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Psychotherapy is a term for treating mental health problems by talking with a psychiatrist, psychologist or other mental health provider. During psychotherapy, clients learn about moods, feelings, thoughts and behaviors. Psychotherapy can help you learn how to take control of your life and respond to challenging situations with healthy coping skills. Psychotherapy is often as effective as medications. Depending on your individual situation however, psychotherapy alone may not be enough to lessen your symptoms. You may also require other treatments or medication.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a therapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference.

EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma.

EMDR therapy is an eight-phase treatment. Eye movements (or other bilateral stimulation) are used during one part of the session. After the clinician has determined which memory to target first, he asks the client to hold different aspects of that event or thought in mind and to use his eyes to track visual stimulation, listen to audio stimulation, or feel tactile stimulation As this happens, for reasons believed by a Harvard researcher to be connected with the biological mechanisms involved in Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, internal associations arise and the clients begin to process the memory and disturbing feelings. In successful EMDR therapy, the meaning of painful events is transformed on an emotional level.

EMDR Institute.(n.d.)What is EMDR?. What is EMDR? - EMDR Institute - EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITIZATION AND REPROCESSING THERAPY

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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a type of treatment that has been shown to be effective for problems such as depression, anxiety disorders, alcohol, and drug use problems, marital problems, eating disorders, and severe mental illness. Many studies suggest that CBT leads to significant improvement in functioning and quality of life. In many studies, CBT has been demonstrated to be as effective as or more effective than other forms of psychological therapy or psychiatric medication.

CBT focuses on what is happening now in the client’s life, rather than what has led the client here. Treatment helps clients uncover and change unhelpful thinking patterns. CBT helps clients learn to change behavioral patterns that are unhelpful.

APA(n.d.)What is CBT?. What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? (apa.org)

TF-CBT is an evidence-based treatment for children and adolescents impacted by trauma and their parents or caregivers. It is a components-based treatment model incorporating trauma-sensitive interventions with cognitive behavioral, family, and humanistic principles and techniques. TF-CBT has proved successful with children and adolescents (ages 3 to 18) who have significant emotional problems (e.g., symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, fear, anxiety, or depression) related to traumatic life events. It can be used with children and adolescents who have experienced a single trauma or multiple traumas in their lives.

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network.(n.d.)Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy | The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (nctsn.org)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy or DBT is a mindfulness-based, cognitive behavioral treatment. Initially recognized as the gold standard treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD), research has shown that DBT effectively treats various disorders such as substance dependence, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and eating disorders.