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psychotherapies available
Below is a list of the primary therapies I use, but it is not an exhaustive list.
Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy (CBT): Examines your thoughts, emotions, and behaviours that are triggered in everyday situations. Thought records are used to record and challenge negative automatic thoughts. An effective treatment for many disorders and problematic thought patterns.
How Does CBT Work? video
Thinking about Using Thought Records
5 Tips for CBT Success
CBT for Core Beliefs: A CBT treatment that involves examining, challenging, and changing unhelpful core beliefs or schemas that usually start in childhood. Useful for long-term personality patterns, habits, and beliefs.
Exposure Therapy: Treatment for phobias, anxiety disorders, OCD, and PTSD that involves gradually exposing you to what you fear and not avoiding or using a compulsion to escape from the situation.
How Facing Your Fears Can Help You Conquer Them video
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Focuses on accepting the present and committing to improving your life at the same time. Includes mindfulness. It also involves identifying your values and goals and living according to your values.
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy? video
Mindfulness Training: Learning how to be in the present moment, on purpose, in a non-judgmental way. Sessions focus on ACT informal mindfulness, mundane task focusing, and observing thoughts. Mindfulness can also be practiced by listening to guided meditation recordings.
The Neuroscience of Mindfulness video
Client-Centered Therapy: Therapy is more directed by the client and focuses on the client's self-exploration and growth in the therapeutic relationship.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Therapy identifies client's strengths and abilities to solve past problems that can be used to cope with and solve current difficulties.
Relaxation Training: Practicing diaphragmatic breathing (breathing though your diaphragm), progressive muscle relaxation, guided imagery, and listening to relaxation exercises regularly.
Try some of these exercises
Interpersonal Therapy and Assertiveness Training: Improving your relationships when there are conflicts, changes in your role, or communication problems. Assertiveness training involves learning how to communicate in an assertive way that respects yourself and others and maintains relationships.
What is Interpersonal Therapy? video
What is Assertiveness? video
Problem-solving Therapy: Solve complex life problems in a strategic way.
CAMH Problem-Solving Therapy video
Behavioural Activation: Participating in pleasurable, calming, or useful activities to increase positive emotions.
100 Activities for Behavioural Activation
Activate Your Mood with Behavioural Activation
What is Behavioural Activation? video
Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy (CBT): Examines your thoughts, emotions, and behaviours that are triggered in everyday situations. Thought records are used to record and challenge negative automatic thoughts. An effective treatment for many disorders and problematic thought patterns.
How Does CBT Work? video
Thinking about Using Thought Records
5 Tips for CBT Success
CBT for Core Beliefs: A CBT treatment that involves examining, challenging, and changing unhelpful core beliefs or schemas that usually start in childhood. Useful for long-term personality patterns, habits, and beliefs.
Exposure Therapy: Treatment for phobias, anxiety disorders, OCD, and PTSD that involves gradually exposing you to what you fear and not avoiding or using a compulsion to escape from the situation.
How Facing Your Fears Can Help You Conquer Them video
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Focuses on accepting the present and committing to improving your life at the same time. Includes mindfulness. It also involves identifying your values and goals and living according to your values.
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy? video
Mindfulness Training: Learning how to be in the present moment, on purpose, in a non-judgmental way. Sessions focus on ACT informal mindfulness, mundane task focusing, and observing thoughts. Mindfulness can also be practiced by listening to guided meditation recordings.
The Neuroscience of Mindfulness video
Client-Centered Therapy: Therapy is more directed by the client and focuses on the client's self-exploration and growth in the therapeutic relationship.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Therapy identifies client's strengths and abilities to solve past problems that can be used to cope with and solve current difficulties.
Relaxation Training: Practicing diaphragmatic breathing (breathing though your diaphragm), progressive muscle relaxation, guided imagery, and listening to relaxation exercises regularly.
Try some of these exercises
Interpersonal Therapy and Assertiveness Training: Improving your relationships when there are conflicts, changes in your role, or communication problems. Assertiveness training involves learning how to communicate in an assertive way that respects yourself and others and maintains relationships.
What is Interpersonal Therapy? video
What is Assertiveness? video
Problem-solving Therapy: Solve complex life problems in a strategic way.
CAMH Problem-Solving Therapy video
Behavioural Activation: Participating in pleasurable, calming, or useful activities to increase positive emotions.
100 Activities for Behavioural Activation
Activate Your Mood with Behavioural Activation
What is Behavioural Activation? video
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