily signals of the client: micro-movements, breath, tone of voice, facial expression. The foundati…
Morita
Arugamama Practice
Arugamama Practice
Accepting feelings as they are, without fighting or trying to change them. "I feel anxious — and that is fine. What can I do right now?"
Morita
Bed Rest Phase
Bed Rest Phase
A period of maximum reduction in activity: minimum stimulation, meeting oneself without escape. Classic inpatient or outpatient adaptation.
Morita
Desire for Life (Sei-no-Yokubo) Work
Desire for Life (Sei-no-Yokubo) Work
Uncovering and supporting the fundamental striving toward life — sei-no-yokubo. Perfectionism and anxiety are not enemies but distorted form…
Morita
Morita Diary
Morita Diary
A daily record: actions, feelings, observations of nature. The central tool — helps the client see the relation between actions and feelings…
Morita
Vicious Cycle Analysis
Vicious Cycle Analysis
Helping the client see the mechanism of toraware: how fixation on a symptom strengthens the symptom, creating a self-sustaining cycle of suf…
Sandplay
Body Awareness in Sandplay
Body Awareness in Sandplay
Integrating body awareness into sand work: attention to sensations in the hands, to breath, to posture. The body knows before the mind does.
Sandplay
Dream-Sandplay Connection
Dream-Sandplay Connection
Exploring the link between the client's dreams and their sand pictures. Dreams and Sandplay are two channels to the unconscious, which often…
Sandplay
Free Scene Creation
Free Scene Creation
The client creates any world in the sandbox without instructions. Full freedom of figure choice and composition. The therapist observes in s…
Sandplay
Post-Creation Dialogue
Post-Creation Dialogue
Gentle inquiry into the created world through open questions. Not interpretation, but an invitation for the client to speak about what they …
Sandplay
Process Observation
Process Observation
Systematic tracking of HOW the client creates — what they pick up first, where they place it, how they touch the sand, what emotions appear.…
Sandplay
Series Review
Series Review
A joint viewing of the photographs of all sand pictures in chronological order. The client sees the whole inner path — from the first pictur…
Sandplay
Symbol Amplification
Symbol Amplification
A Jungian technique for expanding a symbol: exploring its meanings through mythology, fairy tales, culture, personal associations. Not inter…
Sandplay
Water Element Work
Water Element Work
Adding water to the sandbox: creating rivers, lakes, seas. Water is a symbol of emotion, of the unconscious, of the maternal. Working with w…
WBT
Purpose in Life Exploration
Purpose in Life Exploration
Work on the purpose-in-life dimension: searching for meaning, clarifying values and direction, and planning meaningful action.
WBT
Ryff Six Dimensions Assessment
Ryff Six Dimensions Assessment
Systematic assessment of the six dimensions of psychological well-being (self-acceptance, positive relations, autonomy, environmental master…
WBT
Self-Acceptance Enhancement
Self-Acceptance Enhancement
Targeted work on the self-acceptance dimension: identifying self-criticism, revising one's attitude toward oneself, and developing self-comp…
WBT
Well-Being Diary
Well-Being Diary
Daily recording of moments of well-being, rated for intensity (0-100), together with the thoughts or beliefs that interrupted the positive e…
WBT
Well-Being Interruption Analysis
Well-Being Interruption Analysis
Cognitive work with the automatic thoughts that cut off positive experience: identification, classification by Ryff dimension, and restructu…
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