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​​What Psychotherapy is. It's Steps in the Process.

Psychotherapy is a treatment and/or a process that uses spoken conversation, ​

a dialogue between a trained therapist and the client/patient.​

Sessions are schedule usually once a week.

The therapist who is a stranger, listens, asks questions and maybe shares insights.

The conversation is one-sided: about the client only, not about the therapist.

Steps:

Understanding clients' difficulties and distress​

Provide an explanation for the distress

The therapist leads the client into healthy actions

The client understands she/he can do something about improving his/her situation​

The client believes that the treatment is effective

The client works collaboratively with the therapist

 

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​Eclectic Psychotherapy.

A structured process that combines multiple schools, theories and best practices of psychotherapy, meaning it uses various points of view in psychotherapy at the same time, for the same client.

The combination depends on the issue the client comes in with, client's personality and psychotherapist's academic interests, as well as the stage of recovery, life events that might be precipitating during the therapy and client's perspective on own life as well as his/her understanding of self.

One example is combining:

Existential Analysis (EA),

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT),

Mindfulness Based Stress Release (MBSR),

Jungian Analysis Dream Work and

Body & Energy Psychology .​

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