[lunatic soul]

I know there are many ways of therapy.
I am searching for a new T, because sadly I cant see my ex T. She was working as cognitive behavioral T and I liked that way of therapy more then psychodynamic.

I would be interesested to hear in what kind of therapy you are and why did you chose this way? Do you like it? Does it seem best for you? Have you tried another one?

Sorry if there were a thread about it, Im searching for a T and its always good to hear other's choices and reasons. I think I will search for someone who also works as cognitive behavioral T but Im not sure yet.
Im sad I cant see my T anymore but I understand why, I really would want her as my T but she cant so I have to find another one and start again from the begining...

[junkDNA]

Psychodynamic, relational, schema

Schema therapy, dialectical behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy

[seeker33]

My therapist tried CBT at first, which didn't fit me at all and I hated it. Now we do talk therapy, with elements of humanistic, mindfulness, art, somatic experiencing

[ElectricManatee]

My T primarily does relational therapy, which works really well for me. I also had good success with humanist/feminist therapy before. I like therapists who are genuine people, who see therapy as a collaboration between therapist and client, and who are comfortable discussing and working with the therapeutic relationship. I didn't have much luck with CBT, although I'm glad some people do.

[MoxieDoxie]

EMDR and the other one just listens to be *****.

[feileacan]

contemporary psychoanalysis

[ChickenNoodleSoup]

CBT as well as psychodynamic. Both help, I like both. I couldn't do just cbt on its own, just psychodynamic would be fine, that's what we mostly do right now. I have not tried any other forms of therapy.

Gestalt. It's hard.

[Carmina]

Originally Posted by long_gone

Gestalt. It's hard.

Did that years ago - it was worth it (got me through a difficult time)

Currently Art therapy (Relational embodiment approach)

[Lemoncake]

Psychodynamic.

[bobcat21]

I see my therapist but I see go to CBT since she doesn’t do CBT.

[fille_folle]

Psychodynamic, I think. My T's have never really talked about it. Previous T combined lots of things, CBT, ACT, DBT, lots of talk about self compassion, mindfulness, etc.

[stopdog]

The woman claimed to do psychodynamic and so did the second one. If they were both psychodynamic - they were very different from each other.
Right now I am doing my own authored sort of grief therapy with the second one.
I found CBT to be actively damaging.

[Anne2.0]

If my T has an orientation, it's mindfulness-humanistic. Humanistic in the sense that he focuses on my strengths and mindfulness in the sense that we work on my awareness of myself and reflective rather than reactive responses.

[starfishing]

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy. CBT wasn't my thing at all, so I'm definitely staying away from that and other behavioral approaches in the future. I've had other therapists who said they were psychodynamically oriented who were more eclectic/all-over-the-place theoretically than my current therapist, who specifically says that even when he's not doing full psychoanalysis, he's still taking an analytic approach. It's working well so far--the fact that he's very grounded in a certain set of theories hasn't translated to a general lack of flexibility or responsiveness the way I was afraid it could. On the contrary, I've found this approach to be usefully flexible and individualized in a way that promotes growth and progress.

[LustStarrr]

I've found Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) to be the most beneficial for me. It's one of the 'new wave' or 'third wave' therapy styles which has been created from the basis of CBT, along with Mindfulness-Based CBT (M-CBT), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), & Metacognition Therapy (MCT).

I particularly like DBT because it seems like more of an equal power dynamic, & involves mutual agreement with your therapist as to how the sessions will be conducted, & the behaviour that's expected of you, which I found addressed a lot of my uncertainty & reluctance about engaging in a therapeutic relationship prior to that.

If you have the opportunity to engage with a therapist who's trained in any of the aforementioned therapy styles, I'd encourage you to give them a go, & see whether it appeals to you. I've found that I've always felt cared for & encouraged by those who I've worked with who are trained in these styles, & it's been so heartwarming to feel I'm valued & my outcomes matter. I hope you can find someone who's equally beneficial to you soon, all the best! X

[MRT6211]

CBT/DBT/solutions-focused therapy. It has completely changed my life (for the better).

[tomatenoir]

Transpersonal, mostly. Though it's mixed in with art therapy, Gestalt and psychodynamic. My therapist also has a serious crush on Carl Jung, and he likes to bring up archetypes. I know he does dream analysis too.

I figured I needed someone who could tear me away from my relentless need to be rational and logical at all times, as that strategy clearly wasn't working. CBT was a failure for me. I chose my therapist because his views are at odds to mine. He's a bit of a mystic, I think.

I'm lucky that my therapist has always let me lead the way, and I've surprised myself in some of the ideas of his I have accepted and which have been helpful. I have more and more respect for how he works.

[88Butterfly88]

Image Re-Scripting And Reprocessing

[zoiecat]

Trauma based CBT, DBT, Mindfulness and EMDR. We also work with my DID but I don't know what technique that is. He also specializes in other things like prolonged exposure therapy but we do not do that.

From what I've read about the waning popularity of psychodynamic therapy I'm surprised to see how many people on this board use that. I don't think that would be very good for dealing with trauma because I already know why I think and act the way I do and I can't remember half of my childhood due to dissociation from extreme abuse.

[maybeblue]

I mostly gravitate toward CBT therapists. I have also found that some systems therapy is helpful. I'm just learning about mindfulness, and initially I was resistant but now I am warming up to it.

I will say that I had a very horrible experience with a psychodynamic therapist. She wanted to blame everything on my parents, and I'm not saying that I had no trauma in my childhood, but it wasn't all from my parents, but she didn't want to hear anything about anyone else. Also she really strained my relationship with my mother...because she blamed her for "not protecting" me. And my mom was a really good mother who did the best that she could.

[alpacalicious]

First T CBT and it really helped me in the short term, it's very goal oriented and you can see that you are making progresses.
Second T jungian but had an awful therapist.
I dont know about my new T, I didn't choose her but came to her after an hospitalization, but it seems psychodinamic.

[feileacan]

Originally Posted by zoiecat

From what I've read about the waning popularity of psychodynamic therapy I'm surprised to see how many people on this board use that. I don't think that would be very good for dealing with trauma because I already know why I think and act the way I do and I can't remember half of my childhood due to dissociation from extreme abuse.

That's a very interesting opinion to my mind. For me it is exactly *because* I already know why I think and act the way I do I find psychoanalytic therapy useful - because it focuses on unconscious feelings and not hashing on conscious intellectual stuff that I know so well. That's precisely why for me for instance CBT seems complete waste of time.

DID/trauma therapy