Can you explain the different therapeutic approaches?
Trying to explore what type of therapy works for you? Our clinicians use a mix of all of these in some capacity. We’ve broken it down to make it easier to understand.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT is a type of therapy that helps people to understand how their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected. It teaches you how to recognize and challenge negative or unhelpful thoughts and replace them with healthier, more balanced thinking patterns. The goal is to improve emotional well-being, developing coping skills, and making positive changes in behavior. CBT can help with several different aspects of life and also diagnosis such anxiety and depression to name a few.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
DBT teaches people how to manage intense emotions, cope with stress, improve relationships, and make healthier choices. It puts focus on balancing self acceptance with positive change, with a focus on four main skils’s: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. The goal of DBT is to help you be able to respond to situations that are difficult rather than acting on impulse. This is a commonly use therapeutic approach with Borderline Personality Disorder, but can be used for other things as well.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT is as it sounds, it teaches you how to accept difficult thoughts and feelings rather than trying to fight or avoid them. You work on focusing on the present, identifying what matters most to you, and then taking action on what aligns with your personal values. The goal with ACT is to help you build a meaningful life, even when you experience difficult emotions, stress, or challenges.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy takes a strong approach on helping you understand how past experiences, childhood relationships, and unconscious thoughts and feelings influence your current emotions, behaviors, and relationships. There is focus on identifying patterns, exploring unresolved experiences, and understanding why people may respond to situations in certain ways. The ultimate goal is to help you develop a greater self-awareness, understand emotional patterns, and create healthier ways of thinking, feeling, and relating to others.
Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt Therapy uses a unique approach to helping people become more aware of their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and experiences in the present moment. It encourages you to take responsibility for your own choices, understanding your emotions, and recognizing how you interact with the world around you. Some people find Gestalt to be a little more abrasive than other therapeutic styles due to the immediacy in nature (meaning the therapist will call you out quickly on things). The goal of Gestalt is to help you increase self-awareness, improve emotional understanding, and help you make healthier choices.