Play Therapy uses a range of methods to engage children through play. It can be used with children form 6 months to late adolescence. This modality focuses on allowing children and teens to express their experiences and feelings through imaginative self-expressive process with a trained therapist.
Somatic Therapy is a therapeutic approach which engages the body awareness as a powerful tool and intervention in therapy. Somatic approaches are used to connect the mind, body, brain, and behavior. It is believed an individual's inner feelings can impact decision making and their physical form. Through somatic exercises, individuals are able to release trauma from the mind and body.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based psychotherapy approach directed at solving current problems and teaching clients skills to modify dysfunctional thinking and behavior. CBT is based on the cognitive model: the way we perceive situations influence our thinking patterns. Using this approach allows individuals to identify their distressing thoughts, change their distorted thinking and focus on solving problems and initiating behavior changes.
Most commonly used with children.
Psychodynamic therapy, also known as insight-oriented therapy, focuses on the unconscious processes as they are manifested in a person's present behavior. Using this approach allows individuals to increase their self-awareness and understand the influences of past experiences to current behavior. The focus is on childhood experiences and past dysfunctional relationships that manifest themselves in different symptoms and ways of pain.
Solution-focused brief therapy is a goal-directed collaborative approach to psychotherapeutic change that is conducted through direct observation of clients' responses to a series of precisely constructed questions. Focusing on solutions to presenting problems.
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