Therapy helps people of all ages to live happier, healthier and more productive lives.
Therapy offers an integrated and positive existence, an approach that takes advantage of the unique human ability to discover and create meaning and values from raw and often painful life experiences.
Therapy is a great way to control and treat the severity of symptoms such as stress, trauma, depression, and anxiety. There are many approaches to psychotherapy, including cognitive-behavioral, interactive and psychodynamic, among others, that help people work on their problems.
There are several types of therapies that can be used to help clients overcome problems.
Types of therapy
The following are some of the different types of therapies:
- Cognitive-Behavioral therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Behavioral therapy
- Psychodynamic therapy
- Group therapy
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a short-term therapy technique that can help people find new ways to change their way of thinking. A therapist use CBT to explore the relationship between a person's behavior and thoughts, feelings, or both.
Cognitive-behavioral therapists tend to focus on specific problems. The therapist can work with clients to change thinking patterns. This type of therapy is usually effective for clients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Thoughts are
the shadows
of our
feelings -
always darker,
emptier, and
simpler.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Dialectical behavioral therapy is based on cognitive behavioral principles. It helps people to tolerate and regulate their emotions and focuses on problem solving and acceptance.
Using DBT, a therapist can teach a person new skills, such as new ways of coping with situations and awareness methods. These skills helps a person to focus on finding and developing methods for dealing with daily challenges and behaviors.
Psychodynamic therapy
The purpose of psychodynamic therapy is to help a person cope with negative behaviors gained from past experiences.
This type of therapy involves recognizing, acknowledging, and overcoming negative emotions and repressed emotions to improve the patient's relationship with himself, others, and the world around him.
Your mind is
a powerful thing.
When you fill it with
positive thoughts,
your life will start
to change.
Behavioral Therapy
Behavioral therapies focus on transforming negative behaviors into positives. This therapy help treat conditions and disorders like anxiety, post-traumatic stress, anger, phobias and bipolar disorder.
The purpose of this therapy is to strengthen the desired behavior and eliminate unwanted things.
Group Therapy
Group therapy allows people experiencing similar problems to come together as a group to solve them. In group therapy, a therapist leads the discussion and individuals can comment or contribute individual thoughts and experiences.
It involves one or more therapists working with several people at the same time. Group therapy is used to treat a variety of conditions, including anger management, chronic illness, acute stress, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and weight management.