When choosing a psychologist or a psychologist you must take into account several things. The first thing is to lose the fear of going to therapy, since they are specialized professionals who will be the ones who can best help you, following your personal needs and your symptoms in question. In addition, you must take into account what the sessions are like, their duration or their price, among many other things.
And if there is something that you can delve into, it is the type of therapy that the professional will use to go to the root of the problem and solve it, which will surely be explained to you during the first sessions. In this article we talk about the types of psychological therapies that you should know with the psychologist Patricia Rosillo, from El Prado Psicólogos. What do they consist of? How is their application? How can they help you? which is the one that will best suit you? Keep reading!
The different psychological therapies
- When you have stress, anxiety, depression or any type of psychological problem, the ideal is to go to a professional so that they can help you overcome any situation. Each psychologist works in a different way, and this is because it will depend, to a large extent, on the technique or therapy that he uses.
- To this day, as Patricia Rosillo tells us, psychology has evolved a lot. There have always been different schools, and from there different frames can be given when working at a therapeutic level. The psychologist, according to her, usually differentiates three main types of psychological therapies: cognitive-behavioral models, psychodynamic currents and neuropsychological therapies.
Cognitive-behavioral models to treat psychological problems
Cognitive-behavioral models are the most famous, the therapy itself. They include cognitive therapies, more behavioral therapies, rational emotional behavioral therapy, therapy focused on brief problem solving… And many others that will help you solve what bothers you so much at the hands of a psychologist.
Characteristics of cognitive-behavioral therapies
This type of therapy essentially focuses on changing people’s beliefs and thoughts. They start from the assumption that people behave in a certain way due to different stimuli, which causes a way of thinking and interpreting reality. And this way of thinking is what generates a way of feeling, and as a result of this we act in one way or another.
As the psychologist tells us, if each of the aforementioned variables is modified, it is assumed that the person “will be able to modify behaviors and, therefore, discomforts”. They are therapies focused from the most practical, they focus more on the present and have a vision towards the future. “Usually, they don’t explore the past as much,” she finishes.
Psychodynamic currents as psychological therapies
In psychodynamic currents we can find various types of therapies, such as psychoanalysis or psychodrama. They also highlight drama therapy, gestalt therapy or systemic therapies, among many others.
Characteristics of psychodynamic currents
These are therapies that are more oriented towards the human relationship, that is, personal relationships. They are characterized mainly because they delve deeper into the past, into the family history and the family of origin of the people. The reason is that these therapies follow the theory that many of the things that happen to us in the present are generated in the past, that is, depending on how we relate, we will develop some symptoms or others, some things or others will happen to us.
According to Patricia Rosillo, therapies based on psychodynamic currents work a lot with the emotional. It is a way of observing the origin of the emotions that a person experiences when they go to psychological therapy to solve a series of problems or symptoms.
Neuropsychological therapies: characteristics
These therapies follow the current of neuropsychology. Generally, it is a job that is carried out with people who have some problem or brain damage, such as accidents or Alzheimer’s, and need to work more on their abilities or the fact of being able to recover them.
Characteristics of neuropsychological therapies
Although it is true that the idea of neuropsychology has always been the previous one, the new currents observe neurobioemotion, that is, how it affects our nervous system when it comes to having a symptom or how to work in an integrated way with our brain so that that symptom really disappears.
They are important techniques today, such as EMDR, brainspotting, mindfulness or clinical hypnosis, all of them work on more remote areas of the brain and are capable of generating deeper psychological changes in people. It is, in short, “work with the brain in a different way in order to achieve much deeper changes “, according to Patricia Rosillo.