Portfolio Category: Therapy

Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) is goal oriented, targeting the desired outcome of therapy as a solution rather than focusing on the symptoms or issues that brought someone to therapy. This technique emphasizes present and future circumstances and desires over past experiences. The therapist encourages the client to imagine the future that he or she wants and…

Humanistic therapies evolved in the USA during the 1950s.  Carl Rogers proposed that therapy could be simpler, warmer and more optimistic than that carried out by behavioral or psychodynamicpsychologists. His view differs sharply from the psychodynamic and behavioral approaches in that he suggested that clients would be better helped if they were encouraged to focus on their current…

Feminist therapy was developed in response to the many challenges women have faced throughout history. The understanding that women may experience mental health issues as a result of psychological oppression is a core concept of feminist therapy. In therapy, women and other groups that have been marginalized might address the limitations experienced due to the sociopolitical…

Often when an individual has experienced a traumatising event or is recovering from an addiction, he may question the value of his life. Existential therapy focuses on the questions that human beings have always asked themselves such as ‘How can I live a worthwhile life?’ Existential therapy focuses on the nature of truth and reality…