Eclectic Therapy

Ready to approach the amazing being that you are, in treatment and counseling? Ready to explore the foundations of therapy?

What is Eclectic Therapy?

Eclectic therapy is a major approach to the relationship in 1:1 talk therapy that integrates many different types of theories. In this model of therapy, what your therapist sees you would thrive from, they deliver. In eclectic therapy, you are welcomed to experience several types of counseling throughout your sessions.

This offers you the priceless experience of working with a specialist that fits through several types of therapeutic applications, where you are introduced to each application, fit your individual situation.

Eclectic therapy may include applications, exercises, or approaches from these modalities:

• Person-centered.
• Gestalt.
• Motivational interviewing.
• Behavioral.
• Cognitive-behavioral.
• Solution-focused brief therapy.
• Psycho-analytic.
• Play therapy.
• Reality therapy.
• Adlerian or individual psychology.
• Transactional analysis.
• Family therapy.
• Family systems therapy.
• Psychoanalytic.

When you take part in the therapeutic relationship in counseling with us at Thoughtwise, we know why we introduce you to the opportunities that we do.

Often the factors that motivate us to introduce you and invite you to certain types of counseling are due to you or your loved one’s current:

• Imagery.
• Cognition.
• Behavior.
• Affect.
• Senses and other areas of functioning.
• Drugs/biology.
• Interpersonal relationships.

How does Eclectic Therapy work?

In eclectic therapy, the counselor attributes their attention to aligning certain applications or treatment models to your specific problems or goals. The major goals in an eclectic approach to your therapy approach to increase health, functioning, and outcomes in many areas of your life.

How eclectic therapy is used in the therapeutic relationship is much like matching your presentations, or wishes, to the counseling model that may bring the best outcome.

The major difference between the types of counseling that you can partake in, often have to do with the role of the therapist, the exercises you focus on, and the major areas of your functioning that you feel need the most attention.

In some therapies, you focus on your thinking and better structuring your thoughts and cognitions. In other therapies, you may focus more on your behaviors, and how your behaviors are or are not problematic. In eclectic therapy, you and your therapist may work to improve several different areas of your life.

Other means of focus that are included in eclectic therapy (an integrative or holistic approach), may be: 

• Your past.
• The present.
• Mindfulness.
• Solutions to your problems.
• Your emotions.
• Your goals.
• Symptomology.
• Neuropsychology. 

These concentrations are among many other areas of your life that can be confronted in eclectic therapy.

If you are ready to work with a therapist that specializes in the eclectic approach to counseling and wellness, please contact us at Thoughtwise at our central location in Tallahassee. We are ready to approach assessment, intervention planning, and you or your loved one’s health through this type of ultramodern approach to therapy.