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Recovery of Hope - Therapists & Forms of Therapy
THERAPISTS
Recovery of Hope counsellors must have a Masters degree, belong to a professional organization with a code of ethics and be sensitive to spiritual issues. We currently have two Registered Social Workers on staff. We do not offer services with a Registered Psychologist at this time.
FORMS OF THERAPY PRACTICED BY RoH COUNSELLORS
There are many techniques of doing therapy.
The most important part of counselling is not a technique – it is making sure that the relationship between the counsellor and client is open and healthy. Studies have shown that what makes therapy work is this relationship, regardless of what techniques are used.
Some of the most popular therapy techniques these days are:
Client-centred: This is the basis for all the therapy done at RoH. Therapy is focused on what the client wishes to achieve, and takes what s/he says as guidance for the way therapy proceeds. The client can discuss anything on his/her mind and know that s/he will be listened to without judgment or criticism. The clients’ abilities and strengths are honoured and supported. Therapists know that clients are able to make their own choices, and RoH counsellors respect each person’s responsibility for her/his own life. The most famous client-centred theoretician was Carl Rogers.
Solution-focused: The emphasis is on what’s already going well and how to increase the good things in people’s lives. If a person’s experience is negative, this technique searches for the exceptions to the negative and expands the place those exceptions have in a person’s life. This technique may be especially helpful for couples, parent/child or brief therapy.
Narrative: The emphasis is on hearing a person’s story as s/he tells it right now, and helping the person tell a more positive story (by living a new narrative) that has meaning and hopefulness. This technique may be helpful for people who are not seriously depressed, anxious or in a crisis. Individuals in their late teens/early twenties who are learning about their independent identity, or middle-aged people wondering about what life has to offer them may find narrative therapy helpful.
Emotion-focused Therapy (EFT): Couples discover their ways of connecting and learn to deepen and foster emotional closeness as they sort through the specific difficulties they are going through. How a couple struggles with its issues gives clues about how couples are attached. This therapy brings couples to greater emotional intimacy and security. Sue Johnson is one of the main theorists behind EFT.
Systems: A way of thinking about people’s problems that acknowledges that the families, workplaces, faith groups and society in which they live have an impact on the individual/couple/family. These interactions are examined and worked with in the therapy to assist people in dealing with their systems in healthy ways that can actually change the system for the better. This type of therapy is valuable for couples or families, or people who have been oppressed by society, patriarchy or abuse. Some of the theorists that established systems thinking are Satir, Minuchin, Bowen.
Internal Family Systems (IFS): Everyone has parts inside, that are like a family. Sometimes when life is troubling, it is because some parts are not getting along, or are thinking/feeling/acting in ways that cause problems for people. This kind of therapy assists people in getting to know their parts, and working with the parts to improve life. Inside parts have much to teach people about themselves and how they interact with others. IFS is particularly helpful in individual therapy, and in dealing with problems like anger, addictions, self-esteem, fears, abuse. The main theorist is Richard Schwartz.
Self Regulation Therapy (SRT): A psycho physiological approach aimed at diminishing dysregulation in the nervous system, resulting from traumatic events, while increasing neural pathways connected to contentment and joy.
Cognitive Behavioural: Based on the belief that people’s negative emotions come from faulty beliefs about themselves. This therapy helps people identify those faulty beliefs and counters them with the truth. Once people believe what is true, their feelings and behaviour change. Sometimes these changes can also occur by behaving in new ways and learning new habits that result in feeling better about themselves and their relationships. Some prominent cognitive behaviourists are Ellis, Linehan.
Depth therapies: This category includes—
Growth in Connection – Jean Baker Miller, Irene Stiver, Judith Jordan
Attachment – Bowlby
Object Relations – Kernberg, Mahler, Winnicott
Self-psychology – Kohut
Depth Oriented Brief Therapy (DOBT)
The focus of these types of therapy is on the relationships within individuals that can be connected to difficulties people have in everyday life and relationships. These inner relationships are based on what we learned as children about ourselves and what to expect from others. Attention is focused on the interactions between the therapist and client, because they are examples of what a person has inside him/herself. Change occurs as people experience themselves in new ways in the therapy relationship. They then also have greater freedom and enjoyment in their daily lives. Depth therapies are most helpful for people who are struggling with unhealthy patterns in relationships, who are interested in understanding themselves, who have character traits they’d like to change, who are having reactions to events that are larger than what might be expected. This type of therapy can be short-term, but can also take a lot of time.
Spirituality: People have bodies, minds, souls, spirits, emotions and relationships. People’s spirituality can make an important contribution to feeling healthy and well. RoH therapists have training and experience in understanding how people’s spiritual experiences can help them grow in self-awareness, relationship health and feeling/being connected to God. RoH therapists also understand that religion has often contributed to people’s problems. If positive or negative spiritual experiences are raised by clients in the therapy, RoH counsellors welcome discussing them with clients.
