Therapy frameworks/ Preferred modalities
(Those therapies I’ve found of most relevance for trauma clients - number of stars equates with frequency of use)
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (incorporating):
Rogerian client-centred therapy * * * * * * *
Self Psychology (Kohut) * * * * * * *
The “self-trauma model” of trauma therapy (J.Briere) * * * *
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Emotionally Focussed Psychotherapy * * * * * *
Existential Psychotherapy * * * *
Gestalt therapy (& variants) especially:
Ego-State Therapy (Helen Watkins) * * * * * * *
Inner Family Systems Therapy (Schwartz) * * * *
Voice Dialogue * *
Transactional Analysis * *
Jungian (etc) dreamwork
(processing and integration) * * * * *
Expressive therapies (including):
Sandplay & Symbol Therapy * * * * * *
Art therapy * * * *
“ time-line therapy” * * * *
Psychodrama & role-plays * *
Cognitive Schema Therapy & CBT * * * * * *
Narrative therapy (White et. al.) * * * * * *
Solution-focussed therapy * * * * * *
Somatic psychotherapy
(esp. body awareness to manage PTSD hyperarousal)* * * * * *
Clinical Hypnosis
(not used for memory retrieval) * * * * * * *
Relaxation techniques (including):
Guided imagery * * * * * *
Mindfulness training (thought-awareness/consciousness raising) * * *
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Progressive muscle/isometric relaxation & breathing techniques
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Gendlin’s Focussing Oriented Psychotherapy * * * * *
Various adapted desensitisation & reprocessing techniques (including):
EMDR protocol (without the eye-movements!), EFT, & Ochberg’s
counting method * * * * *
NLP (Neuro-Linguistic (Re-)Programming) & “Visual-Kinesthetic
Dissociation” (V. Satire) *
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Assertiveness practice
(body language etc) * *