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ACT aims to help you understand and accept your emotions, detach from negativity, and make changes to align your behavior with your values.

CBT refers to a structured, goal-oriented type of talk therapy. It focuses on identifying and changing distressing thoughts and behavior patterns. The term CBT covers a number of different trauma therapies such as CPT, PE, and EMDR (see below).

In CPT, the patient and therapist examine the patient’s thoughts and beliefs about the trauma. They work together to evaluate if traumatic experiences have impacted thinking in unsupported ways, and the patient can consider new perspectives.

DBT uses a combination of acceptance and change strategies to help patients who struggle with intense emotional reactions. It teaches coping and problem-solving skills to improve relationships and quality of life.

EFT is a short-term therapeutic approach that helps people improve relationships and manage emotions by building awareness, acceptance, and regulation of emotional responses.

EMDR helps patients process trauma by recalling it while attending to a distracting movement or sound (e.g., finger waving, light, tone). It can reduce the vividness and emotional weight of traumatic memories.

Hypnotherapy uses relaxation and focused attention to enter a trance-like state. This opens up receptiveness to suggestions that can positively alter thoughts, feelings, memories, and behaviors.

IFS helps people understand and heal internal “parts” of themselves, similar to members of a family. Each part has unique roles and intentions, and therapy focuses on bringing harmony among them.

MBT helps patients pause and think before reacting to their own feelings or perceived feelings of others, improving self-awareness and interpersonal understanding.

MBSR uses mindfulness meditation techniques to increase awareness and acceptance, reduce judgment, and alleviate stress and emotional distress.

NET helps individuals re-author their life story through structured storytelling, separating the trauma from their identity and helping them process it more objectively.

PE gradually exposes patients to trauma-related triggers in a safe, therapeutic environment. Repeated exposure can reduce fear and avoidance behaviors.

PT explores how unconscious processes and past experiences influence current behaviors. It can offer insight but may be less effective for trauma than CBT-based methods.

RTM is a guided visualization technique designed to help patients revisit and reframe traumatic memories, aiming to reduce emotional impact by creating safer emotional associations.

Somatic therapy uses mind-body exercises to help patients regain body awareness, release stored tension, and learn to feel safe in their bodies. It may also help with emotional regulation.

TFP focuses on the relationship between the therapist and patient to explore emotions, relationships, and trauma. It emphasizes real-time interactions to examine past patterns.

WET is a short, structured therapy involving writing about trauma over five sessions. It helps reduce distress by helping patients reprocess the trauma and assign new meaning to it.

Art therapy, movement therapy, sand therapy, music, yoga, dance, martial arts (e.g., Qigong, Tai chi), neurofeedback using EEG, vagal nerve stimulation, Pilates, cardio, medication.