Decoding Therapy Speak

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Decoding Therapy Speak

1. Attachment-based:

 identifies your underlying secure or insecure tendency toward safety (attachmentproject.com/)

2. Brainspotting:

Neuroexperiential (ie brain experience) modality using focused mindfulness to process thoughts, emotions, physical sensations experienced and held in the body to distress (brainspotting.com)

3. Christian Counseling:

The use of Christian principles, concepts, and practices aligned with mental health understanding and support

4. Coaching:

Building skills and motivation for willingness and movement toward change and reaching specific outcomes/goals

5. Cognitive Behavioral (CBT):

The focus on the interplay and changes of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to improve outlook and self-talk

6. Compassion Focused:

Curiously open to wholly understand the suffering or challenges of others and feel motivated to help alleviate that suffering, even if that means challenging the understanding 

7. Culturally Sensitive:

Acknowledge, welcome, and accept ALL the differences of bodies, identities and expressions, beliefs and curiosities, and ways of life that make up your cultural self

8. Decolonial lens:

The understanding that individual’s mental health and emotive/body experiences are not diagnostic but influenced and shaped by the social, cultural, and political systems and experiences of being a human in the context of their multitude of identities and the intersection of the individual and the systems

9. Epigenetics:

The study of the nature (genetic inheritance) and nurture (environment and other factors) impact and change the way genes and their programming are expressed

10. Embodied somatics:

Practices to build awareness of the body’s experience with thoughts, emotions, sensations, how they have shown up from conditioned tendencies, how they can shift and align to your values, safety, belonging, and dignity on purpose

11. Emotion Focused:

The focussed attention to understanding, acknowledging, and processing emotions that accompany all life experiences

12. Feminist theory:

Exploring the role socialized and cultural gender norms and expectations impact ALL genders (including men) and circumstances inequitably and oppressively

13. Integrative:

 Utilizing multiple approaches that are the most appropriate and effective for your particular needs and identifies

14. Internal Family Systems (IFS):

Identifying, understanding, and supporting all “parts” (ex emotions, younger selves, critics, encouragers) within an individual system and how they show up to protect, inform, and work with your true self 

15. Mindfulness Techniques:

The use of practices for regulating, slowing, and having awareness of ones thoughts, emotions, sensations, 

16. Motivational Interviewing:

Collaborative questioning for understanding and building motivation (for change and generally) and confidence

17. Multicultural:

Acknowledging how your various identities (ex culture, race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, socioeconomic status, etc) impact your mental health

18. Neuropsychology:

The understanding of thoughts, emotions, sensations through the brain’s functioning

19. Person-Centered:

 Focusing on the individual and their abilities, rather than “condition or disability”

20. Psychodynamic theory:

Approach to understanding the impact of early life experiences on the development of mental and emotional processes and behavioral patterns

21. Solution-focused brief therapy:

Goal-focused approach looks at utilizing existing skills, strategies, and ideas to move through blocks and achieve the identified goals

22. Strength-Based:

A focus on the use and development of an individual’s strengths, abilities, knowledge, skills, and potential

23. Trauma Focused:

Acknowledgement and understanding of the impact of trauma on people’s neurological, psychological, biological, and social development, and using approaches that effectively support safety, healing, and care

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