Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT):

• ACT is considered as one of the “third-wave” behavioral therapies; it places an emphasis on the development of mindfulness skills.

• The objective of ACT is to be present with what life brings; it is not about eliminating the difficult feelings or avoiding the situations that cause those feelings- it is about allowing your feelings to be as they are, letting them come and go rather than trying to control them.

• In other words, it is about accepting what we can’t control.

• For more information, you can check out www.actmindfully.com.au

Attachment-Based Therapy:

• Attachment-based therapy is a psychoanalytic psychotherapy that is informed by attachment theory.

• The early attachment experiences we have with our primary caregiver(s) not only shape who we become as adults, but also affect our future relationships and friendships. The objectives are:

  • to improve the capacity to form secure relationships (working on building a secure relationship between the therapist and the client)

  • to explore and address the effects of negative early attachment experiences

  • to improve adaptive actions (changing the current reactions to situations that cause distress)

• In other words, it is about helping the client learn new ways of approaching and behaving in relationships

Bibliotherapy:

• Bibliotherapy is a creative arts therapies modality that involves:

  • reading of specific texts recommended by your therapist and

  • storytelling with the purpose of healing

• It is used alongside other therapy modalities

Brainspotting:

• Brainspotting is a form of therapy that aims to help clients process traumatic experiences and difficult emotions.

• It is based on the belief that certain eye positions and movements correlate to spots in the brain that store traumatic memories.

• Just like EMDR, it targets the brain’s natural healing mechanisms

• By using eye positions, somatic awareness, focused mindfulness and the therapist’s attunement to process, it helps access parts of the brain that are hard to reach through talk therapy.

• Brainspotting can be used as the primary mode or alongside other therapy modalities.

• For more information, you can visit: https://brainspotting.com/

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT):

• CBT is an evidence-based model of therapy and integrates behavioral and cognitive theories to conclude that the way people perceive a situation determines their reaction more than the actual reality of the situation does.

• The objectives are:

  • to help clients understand their current ways of thinking and behaving

  • to help clients learn strategies and tools to change their unhelpful thinking styles and behavioral patterns

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT):

• DBT is an evidence-based model of therapy and is considered part of the “third-wave” 0f cognitive-behavioral therapy and helps clients learn new skills in managing and regulating their painful emotions

• DBT provides skills in four important areas:

  • Mindfulness: accepting and being present in the current moment

  • Distress tolerance: increasing the client’s ability to tolerate negative emotions

  • Emotion regulation: recognizing, labeling, managing (and adjusting) intense emotions that cause problems in the client’s life

  • Interpersonal effectiveness: communicating and interacting in an assertive way where the client is able to maintain self-respect

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR):

• EMDR is a form of psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences

• It doesn’t require talking in great detail about the distressing issue; it lets the brain to go back to its own natural healing process

• The objectives are:

  • to help people who have experienced traumatic stress to reprocess those memories

  • to give people the tools to deal with the past, present and future trauma

• For more information, you can visit: www.emdria.org

Hypnotherapy:

• Hypnotherapy, also known as guided hypnosis, is a complementary tool that uses hypnosis to help clients turn their attention inward to find and use the natural resources within themselves

• Hypnosis is a trance-like mental state where people experience increased attention, concentration and suggestibility

• Hypnotherapy can help you change your unhelpful perceptions, thoughts, emotions and behaviours

Expressive Arts:

• It is a multimodal approach to therapy; it engages and supports the client through creative expression to promote emotional growth, and healing, along with helping clients connect or reconnect with their inner resources

• It may incorporate writing, drama, painting, music and/or dance and movement