Grief Recovery Method® is a type of therapy that focuses on the grieving process. It helps people deal with the pain of loss through a step-by-step approach and can be used to help you move through your grief in a healthy way.

This means that you'll have time set aside each week for working through your feelings around what has happened, as well as learning new skills to help you cope with those feelings. Grief can come from many types of loss including:

• Death of a loved one

• Loss of a pet

• Divorce or seperation

• Pregnancy loss or infertility

• Chronic illness or injury

• Loss of health

• Moving

• Loss of home

• Loss of faith

• Financial loss or job loss

• Life changes such as having a baby or marriage

• Graduation or moving on from something

• Psychological diagnosis

• Loss of meaning, dreams, or expectations

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy treatment that involves recalling difficult memories and re-experiencing them in a controlled way.

The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing can resume.

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, the client is asked to hold different aspects of that event or thought in their mind and to use their eyes to track the therapist’s hand as it moves back and forth across the client’s field of vision. As this happens, internal associations arise and the clients begin to process the memory and feelings.

In successful EMDR therapy, the meaning of these painful events are transformed on an emotional level and creates a cognitive shift. This process helps people with PTSD manage their traumatic pasts by reducing their emotional impact on daily life.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) aims to help you identify and explore the ways your emotions and thoughts can affect your actions. Once you notice these patterns, you can begin learning how to change your behaviours and develop new coping strategies.

CBT is based on several core principles, including:

• Psychological issues are partly based on problematic or unhelpful patterns of thinking.

• Psychological issues are partly based on learned patterns of unhelpful behavior.

• Psychological issues are partly based on problematic core beliefs, including central ideas about yourself and the world.

• People experiencing psychological issues can learn better ways of coping with them. This can help relieve their symptoms and improve their mental and emotional health.

During CBT, a mental health professional helps you take a close look at your thoughts and emotions. You’ll come to understand how your thoughts affect your actions. Through CBT, you can unlearn negative thoughts and behaviors and learn to adopt healthier thinking patterns and habits. Using a question-and-answer format, your therapist helps you gain a different perspective.

Psychodynamic therapy (PDT) is a form of talk therapy. It is based on the idea that talking to a professional about problems people are facing can help them find relief and reach solutions.

PDT's basis states deriving insights from childhood can give patients insights about their current problems to help them achieve a higher quality of life.

In any type of psychotherapy, the relationship between the patient and therapist is important, but especially in PDT. Psychodynamic therapy's success relies heavily on trust, since the topics discussed during sessions are often sensitive or traumatic.

PDT can be compared to other popular forms of therapy, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Both aim to help patients increase their self-awareness and gain more control over their own mental health, however PDT puts a higher emphasis on unpacking how past traumas affect current emotions.

Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is a type of psychotherapy based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), but specially adapted for people who experience emotions very intensely.

The key difference between CBT and DBT lies in the concept of validation and relationships. DBT teaches that our experiences are real/valid and to accept them as such. It also informs us that we must make positive changes if we wish to have a healthy relationship with the ever-changing, and often-challenging world around us.

DBT works towards reducing one’s emotional distress that negatively impacts their wellbeing and the way they interact with their surroundings.

More specifically, DBT focuses on skills training and includes mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness and distress tolerance.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a positive emotion eliciting, future-oriented approach for formulating, motivating, achieving, and sustaining desired behavioural change.

SFBT doesn’t require a deep dive into your childhood and the ways in which your past has influenced your present. Instead, it will root your sessions firmly in the present while working toward a future in which your current problems have less of an impact on your life.

The word “brief” in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy is key. The goal of SFBT is to minimize time spent in therapy and time spent struggling by finding and implementing a solution to the problem or problems as soon as possible.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) emphasizes identifying practical, achievable solutions that align with each client’s unique needs and goals. This evidence-based approach focuses on building on existing strengths and resources to create meaningful change, and has been applied successfully across a wide range of settings and populations worldwide.

To be mindful is to observe and label thoughts, feelings, and sensations in the body in an objective manner. Mindfulness can be a tool to avoid self-criticism and judgment while identifying and managing difficult emotions.

The focus is on increasing our awareness of the thoughts, feelings, and actions that hinder our progress.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), is a modified form of cognitive therapy that incorporates mindfulness practices that include present moment awareness, meditation, and breathing exercises.

Using these tools, the mindfulness-based therapist teaches a client to be in the here and now as well as break away from negative thought patterns that can cause a decline into a mood-disordered state.