Online Therapy

The 1st session will start with history taking and rapport formation. Our therapist will engage with the client to know their thought processes to identify distortions in thinking patterns. Mindfulness training will help the client to increase their awareness about their thoughts and emotions. They would be guided by the therapist to reframe those thoughts to be more positive and productive through mindfulness listening, mindfulness breathing and mindfulness observation. Engaging in this therapeutic process will help to increase the client’s focus and make them more grounded.

The focus of this stage is stabilization. In therapy, people may be dealing with suicidal ideations, self-harm behaviors, stress or addiction. They often report feeling like they are at an all-time low point in their daily lives. Hence, our therapy is centered on safety and crisis intervention. Our therapist’s goal in this stage is to help people achieve some control over their problematic behaviors.

The 2nd-week sessions will focus on Guided Discovery in which the therapist will help the client to identify and focus on the problem situations. This will be centered around emotion regulation wherein the client will learn to identify emotions and reason them out as to why they have been feeling certain emotions. This will help them to understand the difference between negative and positive emotions.

Upon consistent practice of emotional identification and management, they will learn healthy strategies to acknowledge and accept their emotions. Once the client learns to successfully identify different emotions, they will learn to regulate these feelings and learn techniques to replace negative emotions with healthy positive ones. This will be done through intensive interaction during sessions combined with exercises such as journaling, identifying emotions, understanding the ABC model and doing homework, which would require self-work and analysis.

(The above section is factually incorrect. Exposure and response prevention is specifically used to treat OCD and it involves exposing the person the specific situation or people and preventing their response of compulsive behavior that they engage in)

The 3^rd-week of therapy will focus on cognitive restructuring and activity scheduling in which our treatment will focus on finding and altering distorted thoughts to make them more adaptive and reasonable. Clients will identify and schedule helpful behaviors which they connect with. This can include engaging in hobbies or activities, along with using relaxation and stress reduction techniques such as Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR), deep breathing exercises, muscle relaxation, and imagery.
In this stage, our therapist will focus on enhancing the quality of life through maintenance of progress and reasonable goal-setting. The goal of this stage is to promote positive emotions like happiness and to maintain stability.