Do you know what psychological counseling methods are available for psychological problems (depression and anxiety)?

There are many methods of psychological counseling. Different psychological problems need to choose different counseling methods according to specific conditions, which is called "the right medicine" to better solve psychological problems. Common psychological counseling methods are as follows:

1. Cognitive behavioral therapy for depression includes cognitive and behavioral aspects: First, the main goal of cognitive therapy is to help patients identify their own prejudices, correct unreasonable cognitive patterns, realize cognitive reconstruction, including misinterpretation of past experiences and false prediction of the future, and help patients with depression clarify some problems and correct their false assumptions. Second, behavioral therapy mainly studies patients' behavioral abnormalities, and does not deal with patients' subjective experiences. Based on conditioned reflex theory, it helps depression patients to establish new reflex patterns, including behavioral and psychological patterns, by keeping diaries, participating in recreational activities, relaxing training and improving social skills. Through these cognitive and behavioral ways, we can help people with depression and finally get out of painful emotions and thinking.

2. Anxiety ① Behavioral therapy, visitors can also conduct behavioral therapy under the guidance of psychotherapists (consultants). For example, relaxation training, how to relax every time you are anxious, should be discussed with the psychotherapist (counselor). Common ones are imagination relaxation, deep breathing relaxation and muscle relaxation. If your therapist can hypnotize, you can also do hypnotic relaxation therapy.

(2) Cognitive therapy, visitors can discuss some ideas and opinions with psychotherapists (psychological counselors), because it is very important for anxiety patients to find and change some logical cognitive errors, such as overestimating negative events and exaggerating the possibility of failure.

(3) Psychodynamic therapy helps patients to further understand the subconscious aspects of their diseases, so that patients can control their symptoms and abnormal behaviors and respond to emergencies.

In addition, it is mentioned in the psychological counseling method of anxiety disorder that hypnotherapy is also a good psychological counseling (or treatment) method. Hypnotherapy can generally be applied to the consultation, solution and recovery of various psychological problems, and can be applied to all aspects of life. Specific can refer to these two articles, understand the role and benefits of hypnotherapy:

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In short, there are different methods of psychotherapy. Which method to use depends on which method the visitor is suitable for, or which method they are willing to accept, and how the therapist works. When the symptoms are serious, it is necessary to carry out psychotherapy and drug treatment at the same time, plus hypnotherapy as an auxiliary treatment. It should be noted that drug treatment needs to be carried out under the guidance of a professional doctor.