What are Counselling Modalities/Approaches?
They are different approaches or methods therapists utilize to help clients work through mental health concerns, emotional challenges, or life issues. Each modality is based on specific psychological theories and offers a unique way to understand and address an individual's experiences.
The purpose of counselling modalities is to provide structured approaches or techniques that help individuals better understand themselves, process their emotions, and make meaningful change in their lives. Each modality offers a different lens for exploring mental health concerns and guiding the therapeutic process.
CBT help you recognize unhelpful thoughts and behavioural patterns and teach you how to respond. As a result, you learn to change or modify your behaviour and reduce symptoms impairing your quality of life.
Therapists use this evidence-based psychotherapy to treat individuals with severe symptoms who feel their emotions intensely. The purpose is to help you understand your emotions, accept difficult feelings, and help you learn new skills to control them.
A form of behaviour therapy aimed to help you overcome your fears and anxieties by effectively breaking patterns of avoidance. Your therapist will continuously expose you to your fear in a safe, controlled environment to reduce your symptoms by increasing your ability to confront uncomfortable situations.
Cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness strategies combined to help you understand and manage your thoughts and emotions and find relief from distressing feelings.
This unique approach to psychotherapy guides you to embrace being "your own expert" in your life. A therapist can use various techniques and exercises to effectively help you confront your current and future problems.
A skill developed through mindfulness exercises - this type of mindfulness-based psychotherapy teaches you to be "present in the moment" and emphasizes acceptance. The purpose is to focus on healing and embrace life as it happens, pushing you to create a compassionate relationship with difficult experiences.
A structured approach focuses on developing skills that; increase intimacy and respect and mediate conflicting communication between couples. The purpose is to increase empathy and understanding and remove obstacles that prevent them from turning to each other for support.