Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
Acceptance and Commitment (ACT), an outgrowth of CBT, identifies your values (e.g., family, adventure, faith) and uses these values to guide your action. Sometimes the things that trouble us in life are unchangeable (e.g., disease, chronic pain); ACT acknowledges that and uses a series of exercises to help free you from the mental constraints you’ve put on the situation.
Cognitive-Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) examines your thoughts and tries to shift your mood through the power of your mind. It identifies some common thinking patterns (e.g., do you think the very worst will happen to you when events big or small happen to you? That’s called catastrophizing, and we can work to recognize it and change it). In CBT, it’s not the mind alone that changes, behavior change is also necessary to create lasting, meaningful difference.
Emotion-Focused (EFT)
Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) identifies the impact our attachment patterns have on our relationships (how and if we receive or expect to receive love), in addition to our beliefs about our emotions (are my emotions acceptable? Is it okay for me to experience my emotions, have them be heard and understood?). Rather than focusing primarily on the thoughts we think, EFT focusing on the feelings we feel (or don’t allow ourselves to feel) in order to create a new and healthy relationship - first to ourselves, then to others.
Psychodynamic
Psychodynamic therapy is an insight-based therapy that looks at the impact of early life experiences on your adult relationships, mood, how you respond to challenges, and your expectations for the future. With greater insight into your relationships in your past, the goal of psychodynamic therapy is to more consciously approach the feelings and relationships of the present.