Humanistic
Person-Centred Therapy
Person-centred therapy promotes the autonomy of individuals and belief in the innate ability of people to fulfil their potential.
"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination."
Carl Rogers
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“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Carl Rogers
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Also includes Gestalt therapy, Existentialism and Transactional Analysis.
Psychodynamic
Psychodynamic Therapy
With its roots in traditional psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapy seeks to offer insight into unconscious drives on behaviour and experiencing, often looking at the impact of early childhood on current issues. Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Carl Jung, Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott and John Bowlby have all contributed to psychodymamic practice.
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” Carl Jung
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“Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.”
Alfred Adler
Cognitive-Behavioural
Cognitive Behavioural therapy
CBT helps you acknowledge and challenge cognitive distortions. It seeks to help you understand the connection between your thoughts, physical feelings, emotions and behaviours. Changing negative thoughts to rational thoughts can lead to changes in emotional experiencing and behaviour.
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“Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.”
Aaron Beck
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“You mainly feel the way you think.”
Albert Ellis
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Other therapies include DBT and REBT.