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Glossary of Terms
An approach that helps clients accept difficult thoughts and feelings rather than fighting them, while committing to actions that align with their personal values.
Uses drawing, crafts, and other creative activities as a way for clients — especially children and teens — to process and express emotions that may be hard to put into words.
Draws on the understanding of how early relationships shape the way we connect with others, and uses this insight to support healthier relationships and emotional security today.
Uses guided breathing techniques to help calm the nervous system, reduce stress, and build a greater sense of body awareness and emotional regulation.
A structured, evidence-based approach that helps clients identify and shift unhelpful thought patterns and behaviours that contribute to anxiety, depression, and other struggles.
A specialized, evidence-based therapy for trauma and PTSD that helps clients examine and reframe unhelpful beliefs that developed after a traumatic experience.
Helps clients develop self-compassion and reduce self-criticism, especially useful for those who struggle with shame, self-judgment, or a harsh inner critic.
Combines cognitive-behavioural techniques with mindfulness to help clients manage intense emotions, tolerate distress, and improve relationships.
A warm, validating approach that helps clients identify, understand, and process their emotions in order to move through them and build self-awareness.
A structured, evidence-based therapy that helps the brain reprocess distressing memories, often used to support healing from trauma.
Involves working with the family system as a whole to strengthen communication, connection, and support around a client's growth and healing.
Centres on the client's own capacity for growth and self-understanding, emphasizing empathy, acceptance, and the therapeutic relationship itself as a source of healing.
Views the mind as made up of different inner "parts" (such as a protective part or a wounded part) and helps clients understand and bring balance to these parts with self-compassion.
Focuses on how relationships and life events affect mood and emotional well-being, helping clients improve communication and connection with others.
Teaches present-moment awareness and non-judgmental observation of thoughts and feelings, helping reduce stress, anxiety, and reactivity.
A collaborative, client-centred style of conversation that helps clients explore and strengthen their own motivation for change.
Helps clients explore and reshape the stories they tell about their lives, supporting them in making sense of experiences and finding new meaning.
Incorporates the outdoors, movement, and hands-on experiences into therapy, offering an alternative to traditional office-based sessions.
Focuses on helping the body's stress-response system move out of "survival mode" and into a calmer, more regulated state.
An evidence-informed approach for chronic pain that helps the brain and body "unlearn" pain signals that are no longer serving a protective purpose.
Specialized support for the emotional experiences of pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period, including adjustment, mood changes, and loss.
An approach built on unconditional positive regard, empathy, and genuineness, trusting clients to lead their own process of growth and healing.
Uses play — a child's natural language — as a way for children to express feelings, work through experiences, and build coping skills.
Focuses on strengths, gratitude, and what is going well in a client's life, alongside addressing difficulties, to support overall well-being.
A complementary, holistic practice that uses gentle touch or presence to promote relaxation and a sense of balance; offered as an optional addition to talk therapy.
Focuses on the therapeutic relationship itself, and on patterns in a client's relationships more broadly, as a lens for growth and change.
Teaches concrete, practical tools for recognizing and managing emotions in the moment, so clients feel more equipped to handle day-to-day stress.
A goal-oriented approach that focuses on identifying solutions and building on existing strengths, rather than dwelling extensively on the problem itself.
Recognizes the connection between mind and body, using body awareness and grounding techniques to help release stress and process experiences held physically.
Centres on a client's existing skills, resilience, and resources, building from what is already working rather than focusing only on problems.
An approach that recognizes the widespread impact of trauma and creates a safe, non-judgmental space, ensuring clients never feel re-traumatized in the therapy process.
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