Therapy Toronto Psychotherapy Definitions

EAP

EAP means an Employee Assistance Program. Such programs are set up by employers for the benefit of their employees.

Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are complex conditions that arise from a combination of long-standing psychological, interpersonal, and social conditions.

Ecotherapy

Ecotherapy holds that the needs and wellbeing of the human psyche are synergistic with the needs of the planet. As a therapeutic modality it draws from depth psychology, ecology, feminism, spirituality and shamanic traditions to create a paradigm where Nature and Earth are seen to have an innate reciprocal healing relationship with us.

EFT

EFT, or Emotionally Focussed Therapy, holds that every individual has a legitimate yearning for a secure attachment to a significant partner.

A secure attachment is understood as a close, trusting relationship in which each person experiences fulfillment of legitimate dependency needs for contact/comfort, and acceptance/safety.

Ego

This term was termed by Freud from the Latin word for 'I' to refer to the ordinary self.

EMI

Eye Movement Integration addresses physical, sensory, and emotional stuckness, experienced after individual or multiple psychological traumas.

Emotional Impasse

Emotional Impasse refers to the troubling feelings that seem persistent and difficult to dislodge, as well as inappropriate reactions to current circumstances.

Empathy

Empathy refers to the capacity to feel, share and understand the emotions of others.

Employee Counselling

Employee counselling refers to the activity of helping employees by counselling them on issues related to work and personal life.

Enactment

An unconscious repetition of a neurotic event.

Existence

Existence is derived from the Greek and is a word whose root meaning mostly escapes us.

Existential

Existential psychotherapy developed as the the rich humanistic literary and philosophic traditions of Europe challenged advanced technology.

Expressive Arts

Expressive Arts therapy according to IEATA, the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association:

The expressive arts combine the visual arts, movement, drama, music, writing, and other creative processes to foster deep personal growth.

Extrovert

In Jung's schema, the extrovert is the person whose psychic energy comes from people and things outside, thus the opposite of the introvert.