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Clinical Approach For Individual, Couples, Family, and Group Counseling

A general description of my methods of helping clients is a high degree of interaction between the client(s) and myself. Counseling is directed primarily at modifying distorted or maladaptive thought processes and related behavioral dysfunction's. Together we identify and modify internalized debilitating automatic thought processes. Develop adaptive rather than maladaptive schema(s) around current intra-inter personal communications and the affected relationships. Procedures utilized to accomplish the above vary and are numerous. Here are a few:

Work together as an investigative team

Encourage self-monitoring and self-help

Develop coping strategies for real losses and actual deficits

Customize therapy interventions

Use gentle humor

Set agenda for therapy sessions

Give constructive feedback to direct the course of therapy interventions

Employ common cognitive therapy and other therapeutic techniques (identifying automatic thoughts)

Role play

Family sculpts

Generate alternatives

Imagery exercises, guided discovery, reflective listening, and journalizing

Maintain a record of dysfunctional-functional thought processes

De-catastrophizing, psycho education, and lifework assignments