Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a therapy technique that allows you to explore how you think, feel and behave within a “thoughts, feelings and actions” framework. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on specific challenging situations in the “here and now” – rather than focusing on possible causes of your difficulties from the past.
CBT is effective with challenges like:
- Anxiety
- Panic
- Depression
- Anger
- Trauma
Exposure Response Prevention (ERP)
Exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy is one of the most effective forms of treatment for OCD. Under the guidance of a therapist, people who receive ERP therapy can gradually reduce their anxieties and stop the problematic cycle of OCD.
ERP therapy is a behavioural therapy that gradually exposes people to situations designed to provoke a person’s obsessions in a safe environment.
A hallmark of ERP is that is doesn’t completely remove distressing situations and thoughts. Not only can distress not be eliminated from someone’s life altogether but doing so would make it impossible for patients to cope during everyday situations.
Narrative Therapy
Narrative therapy is a respectful, non-blaming approach to therapy. A narrative approach assumes that people are the experts in their lives and that they have the skills, values and abilities to lessen the impact of problems on their lives. Life problems and challenges are placed as “outside” or “separate” from the individual in narrative therapy.
Narrative Therapy can help you:
- Understand your actions/behaviours in your own values framework
- Separate problems from self and let go of negative self-judgments
- Uncover your life stories beyond the “one big problem” story
- Deconstruct problematic life stories
Solution-focused Therapy
Solution Focused Therapy is future-focused, goal-directed, and focuses on solutions, rather than on the problems that brought clients to seek therapy. Solution Focused Therapy has been used successfully in individual and couples therapy, couples , as well as with youth who are experiencing behavioural concerns or academic/school-related concerns.
Solution-focused therapy can help you:
- Create change in your life by identifying and developing skills that will contribute to your goals.
- Develop a vision of one’s future and then determining how internal abilities can be enhanced in order to attain the desired outcome.
- Address challenges for which the person in therapy already has some idea of possible solutions.