Ten Approaches, Explained Plainly
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Each guide includes a simple diagram, what it helps with, what a session actually looks like, and a common misconception cleared up.
No. 01 · Modality · Structured
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
How thoughts, feelings, and behavior feed each other, and how changing one changes the others.
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No. 02 · Modality · Skills-Based
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Skills for handling intense emotion without making the situation worse in the process.
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No. 03 · Modality · Trauma-Focused
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
How the brain reprocesses a memory that got “stuck,” without requiring you to narrate it in detail, over and over.
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No. 04 · Modality · Third-Wave CBT
ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
Making room for difficult thoughts and feelings instead of fighting them, so energy goes toward what actually matters to you.
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No. 05 · Modality · Depth-Oriented
Psychodynamic Therapy
Understanding how early experience and unconscious patterns shape the choices and relationships you have today.
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No. 06 · Modality · Body-Based
Somatic Therapy
Working with the body's stored stress response directly, not just the story you tell about it.
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No. 07 · Modality · Expressive
Creative Arts Therapy
When words aren't enough, music, visual art, and movement can reach what talk alone sometimes can't.
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No. 08 · Modality · Couples-Specific
The Gottman Method
Decades of research into what actually predicts whether a relationship thrives or falls apart, turned into a concrete, structured approach.
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No. 09 · Modality · Parts Work
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
You are not one voice in your head. You are made up of many parts, and none of them are the enemy.
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No. 10 · Technique · OCD-Specific
ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention)
The evidence-based approach for OCD: facing triggers on purpose, without performing the compulsion that usually follows.
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Go Deeper
The rest of the library.
Two more ways to learn: the vocabulary clinicians use, and our own research-grounded writing on what actually predicts whether therapy works.
Reference
Clinical Glossary
Plain-language definitions for the terms clinicians use with each other: attachment style, dysregulation, exposure hierarchy, and more.
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Research & Perspective
NYSOM Insights
Original, cited writing on what the outcome research actually says about how therapy works: education, not sales.
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