Broad and General Techniques
- Paying attention
- Listening
- Contradicting the distress
- Loaning confidence
- Putting attention away from distress and on reality
- Directions
- Repeating phrases (repeating a key phrase over and over)
- Allowing the client to rehearse the distress while being pleased with the client and unbothered by the distress
- Self-appreciation
- Validation
- Discharging on earliest memories
- Taking responsibility for everything
- Acting as our inherent, human selves
- Participating in rational activities
- Taking action now and discharging later
- Goal-setting
- Taking or offering a different viewpoint than the one the client had been holding
- Planning to live every moment well
- Strategizing for re-emergence
- Playing games
- Keeping client's and counselor's notebooks up to date
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