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30 techniques · 10 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.
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…
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
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
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
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.
EFT for Couples
Working with Fear of Closeness
Working with Fear of Closeness
Inquiry into the fears that prevent accepting closeness: "If I show vulnerability — I will be hurt. If I let in — I will lose myself." Norma…
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
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.
IBCT
Acceptance Letter
Acceptance Letter
Each partner writes a letter describing what they accept in the other — including what they used to want to change. The letters are read in …
IBCT
Hard and Soft Emotions Mapping
Hard and Soft Emotions Mapping
A visualization of the link between the surface (hard) and deep (soft) emotions of each partner. Helps the move from blame to understanding.
IBCT
IBCT Incident Analysis
IBCT Incident Analysis
A structured analysis of a concrete conflict through the lens of the case formulation: how the theme, the trap, and the mutual trap showed u…
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
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
Theme Exploration
Theme Exploration
A deep inquiry into the fundamental difference (the theme) between the partners: where it comes from, how it was formed, why it matters to e…
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…
PST
Healthy Thinking and Positive Imagery Toolkit
Healthy Thinking and Positive Imagery Toolkit
A Problem-Solving Therapy technique focused on healthy thinking and positive imagery toolkit. It helps the therapist and client turn an emot…
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 …
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…
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