Coping Skills
Inhale. This coping skill is available within your own body, it can slow heart rate and lower blood pressure. Exhale.
Breathing Exercises
This therapeutic mode is comprised of a variety of treatments that aim to help a person identify and change troubling emotions, thoughts, and behaviors
Talk therapy (Psychotherapy)
This diagnosis affects nearly 15% (21 million) of Americans. Key symptoms include low mood, loss of interest in once enjoyable activities, decreased concentration, fatigue, and sleep fluctuations.
Depression
This part of the brain is responsible for forming memories, speech and language production and most of the brains dopamine receptors are located here.
Frontal Lobe
This form of therapy is made to change unhealthy patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. A triangle diagram is often used to show how these processes effect each other
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
Using a pen and paper this is a common way to get feelings and struggles out to process without having to talk to others.
Journaling
This mode of therapy involves using songs or musical instruments to process feelings or can be used in patients with brain injuries to regain memories.
Music Therapy
19.1% (40 million) Americans have a diagnosis of this disorder. Common symptoms include intense worrying,
Anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder)
This part of our brain is what triggers the fight, flight, freeze, and fawn response.
The Amygdala
Someone with a degree specializing in treating those who struggle with addiction would hold this abbreviated title
CAC (Certified Addictions Counselor)
This coping skill is a way to comfort yourself using your five senses.
Self Soothing
This mode of therapeutic strategy is used mostly with children. The use of toys can help children open up about the trauma or symptoms they are experiencing.
Play Therapy
This diagnosis can be found among those who have witnessed or first hand experienced a traumatic event. Subsequently have persistently re-experienced unwanted thoughts, flashbacks, emotional distress after triggers, irritability, difficulty concentrating, and hypervigilance.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Prefrontal Cortex
An individual who has obtained a Master's Degree in Social Work as well as completed 3000 hours of supervised clinical practice AND earned a passing score on the licensure board exam will hold this title.
LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker)
This is a sheet usually completed with a mental health provider that lays out a structure for how to respond to distressing events including self harm and suicidal thoughts.
Safety Plan (Response plan, Safety Contract)
This therapeutic mode is specific for relationships and managing communication skills between those in relationships or marriage.
Couples Therapy
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders Vol. 5 this diagnosis is categorized under an anxiety disorder. Symptoms include recurrent, persistent thoughts, urges, or images that cause distress or anxiety. Otherwise known as obsessions. The perceived solution is to repetitively complete compulsions to stop the persistent urges.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
This pair of nerves are part of our parasympathetic nervous system. In times of distress using methods such as breathing pressure and cold temperature to "reset" these nerves can lower heart rate, decrease blood pressure, and calm anxiety
Vagus Nerve or Vagal Nerves
A therapist who has a graduate degree in either Social Work or Psychology, as well as passed the licensing board including completing the 3000 hours of practical work and 1500 hours of clinical work will obtain this abbreviated title. They specialize in couples and family dynamics.
LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist)
Tools such as meditation are used in this practice to help ground and center yourself in the present moment
Mindfulness
This Therapeutic mode involves facing fears and managing the automatic responses.
Exposure and Response Therapy
This diagnosis is given to individuals who face extreme emotional mood swings, self harm, unstable relationships, chronic feelings of emptiness, unclear or shifting self image, and impulsive self destructive behaviors. This diagnosis is extremely stigmatized with in the mental health profession. The main course of treatment involves medication and upwards of 10 years of continued dialectical behavioral therapy.
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
This system structure in our brain is responsible for processing and regulating emotions as well as storing long term memory. It's the part often referred to as "emotional mind"
The Limbic System
This treatment in therapy is focused on treating trauma symptoms. Using a lightbar and pulsators to create bilateral stimulation which, while talking through memories, helps reprocessing and storage of traumatic memories.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)