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96 techniques · 18 approaches
AEDP
Completing the Affective Wave
Completing the Affective Wave
Accompanying the client through a full emotional cycle: rising → peak → subsiding → opening, without interrupting and without trying to "res…
AEDP
Healing Affects Recognition
Healing Affects Recognition
The deliberate noticing and highlighting of positive emotions that arise after the full experiencing of core affect: gratitude, tenderness, …
BA
Skills Training
Skills Training
A Behavioral Activation technique focused on skills training. It helps the therapist and client move from depressive withdrawal, avoidance, …
Bioenergetics
Basic Grounding
Basic Grounding
A stance with soft knees, feet parallel and shoulder-width apart. The sense of contact with the floor, of support, of stability. The foundat…
Bioenergetics
Bioenergetic Stool Breathing
Bioenergetic Stool Breathing
Lying on the back over a special stool (or a folded blanket). Opening the chest and diaphragm, deepening the breath through passive stretch.
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
Jaw Release Work
Jaw Release Work
Techniques for unblocking the oral segment: massage of the masticatory muscles, opening the mouth, sounds, biting a towel. Release of suppre…
Bioenergetics
Kicking Exercise
Kicking Exercise
On the back, alternating kicks into the mattress with the legs. Release of the pelvic segment, work with suppressed protest and vitality.
Bioenergetics
Lowen's Bow (Arch)
Lowen's Bow (Arch)
A backward arch with fists at the lower back. Opening of the front surface of the body, activation of breath, stimulation of the energetic f…
Bioenergetics
Mattress Hitting
Mattress Hitting
An expressive technique: hitting a mattress or pillow with the fists or a tennis racquet. Release of suppressed anger, rage, and frustration…
Bioenergetics
Stress Positions
Stress Positions
Holding the body in demanding poses in order to produce vibration, deepen breathing, and "break through" muscular blocks. Bend-over, backwar…
Bioenergetics
Vibration Work
Vibration Work
Deliberate evocation and sustaining of natural bodily vibration through stress positions. Vibration is a sign of a living body and of a free…
CBASP
Behavioral Rehearsal
Behavioral Rehearsal
Practicing new behavior in session before applying it in life. After the remediation phase of SA — "let's try out how this would look".
CBASP
CBASP Relapse Prevention
CBASP Relapse Prevention
Preparing for the end of therapy: updated stamps, mastered SA skills, a plan in case of worsening. Chronic depression can return — the clien…
CBASP
Causal Theory Closure Revision
Causal Theory Closure Revision
Helping the client revise the deep conclusions about self and world based on past experience. Not "replacing negative thoughts" but updating…
CBASP
Disciplined Personal Involvement
Disciplined Personal Involvement
The therapist disciplinedly uses their authentic reactions as an instrument: showing the client how their behavior affects another person.
CBASP
Generalization Training
Generalization Training
Helping the client transfer SA skills from therapy into everyday life. "I don't need a therapist to see the link — I can do it myself."
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
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
Successful Situation Analysis
Successful Situation Analysis
A Situational Analysis of a situation where AO = DO. Helping the client see: when they acted differently — the outcome was different. "My ac…
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
Experiential Disconfirmation
Experiential Disconfirmation
Finding and creating real life experience that fundamentally diverges from the activated emotional knowledge — in order to launch reconsolid…
Coherence
Symptom Card
Symptom Card
Writing the discovered pro-symptom knowledge on a card, which the client rereads daily to maintain awareness between sessions.
E-I Therapy
Centering Practice
Centering Practice
A structured Existential-Integrative Therapy technique focused on centering practice. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the…
E-I Therapy
Embodied Meditation
Embodied Meditation
A structured Existential-Integrative Therapy technique focused on embodied meditation. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate th…
E-I Therapy
Integrative Technique Use
Integrative Technique Use
A structured Existential-Integrative Therapy technique focused on integrative technique use. It gives the therapist a concrete way to transl…
E-I Therapy
Polarity Work
Polarity Work
A structured Existential-Integrative Therapy technique focused on polarity work. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the appr…
EFT for Couples
Blamer Softening
Blamer Softening
The culmination of EFT: helping the pursuing partner move from demands and criticism to a request for closeness from a position of vulnerabi…
EFT for Couples
Choreographing Engaged Contact
Choreographing Engaged Contact
The therapist guides the creation of a new experience of interaction in real time: helps one to express a need, the other to respond, both —…
EFT for Couples
Creating a New Relationship Narrative
Creating a New Relationship Narrative
Helping the couple tell the story of their relationship anew — including the crisis and the way through it. The new narrative integrates dif…
EFT for Couples
De-escalation Signal
De-escalation Signal
The couple builds a shared signal (a word, a gesture) that means: "Our cycle has launched. Let us stop". Helps to interrupt the negative dan…
EFT for Couples
Emotion Validation
Emotion Validation
Teaching partners the skill of validation: acknowledging the other's feelings as understandable and well-grounded, even if you do not agree …
EFT for Couples
Enactment
Enactment
The therapist asks one partner to turn to the other and say something directly — from the primary emotion, not through the therapist. Create…
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.
