07/22/2025
We asked AI for some advice and this is what it said. I must say, not bad!
🔍 If you're looking for insight and self-understanding:
- Psychodynamic Therapy: Explores unconscious patterns, childhood experiences, and relational dynamics.
* Good for deep self-exploration and long-term emotional growth.
🧠 If you want practical tools and structure:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): Helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours.
* Great for anxiety, depression, OCD, phobias, and habit change.
💛 If you’ve experienced trauma:
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing): Targets traumatic memories using bilateral stimulation.
* Highly effective for PTSD and trauma processing.
- Somatic Therapy: Focuses on how trauma lives in the body.
* Useful when talk therapy feels “stuck” or overwhelming.
🫂 If your struggles are relational:
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT): Excellent for couples or attachment work.
*Explores how emotional needs drive behaviours in relationships.
- Internal Family Systems (IFS): Helps explore your “inner parts” (like inner critics, protectors, or wounded parts).
* Good for self-compassion, trauma, and inner conflict.
🌱 If you want a holistic, person-centered approach:
- Humanistic or Person-Centered Counselling: Emphasizes empathy, non-judgment, and your inner wisdom.
* Great if you want to be met with openness and curiosity.
🧘♀️ If you’re drawn to mindfulness or spirituality:
Mindfulness-Based Therapy: Integrates spiritual or existential elements.
* Helps with stress, identity, meaning, or spiritual crisis.
Not sure what you need?
Many counsellors integrate multiple approaches, which can be ideal if you want a blend of insight, skills, and emotional support. This is often called integrative or eclectic therapy.
