IFS (Internal Family Systems)
A psychotherapeutic model viewing the mind as a system of sub-personalities ('parts') organized around a compassionate core Self, offering a non-pathologizing path to trauma healing.
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A psychotherapeutic model viewing the mind as a system of sub-personalities ('parts') organized around a compassionate core Self, offering a non-pathologizing path to trauma healing.
An integrative third-wave therapy combining CBT, mindfulness and dialectical philosophy, initially designed for borderline personality disorder and extended to intense emotional dysregulation.
A structured, scientifically validated psychotherapy that identifies and modifies dysfunctional thoughts and maladaptive behaviors to treat anxiety, depression and numerous psychological disorders.
A third-wave therapy targeting not thought content but metacognitive processes — the beliefs and mental strategies that maintain pathological rumination and worry.
An integrative approach combining CBT, attachment theory and psychodynamic concepts to identify and transform early maladaptive schemas from childhood that perpetuate psychological suffering.
A structured behavioral treatment for depression that breaks the cycle of withdrawal and avoidance by scheduling valued and meaningful activities.
Kundalini Yoga, taught in the West by Yogi Bhajan, is the "yoga of awareness." It combines postures, powerful breathwork, mantras, and meditations to awaken the dormant Kundalini energy at the base of the spine.
A psychotherapy using visual art creation (painting, drawing, modeling, collage) as therapeutic mediation to express and transform psychic conflicts beyond words.
Therapeutic use of reading and writing to foster emotional expression, awareness, narrative restructuring and the psychic healing process.
A therapy using music and sound (listening, improvisation, composition) as therapeutic mediators to improve physical, emotional and cognitive health.
A personality theory and psychotherapy method created by Eric Berne, analyzing transactions (exchanges) between three ego states (Parent, Adult, Child) to improve communication and relationships.
A system of human integration through movement, music and group encounter, created by Rolando Toro, aimed at stimulating the genetic potentials of life expression: vitality, sexuality, creativity, affectivity and transcendence.
A body psychotherapy using movement and dance as the primary process of communication and expression to promote psycho-body integration.
A transpersonal approach developed by Roberto Assagioli integrating psychoanalysis, Eastern philosophy and spiritual dimension for harmonious synthesis of all personal dimensions.
A philosophical therapeutic approach exploring fundamental concerns of human existence — death, freedom, isolation and meaning — to help live more authentically.
A humanistic, experiential approach founded by Fritz Perls, focused on present-moment awareness, the contact-withdrawal cycle and personal responsibility for a more authentic life.
An existential psychotherapy founded by Viktor Frankl, centered on the search for meaning as the primary force of human motivation, born from his concentration camp experience.
A humanistic approach founded by Carl Rogers based on three essential therapeutic conditions — empathy, unconditional positive regard and congruence — to release the natural actualizing tendency.