An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Rolfing: (This article or section is missing citations or needs footnotes):

Rolfing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolfing

Rolfing is a system of soft tissue manipulation, with the objective of realigning the body structurally and harmonizing its fundamental movement patterns in relation to gravity (see Structural Integration).

Though the service mark Rolfing belongs to The Rolf Institute of Structural Integration, the term Rolfing is generally used to apply to a range of systems based on the teachings of Dr. Ida Pauline Rolf[1].

Practitioners of Rolfing believe it to enhance vitality and well-being, and claim that after sessions, many clients stand up straighter, gain in height, and that soft-tissue bodily asymmetries tend to disappear.

Rolfing is in some ways similar to deep tissue massage (see especially Myofascial Release), however, practitioners stress that Rolfing's attention to the balance of the body in gravity sets the practice apart[2].

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An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Self Relationship (or Sponsorship): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_psychotherapies

Self-Relations describes how psychotherapy might be used to cultivate the courage and freedom to love.

First described in Stephen Gilligan's article: The relational self: the expanding of love beyond desire (1996), and expanded on in his book: The Courage to Love (1997), it has become a major new approach in psychotherapy and healing.

It refers to a form of support, help, and assistance, usually found in psychotherapy and other therapeutic contexts, but also found in executive coaching, community building, and other forms of healing.

It takes as its starting point, that 'symptoms' are most often the sign of something trying to \"wake up\" within a person, causing both visible and hidden conflict.

It views symptoms such as violence and withdrawal, as born of a \"skill-less\" attempt to awaken oneself.

Self-relations asserts that therapeutic work should always be centered on supporting this awakening process, allowing and helping it to grow, rather than immediately practicing specific 'techniques' to 'fix' or eradicate symptoms.

Accordingly, although self-relations draws upon many distinct schools and traditions of therapy and healing, it works primarily with the flow of life, to awaken 'soul' and love in a person's experience of themselves and others.

It draws upon other traditions of guidance and awakening so that powerful human experiences can be used to guide someone's process of self-awakening, which can often feel painful and confused.

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Social Therapy: (The neutrality and factual accuracy of this article are disputed):

Social Therapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Therapy

Social therapy is an activity-theoretic practice developed outside of academia at the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy in New York.

Its primary methodologists are cofounders of the East Side Institute, Fred Newman and Lois Holzman.

In evolution since the late 1970s, the social therapeutic approach to human development and learning is informed by a variety of intellectual traditions especially the works of Karl Marx, Lev Vygotsky and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT): (It has been suggested that brief therapy be merged into this article or section: Discuss)

Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution_focused_brief_therapy

Solution focused brief therapy (SFBT) (often referred to as simply 'solution focused therapy' or 'brief therapy') is a type of talking therapy that is based upon social constructionist philosophy.

It focuses on what clients want to achieve through therapy rather than on the problem(s) that made them seek help.

The approach does not focus on the past, but instead, focuses on the present and future.

The therapist/counselor uses respectful curiosity to invite the client to envision their preferred future and then therapist and client start attending to any moves towards it whether these are small increments or large changes.

To support this, questions are asked about the client’s story, strengths and resources, and about exceptions to the problem.

Solution focused therapists believe that change is constant.

By helping people identify the things that they wish to have change in their life and also to attend to those things that are currently happening that they wish to continue happening, SFBT therapists help their clients to construct a concrete vision of a preferred future for themselves.

The SFBT therapist then helps the client to identify times in their current life that are closer to this future, and examines what is different on these occasions.

By bringing these small successes to their awareness, and helping them to repeat these successful things they do when the problem is not there or less severe, the therapists helps the client move towards the preferred future they have identified.

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An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Somatic Psychology: (It has been suggested that Body Psychotherapy be merged into this article or section: Discuss)

Somatic Psychology: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_Psychology

Somatic psychology, also referred to as body psychotherapy, is an interdisciplinary field involving the study of therapeutic and holistic approaches to the body, somatic experience, and the embodied self.

It is based in psychological, neurological, developmental, medical, social and cultural sciences. The word somatic comes from the ancient Greek somat (body).

The word psychology comes from the ancient Greek psyche (breath, soul hence mind) and logia (study).

Wilhelm Reich was the first to bring the body into psychoanalysis, and to physically touch the client.[1]

The only reference to the body in psychotherapy had previously been physiological and neurophysiological.

Some credit Reich as a singlehanded founder of somatic psychology (though he called his early work character analysis).

Many body-oriented psychotherapies trace their origins to Reich, yet in mainstream psychology his work remains marginalised.[2]

However, there are earlier practitioners for example, the Persian physician Avicenna (980 to 1037 CE) who performed psychotherapy only by observing the movement of the patient's pulse as he listened to their anguish.[3]

This is reminiscent of both traditional Tibetan medicine and current energy therapies that employ tapping points on a meridian.

Some writers describe 'body as slow mind'[4] and this has coincided with research into embodiment and consciousness, and an unconscious mind that 'speaks' through the language of body.

Dance therapy reflects this approach and is included in the field of somatic psychology.[5][6].[7][8]

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An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Systematic Desensitization: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_desensitization

Systematic Desensitization is a type of behavioral therapy used in the field of psychology to help effectively overcome phobias and other anxiety disorders.

More specifically, it is a type of Pavlovian therapy developed by a South African psychiatrist, Joseph Wolpe.

To begin the process of systematic desensitization, one must first be taught relaxation skills in order to control fear and anxiety responses to specific phobias.

Once the individual has been taught these skills, he or she must use them to react towards and overcome situations in an established hierarchy of fears.

The goal of this process is that an individual will learn to cope and overcome the fear in each step of the hierarchy, which will lead to overcoming the last step of the fear in the hierarchy.

Systematic desensitization is sometimes called graduated exposure therapy.