Therapy Toronto Psychotherapy Definitions

Da-Sein

This is a central concept within Daseinsanalysis and shorthand for our individual way of 'being-in-the-world'.

Dance Therapy

Dance therapy employs one of the oldest basic forms of human expression as a means to help people express and manage emotional issues.

Daseinsanalysis

The 'analysis of 'being-there' as a human being amid others, Daseins as it is often called is a therapeutic modality that is particularly useful in this era post-modern confusion about our core humanity.

DCTP

DCTP is a credential provided by the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy, a private Toronto training school.

It represents completion of a training program involving individual and group therepy and theoretical work.

Defenses

Defenses as described by Freud were psychic structures erected to defend and protect the treasures of the soul.

Depression

Depression is one of the most common reasons that people seek therapy.
It is a chronic ‘down’ mood takes the lustre out of life, and includes feelings of worthlessness and incompetence, physical debility and fatigue, loss of libido, increased irritability, difficulty sleeping, lack of interest in life, poor appetite, increased anxiety, thoughts of suicide, and lack of hope.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is an effective approach towards the resolution of borderline personality disorder developed by Marsha Linehan

Dialogue

To speak with another is a dialogue, though in psychotherapy the dialogue assumes a particular flavor and intensity.

Dip ATPPP

This stands for Diploma in the Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, a private training institute in Toronto.

Dip GIT

This refers to a credential earned at the Gestalt Institute of Toronto.

Dip NSPC

Dip. NSPC stands for the diploma awarded by the New School of Psychotherapy & Counselling.

Dip PEB

Dip PEB stands for Diploma in Psychotherapy and Emotional Bodywork, granted by the Institute for Psychotherapy and Emotional Bodywork, a private training institute in Toronto.

Dip RC

Dip RC is a professional diploma.

Dip TIRP

Dip TIRP stands for the diploma awarded by the Toronto Institute for Relational Psychotherapy, a private psychotherapy training institute.

Dissociation

Feeling disconnected from ones actions or feelings. Sometimes spontaneously behaving in a certain way without being aware of the reason.

One may experience feeling emotionally, physically, or intellectually, numb.

Divorce

Many men and women seek help while going through a divorce.

It is a time of great emotional upheaval, leaving one often very anxious as there are so many unknowns.

Drama Therapy

Drama therapy focuses on the client as a whole, unique individual, and emphasizes working on the here and now, at times an imagined here and now.

Drama therapists believe that imagination and creativity are the safest and shortest routes toward healing, and strive to place the client in an imaginary space where they are free to both be imaginative and creative, better able to confront their fears and emotions, and thereby better able to understand them.

Dreamwork

Dreamwork refers to the interpretation of dreams as a central aspect of human psychic activity. It has a long and ancient history and is central to the experience of psychodynamic therapy.
Dreams are a reflection of sub-conscious psycho-emotional material rising into consciousness to be resolved consciously through therapy.

Learning methods of dream interpretation allows one to understand the message of the dream.

DT

DT designates a Drama Therapy specialization at the post-graduate level.