Recovery of Hope counsellors must have a Masters degree, belong to a professional organization with a code of ethics and be sensitive to spiritual issues. We currently have two Registered Social Workers on staff. We do not offer services with a Registered Psychologist at this time.
FORMS OF THERAPY PRACTICED BY RoH COUNSELLORS
There are many techniques of doing therapy.
The most important part of counselling is not a technique – it is making sure that the relationship between the counsellor and client is open and healthy. Studies have shown that what makes therapy work is this relationship, regardless of what techniques are used.
Some of the most popular therapy techniques these days are:
Client-centred: This is the basis for all the therapy done at RoH. Therapy is focused on what the client wishes to achieve, and takes what s/he says as guidance for the way therapy proceeds. The client can discuss anything on his/her mind and know that s/he will be listened to without judgment or criticism. The clients’ abilities and strengths are honoured and supported. Therapists know that clients are able to make their own choices, and RoH counsellors respect each person’s responsibility for her/his own life. The most famous client-centred theoretician was Carl Rogers.
Solution-focused: The emphasis is on what’s already going well and how to increase the good things in people’s lives. If a person’s experience is negative, this technique searches for the exceptions to the negative and expands the place those exceptions have in a person’s life. This technique may be especially helpful for couples, parent/child or brief therapy.
Narrative: The emphasis is on hearing a person’s story as s/he tells it right now, and helping the person tell a more positive story (by living a new narrative) that has meaning and hopefulness. This technique may be helpful for people who are not seriously depressed, anxious or in a crisis. Individuals in their late teens/early twenties who are learning about their independent identity, or middle-aged people wondering about what life has to offer them may find narrative therapy helpful.
Emotion-focused Therapy (EFT): Couples discover their ways of connecting and learn to deepen and foster emotional closeness as they sort through the specific difficulties they are going through. How a couple struggles with its issues gives clues about how couples are attached. This therapy brings couples to greater emotional intimacy and security. Sue Johnson is one of the main theorists behind EFT.
Systems: A way of thinking about people’s problems that acknowledges that the families, workplaces, faith groups and society in which they live have an impact on the individual/couple/family. These interactions are examined and worked with in the therapy to assist people in dealing with their systems in healthy ways that can actually change the system for the better. This type of therapy is valuable for couples or families, or people who have been oppressed by society, patriarchy or abuse. Some of the theorists that established systems thinking are Satir, Minuchin, Bowen.
Internal Family Systems (IFS): Everyone has parts inside, that are like a family. Sometimes when life is troubling, it is because some parts are not getting along, or are thinking/feeling/acting in ways that cause problems for people. This kind of therapy assists people in getting to know their parts, and working with the parts to improve life. Inside parts have much to teach people about themselves and how they interact with others. IFS is particularly helpful in individual therapy, and in dealing with problems like anger, addictions, self-esteem, fears, abuse. The main theorist is Richard Schwartz.
Self Regulation Therapy (SRT): A psycho physiological approach aimed at diminishing dysregulation in the nervous system, resulting from traumatic events, while increasing neural pathways connected to contentment and joy.
Cognitive Behavioural: Based on the belief that people’s negative emotions come from faulty beliefs about themselves. This therapy helps people identify those faulty beliefs and counters them with the truth. Once people believe what is true, their feelings and behaviour change. Sometimes these changes can also occur by behaving in new ways and learning new habits that result in feeling better about themselves and their relationships. Some prominent cognitive behaviourists are Ellis, Linehan.
Depth therapies: This category includes—
Growth in Connection – Jean Baker Miller, Irene Stiver, Judith Jordan
Attachment – Bowlby
Object Relations – Kernberg, Mahler, Winnicott
Self-psychology – Kohut
Depth Oriented Brief Therapy (DOBT)
The focus of these types of therapy is on the relationships within individuals that can be connected to difficulties people have in everyday life and relationships. These inner relationships are based on what we learned as children about ourselves and what to expect from others. Attention is focused on the interactions between the therapist and client, because they are examples of what a person has inside him/herself. Change occurs as people experience themselves in new ways in the therapy relationship. They then also have greater freedom and enjoyment in their daily lives. Depth therapies are most helpful for people who are struggling with unhealthy patterns in relationships, who are interested in understanding themselves, who have character traits they’d like to change, who are having reactions to events that are larger than what might be expected. This type of therapy can be short-term, but can also take a lot of time.
Spirituality: People have bodies, minds, souls, spirits, emotions and relationships. People’s spirituality can make an important contribution to feeling healthy and well. RoH therapists have training and experience in understanding how people’s spiritual experiences can help them grow in self-awareness, relationship health and feeling/being connected to God. RoH therapists also understand that religion has often contributed to people’s problems. If positive or negative spiritual experiences are raised by clients in the therapy, RoH counsellors welcome discussing them with clients.
