Problems result from an inconsistency between your behavior & your true personal identity and lack of ability to make authentic, meaningful, self-directed choices.
Goal: reduce suffering & increase life satisfaction via getting closer to being your ‘ideal self, ’ increasing meaning, authenticity, self-awareness & self-understanding

GENERAL APPROACH

Unstructured conversation between the therapist and the client
Therapist takes a passive role, guiding the you toward your own self-discovery
Therapist does not try to change your thoughts or behaviors directly
Therapeutic relationship as a platform for personal exploration & growth
Therapist present to provide a safe & encouraging environment you to explore issues
An environment free of approval or disapproval, where you come to appreciate your value & to behave in ways that are congruent with your own identity

Exploration of aspects of the self that are not fully known
Exploration of how they manifest & potentially influence the therapy relationship
Including: recurrent fears, desires, habits of thought, patterns of behavior, characteristic ways to avoid difficult emotion, means to maintain self-esteem & ways of relating to others

Identification of recurring patterns of thought, feeling, self-concept, relationship & life experiences

Discussion of past experience especially with early caregivers & siblings
Focus on your interpersonal relationships
Focus on the therapy relationship as a way to understand old & practice new interpersonal behaviors
Exploration of fantasy life including desires, fears, fantasies, dreams & daydreams

cognitive & Dialectical behavioral

Goal is to alleviate psychological symptoms by changing their underlying thoughts & behaviors
Thoughts, behaviors, & emotions interact and contribute to various mental health symptoms
therapy is present-focused (i.e., on the “now” rather than causes from the past, such as childhood relationships)
Uses behavioral goals to improve mental heath.
Dialectical behavioral therapy refers to an approach that uses skills to correct maladaptive tendencies
Looking at the perspective of a dialectical worldview. Rather than thinking of the world as “black & white,” or “only good & only bad,” it focuses on accepting, the “grey, ”that some things can have characteristics of both “good” and “bad.”

Call : 216-299-3810

Email: drellenbronder@gmail.com

Identifying maladaptive, negative, distorted thoughts