Some types of Psychotherapy and Counselling

Resource: The Canadian Mental Health Association

Cognitive-behavioural Therapy
-Explores patient’s negative thoughts, emotions, and self-defeating behaviours and helps a person to learn to recognize and change negative thinking patterns;

Interpersonal Therapy
-Emphasizes development of specific skills in managing relationships (e.g. assertiveness training, adjusting to transitions)
-Focus on person’s identity issues, unresolved grief, and/or social issues;

Group Therapy and Support Groups
-Enables people to meet others who can relate to their issues and compare solutions;

Creative Therapies
-Brief therapy models (e.g. solution-oriented), art therapy, music therapy, play therapy and;

Psychodynamic Therapy
-Discover and resolve previous conflicts/traumas believed to be related to the present depression.