What would your clients and colleagues say is your therapist superpower?
Being authentic and direct, while being empathetic and understanding.
Is there an example from your daily life where you practice what you preach?
It’s crucial to find ways to enjoy the process that is required to get to the place where you want to go. Along these lines, finding strategies, routines, and/or habits that can be incrementally installed, that are practical, effective, and enjoyable, helps promote sustainable and long-term positive change.
How do you approach the stigma surrounding mental health and therapy?
We all have things that we can work and improve upon and it takes courage to begin this process of self-improvement and increasing your quality of life.
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Short Term (Solution-focused, etc.)
Ideal for those who are coming in with a specific problem they’d like to address and gain clarity on. Typically, short term therapies are present focused and do not dive deep into your past.
Structured
Structured therapies are goal and progress oriented. Therapists may incorporate psychoeducation and a specific “curriculum.” In order to stay on track, therapists may provide worksheets and homework.
Insight-oriented (Psychodynamic, Existential, etc.)
Exploring the past and making connections to present issues can help clients gain insight. Getting to the root of the issue and finding deeper self-awareness can help with long-term change.
Non-directive (Humanistic, Person-centered, etc.)
Going with the flow and seeing where it leads.
Behavioral (CBT, DBT, etc.)
Focuses on changing potentially unhealthy or self-destructive behaviors by addressing problematic thought patterns and specific providing coping skills.
Trauma Focused (EMDR, TF-CBT, etc.)
Recognizing the connection between trauma experiences and your emotional and behavioral responses, trauma focused therapy seeks to help you heal from traumas.