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.
Emotion-focused Therapy (EFT) is a unique empirically-based approach, based on methods designed to help people accept, express, regulate, make sense of and transform emotion. Recent years have seen a growth of EFT in individual and couples therapy, both because of its status as an evidence-based treatment, and also because the EFT approach focuses on the development of emotional intelligence and on the importance of secure relationships. Because of these emphases, EFT offers an alternative to more technically-oriented evidence-based treatments.
Emotional Disturbance refers to persistent troubling feelings thatare difficult to dislodge, as well as inappropriate reactions to current circumstances.
Existential psychotherapy operates on the premise that the givens of existence - death, freedom, responsibility, ultimate aloneness and meaninglessness - are thought to give rise to the anxiety inherent in human existence and the longing to be connected to others.
An Experiential process can be applied to different therapies. One theorist writes: "Personal problems and difficulties in living are never just cognitive, never only a question of how something is interpreted or understood. There is always an affective, emotional, felt, concrete, experiential difficulty.