Tag Archives: Therapeutic

Play Therapy

It is often difficult to understand the unknown. How can we understand the thoughts of children, when they do not know how to express themselves? Do we just ask? Will they eventually tell us? These remedies may work, but in the event they do not there is, play therapy. Play therapy is designated for children … Continue reading

Gestalt Therapy

In 1964, Paul Goodman stated, “The issue is not whether people are ‘good enough’ for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom”. The institution, in which he would later … Continue reading

Family/Marital Therapy

You are born with family, but you choose your friends.” It can be difficult to establish and sustain a relationship with individuals you are you do not “choose”. Family therapy (a.k.a. couples therapy) is a psychotherapy based atmosphere which implores systems of interactions in an intimate atmosphere. Since the tension is deep, it is often … Continue reading

Cognitive Therapy

In 1967, Ulric Neisser coined the term “cognitive psychology” when proclaiming, “The term “cognition” refers to all processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used. It is concerned with these processes even when they operate in the absence of relevant stimulation, as in images and hallucinations… Given such a … Continue reading

Behavioral Therapy

What comes to mind, when you think of a therapists office? Perhaps, you are lying on a couch, while the therapists takes notes, between his rhetorical questions (“what do you think the problem is?”); or maybe you are sitting in a white room while you study ink blot tests; well the days of stereotypical therapy … Continue reading

Art Therapy

Ernst Ludwig Kirchsner eloquently, stated, “A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.” A quote that has resonated through the minds of artists, and lies as the cornerstone ideology of art therapy. Since the beginning of psychology, it has been known that any form … Continue reading

Addiction Therapists Try To Help Addicted Gamers

Therapists have said that some massive multiplayer online games, in which millions of people co-exist in video-game worlds, are as addictive as crack cocaine. Some youngsters, and adults, are spending so much time playing these games that they have lost touch with the real world. A recent report by Sweden’s Youth Care Foundation described World … Continue reading

How to find and use free online therapy

Technology is booming, and innovations in many industries continue to develop.  One of the main goals of technological innovations of this time is the increase of convenience, specifically, the ability to do more tasks from your home computer chair than ever before. One instance of this added convenience is the innovation of online therapy.  Online … Continue reading

7 Therapeutic Principles in Group Counseling

Human beings learn about themselves very quickly when they are forced to share their feelings with others, especially if the others are in a similar position.  The utilization of this fact is a therapy called group counseling.  Also known as group psychotherapy or group therapy, group counseling is a type of psychotherapy where one or … Continue reading