EFT for Couples
Live Cycle Tracking
Live Cycle Tracking
When the negative cycle appears in session, the therapist stops the process and names it: "Here it is, your dance. Let us slow down and look…
EFT for Couples
Progress Review and Relapse Prevention
Progress Review and Relapse Prevention
A structured session of summing up: what has changed, what new dance has been learned, what to do when the old cycle returns.
ERT
Regulatory Flexibility Training
Regulatory Flexibility Training
Training the client to choose an emotion-regulation strategy according to context: when to solve the problem, when to accept, when to reappr…
ERT
Relapse Prevention (ERT)
Relapse Prevention (ERT)
Consolidating ERT skills and building a personal plan for recognizing early warning signs: rumination, worry, avoidance, emotional flooding,…
Gottman
5:1 Ratio Building
5:1 Ratio Building
A deliberate increase in positive interactions within the couple to reach a steady ratio of five positives to one negative.
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
Couples Homework Assignments
Couples Homework Assignments
Selecting and assigning concrete paired exercises between sessions: rituals, love map, gratitude, tracking bids.
Gottman
Flooding Management
Flooding Management
Training in recognizing physiological flooding (pulse > 100) and in the skill of taking a break with a mandatory return to the conversation.
Gottman
Fondness and Admiration System
Fondness and Admiration System
Restoring and strengthening the culture of respect, gratitude, and admiration in the couple — the second floor of the Sound Relationship Hou…
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
Repair Attempts
Repair Attempts
Teaching the skill of stopping conflict escalation through repair actions, and the skill of accepting repair attempts from the partner.
Gottman
Softened Startup
Softened Startup
Teaching the formula for starting a difficult conversation without criticism: "I feel… when… and I need…" instead of "You always / never…".
Gottman
Stress-Reducing Conversation
Stress-Reducing Conversation
A daily 20-minute conversation between partners about external stress (not about the relationship) — for maintaining the emotional connectio…
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
Nourishment
Nourishment
Providing the "missing experience" — what was absent at the moment the core belief was formed. Through words, gestures, touch, in a state of…
Hakomi
Somatic Unwinding
Somatic Unwinding
Following spontaneous bodily movements of the client in mindfulness. The body "knows" how to resolve tension — it only needs space.
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…
IBCT
Behavior Exchange
Behavior Exchange
Each partner builds a list of concrete acts of care that the other could do. The acts are chosen voluntarily, without coercion or "trade of …
IBCT
Faking Negative Behavior
Faking Negative Behavior
The partner deliberately reproduces the "problem" behavior at home by agreement. This lowers the trigger's emotional charge and gives both t…
IBCT
Functional Analysis of Interaction
Functional Analysis of Interaction
A behavioral analysis of a concrete episode of conflict: what was the antecedent, what behavior followed, what were the consequences — for e…
IBCT
Pattern Naming
Pattern Naming
The couple, together with the therapist, gives a name to their conflict pattern. The name turns the abstract conflict into a concrete "third…
IBCT
Problem-Solving Training
Problem-Solving Training
A step-by-step protocol for joint solving of concrete problems: from defining the problem through generating solutions to the agreement and …
IBCT
Relapse Prevention Plan
Relapse Prevention Plan
Building a joint plan for the return of the pattern: warning signs, agreements, plan of action. Normalization: the pattern will return — and…
IBCT
Self-Care When Facing the Pattern
Self-Care When Facing the Pattern
Building a concrete action plan for when the trap activates again. Instead of trying to change the partner — caring for the self in a hard m…
IBCT
Speaker-Listener Communication Training
Speaker-Listener Communication Training
Structured practice of communication with clear roles: the speaker expresses feelings from "I", the listener paraphrases and validates. Buil…
IBCT
Tolerance Through Role-Play
Tolerance Through Role-Play
The partner deliberately reproduces the "problem" behavior in session under controlled conditions. This lowers the second partner's reactivi…
IBCT
Trigger Sequence Analysis
Trigger Sequence Analysis
A detailed tracking of the chain: trigger → interpretation → soft emotion → hard reaction → partner's reaction → amplification. Helps to see…
IBCT
Unified Detachment
Unified Detachment
Helping the couple look at their conflict from the outside — as observers. The pattern gets a name and is discussed as a "third", not as the…
IPT
Directive Techniques
Directive Techniques
Directive Techniques is an IPT intervention used to connect depressive symptoms with current interpersonal events and to turn that connectio…
IPT
Role Play
