What is Psychodrama? Psychodrama is a form of therapy that uses an active and creative approach. It uses guided drama and role play to work through issues to heal trauma and other painful experiences. This approach is used in a group setting and incorporates different group dynamics to help individuals gain a greater perspective on … Read more
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy , or CBT, is designed to help clients make sense of their overwhelming thought patterns. Most of the time, those suffering from addiction as well as co-occurring disorders like anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder do not realize the impact of their thoughts on their behavior. With CBT, the main … Read more
Addiction affects the whole family system. Family therapy helps to restore function to the household. Here’s what you should know about family therapy.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is a type of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy that emphasizes the psychosocial aspects of treatment. This type of treatment centers around problem-solving and acceptance strategies. DBT is often used to treat individuals who have had little to no success with other treatment methods. It is used to develop techniques for achieving goals and decreasing … Read more
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a unique form of psychotherapy that is designed to decrease the disturbing feelings associated with traumatic events. EMDR differs from forms of talk therapy because it focuses more on the negative emotions and symptoms instead of the actual event itself. EMDR has helped many people overcome a variety of … Read more
Codependency is classified as a behavioral pattern where people take on a caretaker role in relationships. People who are codependent usually disregard their own needs in favor of the other person’s. The individual feels fulfilled and content in being needed by someone else. Codependency and Addiction On its own, codependency can make it incredibly difficult … Read more
Overcoming addiction from drugs or alcohol is a lifelong battle. Every day, individuals must fight against the urge to relapse. Recovery isn’t a one-time event, it’s something that people have to consciously pursue every single day. There are a number of treatment methods to achieve recovery, and many people are turning to hypnotherapy in their … Read more
Daily life often seems to challenge us with an endless stream of stressors. At times, stress can lead us to take action in a positive direction for ourselves. But, often, our biological stress response takes over in a way that hurts us rather than helps us. Luckily, we can take conscious control over parts of … Read more
In the wake of trauma, an individual may hold considerable tension throughout their body. While we often think of post-traumatic stress disorder as a purely mental affliction, Somatic Experiencing aims to bring awareness to, and subsequently relieve, tension held in the body following trauma. Origins And Development Peter A. Levine, Ph.D., developed Somatic Experiencing after … Read more
Psychodrama is a form of expressive therapy developed by Jacob L. Moreno in the early 1900s. Considered one of the most renowned social scientists of the time, Moreno took great interest in the role of spontaneous theater and founded the Theater of Spontaneity in Vienna, Austria. There, he developed psychodrama as one of the earliest … Read more
