Let's Just Chill
This simple breathing technique involves inhaling for 4 seconds, holding for 4 seconds, and exhaling for 4 seconds.
What is Box Breathing?
This term describes the uncomfortable physical or emotional symptoms that can occur when someone stops using a substance.
What is withdrawal?
This type of therapy focuses on changing negative thinking patterns and behaviors.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This condition involves persistent feelings of worry, tension, and nervousness. Doechii would agree.
What is Anxiety?
In this Pixar movie, emotions like Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust live inside a young girl’s mind.
What is Inside Out?
This coping skill involves focusing attention on the present moment by noticing your surroundings, breathing, or bodily sensations.
What is grounding?
This recovery concept encourages people to focus only on staying sober for the present day.
What is One Day at a Time?
This therapy created by Marsha Linehan teaches mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
This condition may include symptoms like low mood, loss of interest, fatigue, and hopelessness.
What is Depression?
This 2017 thriller, directed by Jordan Peele, included hypnotherapy to help "cure" the main character's childhood trauma. Black men could not trust teacups!
What is Get Out?
This coping skill involves intentionally focusing on the present moment without judgement.
What is mindfulness?
This condition occurs when someone struggles with both a substance use disorder and another mental health disorder.
What is co-occurring disorder or dual diagnosis?
Pioneered by Virginia Satir, this type of therapy uses techniques such as family sculpting and role-playing to disrupt unhealthy patterns and foster growth through honest communication and emotional experiencing.
What is Experiential Family Therapy?
This mental health condition can develop after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event.
What is PTSD?
This psychological thriller stars Natalie Portman as a ballerina experiencing intense pressure and mental distress.
What is Black Swan?
This DBT distress tolerance skill encourages changing body chemistry through temperature, intense exercise, paced breathing, and progressive relaxation.
What is TIPP?
In Motivational Interviewing, communication that voices reasons, desire, ability, or commitment to change a behavior.
What is Change Talk?
This therapy approach focuses on exploring how past experiences and unconscious thoughts affect current behavior.
What is Psychodynamic Therapy?
This disorder involves difficulties with attention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity.
What is ADHD?
This movie starring Robin Williams tells the story of a therapist helping a troubled math genius work through trauma and emotional barriers.
What is Good Will Hunting?
In her book Decolonizing Therapy, Mullan describes this as a means of moving beyond "self-care" and prioritizing collective healing, land connection, and emotional freedom to replenish body, mind, and spirit.
What is Energetic Boundaries?
The symptoms related to gambling disorder closely resemble this other condition in the same DSM diagnostic category.
What is alcohol dependence?
This evidence-based treatment helps people process traumatic memories through guided eye movements or other bilateral stimulation.
What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)?
This personality disorder often involves intense emotions, fear of abandonment, and difficulty with relationships.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)?
This film starring Russell Crowe portrays a brilliant mathematician living with schizophrenia.
What is A Beautiful Mind?