Counseling Modalities
Counselors draw from the counseling theories, skills, and interventions that develop out of special modalities that have arisen in the 125 years since talk therapy's formal inception by Sigmund Freud (though "the talking cure" has deeper roots in world history - check out this Wikipedia article on the history of psychotherapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_psychotherapy).
Research shows that the therapeutic alliance, or the quality of the therapeutic relationship, is the most critical variable in successful therapy, irregardless of counseling traditions or treatment approaches that a clinician draws from. Also, there is considerable overlap between these different modalities and you find similar therapeutic ingredients in them. Nonetheless stylistic differences as well as different ways to understand human experience and human suffering create different slants or takes on the counseling process.
There are so many counseling traditions out there! Check out this comprehensive list featured on Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/types-of-therapy
Below you'll find some articles on traditions and approaches we have found useful over the years to draw inspiration and sources of healing and self-understanding from:
Research shows that the therapeutic alliance, or the quality of the therapeutic relationship, is the most critical variable in successful therapy, irregardless of counseling traditions or treatment approaches that a clinician draws from. Also, there is considerable overlap between these different modalities and you find similar therapeutic ingredients in them. Nonetheless stylistic differences as well as different ways to understand human experience and human suffering create different slants or takes on the counseling process.
There are so many counseling traditions out there! Check out this comprehensive list featured on Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/types-of-therapy
Below you'll find some articles on traditions and approaches we have found useful over the years to draw inspiration and sources of healing and self-understanding from:
Explore:
- Existential-Humanistic Psychology
- Mindfulness
- Contemplative Traditions
- Analytic/Jungian Psychology
- East Meets West, Taoism
- Spirituality