Role Play
Role Play is an IPT intervention used to connect depressive symptoms with current interpersonal events and to turn that connection into conc…
IPT
Social Skills Training
Social Skills Training
Social Skills Training is an IPT intervention used to connect depressive symptoms with current interpersonal events and to turn that connect…
MMT
Bridging
Bridging
A structured Multimodal Therapy technique focused on bridging. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach's model into …
MMT
Imagery Techniques
Imagery Techniques
A structured Multimodal Therapy technique focused on imagery techniques. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach's m…
MMT
Interpersonal Skills Training
Interpersonal Skills Training
A structured Multimodal Therapy technique focused on interpersonal skills training. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the a…
MMT
Modality-Specific Intervention
Modality-Specific Intervention
A structured Multimodal Therapy technique focused on modality-specific intervention. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the …
MMT
Relapse Prevention (MMT)
Relapse Prevention (MMT)
A structured Multimodal Therapy technique focused on relapse prevention (mmt). It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approa…
MMT
Sensation Awareness Work
Sensation Awareness Work
A structured Multimodal Therapy technique focused on sensation awareness work. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approa…
Morita
Attention Redirection
Attention Redirection
Shifting the focus of attention from symptoms onto purposeful action. Breaking the vicious cycle: attention to symptom → amplification → eve…
Morita
Constructive Living
Constructive Living
Integration of Morita principles into everyday life: focus on actions, acceptance of feelings, gratitude toward the world. Adaptation by Dav…
Morita
Gradual Activity Expansion
Gradual Activity Expansion
A step-by-step increase in the volume and complexity of activity: from light work to full life. Each step — in spite of feelings, not waitin…
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
Nature Contact
Nature Contact
Deliberate attention to nature: weather, trees, sky, sounds. Expanding attention beyond one's own symptoms. The therapeutic role of nature i…
Morita
Purposeful Action
Purposeful Action
Action grounded in necessity and values rather than in mood. "Do what is needed — regardless of what you feel".
REBT
Skill Training / Assertiveness Training
Skill Training / Assertiveness Training
REBT works at two levels of problem: the philosophical (IBs) and the practical (skill deficit). When the problem is partly caused by a real …
Reality
Action Planning (SAMIC³)
Action Planning (SAMIC³)
A structured Reality Therapy technique focused on action planning (samic³). It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach'…
Reality
Caring Habits Practice
Caring Habits Practice
A structured Reality Therapy technique focused on caring habits practice. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach's …
Reality
Choice Awareness
Choice Awareness
A structured Reality Therapy technique focused on choice awareness. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach's model …
Reality
No-Excuses Commitment
No-Excuses Commitment
A structured Reality Therapy technique focused on no-excuses commitment. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach's m…
Reality
Total Behavior Analysis
Total Behavior Analysis
A structured Reality Therapy technique focused on total behavior analysis. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach's…
Reality
WDEP System
WDEP System
A structured Reality Therapy technique focused on wdep system. It gives the therapist a concrete way to translate the approach's model into …
Sandplay
Sand Work Without Figures
Sand Work Without Figures
The client works only with sand — digging, smoothing, shaping, creating a landscape. Tactile contact with sand regulates the nervous system …
WBT
Autonomy Building
Autonomy Building
Strengthening the autonomy dimension: moving from dependence on others' opinions toward an internal locus of control through the practice of…
WBT
Environmental Mastery Enhancement
Environmental Mastery Enhancement
Strengthening the sense of control over daily life through small steps of organizing the environment, planning, and achieving concrete resul…
WBT
Personal Growth Activation
Personal Growth Activation
Work on the personal-growth dimension: stepping out of stagnation through new experience, learning, and gentle challenge to the comfort zone…
WBT
Positive Relations Enhancement
Positive Relations Enhancement
Work on the positive-relations dimension: deepening connections, building intimacy skills, and developing the capacity to receive and offer …
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
Relapse Prevention (WBT)
Relapse Prevention (WBT)
Building a plan to sustain well-being after therapy ends: reviewing progress, spotting early warning signs, and coding self-help strategies.
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