Counseling Information

Overview of psychotherapy

Psychotherapy can be invaluable for healing.

There are many approaches to psychotherapy: existential, cognitive, behavioral, psychoanalysis and hypnosis.

• Existential psychotherapy focuses on the pursuit of meaning and inspiration in a person's life.

• Cognitive therapy addresses how thoughts may cause mental distress such as anxiety or depression.

• Behavior therapy involves relaxation methods to help a person heal difficulties such as public speaking; and also involves contracts to establish support for goals.

• Psychoanalysis focuses on healing emotional wounds.

• Hypnosis provides altered states of consciousness to help with relaxation, sleep, dream interpretation, personal insight, and creativity.

Psychotherapy sometimes focuses on just one approach but sometimes multiple approaches are integrated

Counseling Articles:
Overview of psychotherapy
Existential Psychotherapy
Cognitive Therapy
Behavior Therapy
Psychoanalysis
Hypnosis
Dream analysis