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At ECH Counseling, we understand that not one approach works for all people. Our counselors have a variety of specialties and provide a range of services while utilizing different treatment approaches.
Are you ready to move forward? Be empowered to cope and heal?
CBT aims to help you identify and explore the ways your thoughts and emotions can affect your actions by:
Typical treatment often involves the following:
The goal of these techniques is to replace unhelpful or self-defeating thoughts with more encouraging and realistic ones.
Unlike many other therapy approaches, CBT does not focus much on talking about your past.
ACT helps people accept their thoughts and feelings, and move forward in a way that’s consistent with their values.
What is the difference between CBT and ACT?
What is the difference between DBT and ACT?
Typical treatment often involves the following 6 components:
The goal is to increase psychological flexibility. It encourages people to embrace their thoughts and feelings rather than fighting them. To identify core values and live in alignment with those values.
DBT focuses on learning skills to manage difficult emotions by helping:
There are four main concepts:
With this approach, therapy is often centered on you rather than on the symptom(s).
The three phases of existential therapy are:
People who view their concerns as issues of living rather than symptoms of a mental illness and are interested in self exploration are more likely to benefit from this approach.
Existential therapy aims to:
Certain aspects will be touched upon, to allow one to explore their lives:
IFS identifies and addresses multiple sub-parts within each person’s mental system. These sub-parts consist of wounded parts with painful emotions and parts that try to control and protect the person from the pain. The sub-parts are often in conflict with each other and with one’s self.
IFS focuses on healing the wounded parts and restoring mental balance by changing the dynamics that created the discord within a person.
By learning how the different parts function, a counselor can help one be able to identify the roots of conflict, manage any complications that arise within one’s self, and achieve greater well-being.
Solution-focused therapy doesn’t require you to dive into your past and the ways in which it has influenced your present. Instead, it will focus on the present while working toward a future in which your current problems have less of an impact on your life.
It is a future-oriented, goal-directed approach, that focuses on:
In session, counselors might:
Positive psychology focuses on enhancing psychological wellbeing by building on positive emotions, relationships, and strengths. To help clients discover their strengths and enhance their resilience, thereby protecting them against future stressors. To identify goals for self-growth.
Positive psychotherapy has a wide range of applications which are not just restricted to helping with mental health challenges.
In one particular model of positive psychotherapy there are three main principles:
In another particular model of positive psychotherapy, therapy is focused on building three aspects of happiness:
Meditation can produce a deep state of relaxation and tranquil mind. During meditation, you focus your attention on mind-body connection and eliminate the stream of jumbled thoughts that may be crowding your mind and causing stress. It is a practice that involves focusing one’s attention on an object, thought, or activity to achieve mental clarity and calmness. This process may result in enhanced physical and emotional well-being.
The specifics of a meditation session can vary depending on the type of meditation, individual preferences, and other factors. However, here are some general aspects you might expect:
There are many different types of meditation you might work on in counseling, here are a few:
Here are some of the benefits of meditation:
Hypnotherapy is usually considered an aid to psychotherapy because the hypnotic state allows people to explore painful thoughts, feelings, and memories they might have hidden from their conscious minds.
It is a similar concept as meditation, but with hypnotherapy one can focus on a specific issue they want to resolve.
Hypnotherapy can help you change attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors. It can be effective in treating a range of medical and psychological issues, including:
