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The goal of most psychotherapy is to help people cope with negative emotions and experiences, while supporting them in finding more fulfillment in their lives.

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What are some of the most popular types of therapy?

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Humanistic Therapy

Humanistic therapy is a mental health approach that emphasises the importance of getting in touch with your true self to lead a fulfilling life. It focuses more on the individual's current day-to-day life and on helping the individual as a whole, rather than treating a specific diagnosis.

Humanistic therapy may be ideal for:

  • Self-esteem issues
  • Trauma
  • Relationship issues
  • Feeling disconnected from yourself or "stuck" in life
  • Life change and transition

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify and change thinking and behavioural patterns that could be harmful and replace them with beneficial thoughts and functional behaviours. It helps a person understand their current problems and solve them by learning and practising new skills.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) may be ideal for:

  • Anxiety
  • Stress
  • Insomnia
  • Difficult thought patterns
  • Depression
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Eating Disorders

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy

This is a third wave mindfulness CBT that helps people regulate their emotions. Dialectical Behavioural Therapy helps people learn new skills that will help them change unhealthy or disruptive behaviour patterns. DBT was originally intended to treat borderline personality disorder (BPD), but it has been adapted to treat other mental health conditions.

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) may be ideal for:

  • Substance misuse
  • Eating Disorders
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Self-harm behaviours
  • Emotional dysregulation
  • Suicidality

Psychodynamic Therapy

This therapy is based on the concept that mental health is influenced by past childhood experiences and inappropriate repetitive thoughts or feelings that the client is not conscious of. Clients are supported to address these issues, improve self-awareness, and change unwanted behavioural patterns.

Psychodynamic Therapy may be ideal for:

  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Disordered Eating
  • Somatic symptoms (pain in the body)
  • Substance use disorder

Behavioural Therapy

Behavioural Therapy is a focused, action-oriented approach to mental health treatment. In behavioural therapy, individuals will not spend much time talking about unconscious reasons for their behaviour or working through emotional difficulties. Instead, you will focus on ways to change behavioural reactions and patterns that cause you distress.

Behavioural Therapy may be ideal for:

  • Substance misuse
  • Defiant or Oppositional behaviours
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Phobias
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a third-wave CBT that guides and encourages clients to utilise mindfulness and reconnect with their values so they can build a rich, full and meaningful life. Being mindful can improve levels of anxiety or depression, improve self-worth, coping mechanisms and quality of life.

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) may be ideal for:

  • Chronic Pain
  • Anxiety or phobias
  • Depression
  • Feeling stuck or lost in life
  • Grief & Loss
  • Trauma

Cognitive Processing Therapy

Cognitive Processing Therapy, or CPT, seeks to provide individuals with the assistance they need to overcome traumatic episodes within their life like abuse, assault, accident or disaster. It is a form of cognitive behavioural therapy and is highly effective at providing healing for persons living with PTSD.

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) will provide great improvement for:

  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Trauma
  • Anxiety
  • Anger
  • Depression
  • Sleep challenges
  • Feelings of hopelessness
  • Grief

Talk Therapy

Talk therapy, or psychotherapy, is an intervention used by mental health professionals to help clients express their experience that leads to emotional turmoil and indifference. These situations may range from relationship issues, grief, trauma, and medical challenge. Sessions are generally 40-60 minutes where you learn to understand your stressors and how to navigate them with coping strategies.

Talk therapy will help with the following issues:

  • Life stressors
  • Trauma
  • Medical illness
  • Loss of a loved one
  • Grief
  • Anxiety
  • Depression

Exposure Therapy

This is a type of therapy geared to providing psychological relief as it relates to debilitating fear. Exposure therapy places the individual in the position to face their fear head-on without avoiding it. The fear it addresses isn't limited to only situations but even objects. We work to ensure that fear with exposure therapy improves by creating a safe environment to break fear and avoidance patterns.

Exposure Therapy may be ideal for:

  • Panic Disorder
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Social Anxiety Disorder
  • Post-Traumatic Disorder
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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Why Long-Term Therapy Creates Lasting Change

Research consistently shows that while short-term therapy provides quick relief, long-term therapy delivers deeper, more sustainable transformation.

5-12%
Greater Improvement
In work ability with long-term therapy compared to short-term after 3 years of follow-up.
Superior
Long-Term Results
Long-term therapy outperforms short-term therapies for symptom reduction and overall functioning.
5 Years
Stable Benefits
Benefits remain stable for multiple years after therapy ends, with long-term gains in quality of life.

The Long-Term Advantage

While short-term therapies provide benefits more quickly, research from the Helsinki Psychotherapy Study shows that long-term therapy becomes more effective over time, with superior outcomes appearing after the first year and continuing to grow throughout the follow-up period.

The gains from therapy are markedly stable and endure several years after treatment ends, with long-term therapy showing particular benefits for improving perceived social support, a crucial factor for psychological well-being.

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