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Focusing-Oriented Therapy
Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT) is an experiential therapy that uses Focusing to facilitate growth. Focusing is a process of noticing and attending to the felt sense, the bodily sensed, and the implicit understanding of situations. Focusing is also taught as a self-help skill, but this is different from its use in therapy. In FOT, the therapist uses Focusing in a therapeutic context, for example, to facilitate other therapeutic procedures.
Historical Context
Eugene Gendlin, a philosopher interested in the relationship between explicit and implicit knowing, wanted to see how meanings could be present before they are described. Thinking that psychotherapy must be a place where this happens, he joined Carl Rogers’s clinic at the University of Chicago in the 1960s.
There, a series of studies conducted by Gendlin and others ...
- Behavior Therapies
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Applied Behavior Analysis
- Behavior Modification
- Behavior Therapies: Overview
- Behavior Therapy
- Behavioral Activation
- Classical Conditioning
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Exposure and Response Prevention
- Exposure Therapy
- Functional Analytic Psychotherapy
- Multimodal Therapy
- Operant Conditioning
- Parent–Child Interaction Therapy
- Prolonged Exposure Therapy
- Social Cognitive Theory
- Systematic Desensitization
- Body-Oriented Therapies
- Feldenkrais Method
- Alexander Technique
- Biodynamic Psychology
- Bioenergetic Analysis
- Body-Mind Centering®
- Body-Oriented Therapies: Overview
- Characteranalytical Vegetotherapy
- Concentrative Movement Therapy
- Core Energetics
- Hakomi Therapy
- Holotropic Breathwork
- Integrative Body Psychotherapy
- Orgonomy
- Ortho-Bionomy
- Postural Integration
- Primal Integration
- Primal Therapy
- Pulsing
- Radix
- Rolfing
- Rubenfeld Synergy
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
- Somatic Experiencing
- Yoga Movement Therapy
- Cautious, Dangerous, and/or Illegal Practices
- Classical Psychoanalytic Approaches
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Adlerian Therapy
- Cognitive Analytic Therapy
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies: Overview
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- Critical Incident Stress Management
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Functional Analytic Psychotherapy
- Guided Imagery Therapy
- Impact Therapy
- Method of Levels
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
- Motivational Interviewing
- Multimodal Therapy
- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
- Rational Living Therapy
- Reality Therapy
- Schema Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- Complementary and Alternative Approaches
- Acupuncture and Acupressure
- Advanced Integrative Therapy
- Alexander Technique
- Aromatherapy
- Autogenic Training
- BodyTalk
- Brainspotting
- BreathWork in Contemplative Psychotherapy
- Complementary and Alternative Approaches: Overview
- Contemplative Psychotherapy
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- Emotional Freedom Techniques
- Energy Psychology
- Healing From The Body Level Up
- Healing Touch
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- Herbal Medicine
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- Integrative Forgiveness Psychotherapy
- Meditation
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- Morita Therapy
- Non-Western Approaches
- Prayer and Affirmations
- Rebirthing-Breathwork
- Reiki
- Therapeutic Touch
- Constructivist Therapies
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- Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
- Archetypal Psychotherapy
- Attachment Theory and Attachment Therapies
- Contemporary Psychodynamic-Based Therapies: Overview
- Core Process Psychotherapy
- Cyclical Psychodynamics
- Emotion-Focused Therapy
- Feminist Psychoanalytic Therapy
- Holding Therapy
- Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
- Intersubjective-Systems Theory
- Lacanian Psychoanalysis
- Mentalization-Based Treatment
- Neuropsychoanalysis
- Psychosocial Development, Theory of
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- Self Psychology
- Couples, Family, and Relational Models
- Ackerman Relational Approach
- Attachment-Focused Family Therapy
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- Emotion-Focused Family Therapy
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- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Integrative Family Therapy
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- Multisystemic Therapy
- Narrative Family Therapy
- Psychodynamic Family Therapy
- Relationship Enhancement Therapy
- Solution-Focused Brief Family Therapy
- Strategic Family Therapy
- Structural Family Therapy
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- Systemic Constellations
- Systemic Family Therapy
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- Adventure-Based Therapy
- Animal Assisted Therapy
- Art Therapy
- Bibliotherapy
- Chess Therapy
- Creative Arts and Expressive Therapies: Overview
- Dance Movement Therapy
- Drama Therapy
- EcoWellness
- Impact Therapy
- Improvisational Therapy
- Music Therapy
- Nature-Guided Therapy
- Play Therapy
- Poetry Therapy
- Psychodrama
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- Writing Therapy
- Ego-Oriented Therapies
- Erickson-Derived or -Influenced Theories
- Brain Change Therapy
- Couple and Family Hypnotic Therapy
- Directive Therapy
- Ego State Therapy
- Erickson-Derived or -Influenced Theories: Overview
- Ericksonian Therapy
- Impact Therapy
- Improvisational Therapy
- Interaction Focused Therapy
- Metaphors of Movement Therapy
- Nature-Guided Therapy
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming
- Possibility Therapy
- Psychosocial Genomics
- Self-Relations Psychotherapy
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
- StoryPlay Therapy
- Strategic Therapy
- Existential-Humanistic Therapies
- Daseinsanalysis
- Emotion-Focused Therapy
- Existential Therapy
- Existential-Humanistic Therapies: Overview
- Experiential Psychotherapy
- Focusing-Oriented Therapy
- Gestalt Therapy
- Humanistic Psychoanalysis of Erich Fromm
- Logotherapy and Existential Analysis
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
- Person-Centered Counseling
- Phenomenological Therapy
- Positive Psychology
- Primal Integration
- Primal Therapy
- Process-Oriented Psychology
- Psychodrama
- Psychosynthesis
- Transactional Analysis
- Values Clarification
- Foundational Therapies
- Adlerian Therapy
- Analytical Psychology
- Behavior Therapy
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- Constructivist Therapy
- Ericksonian Therapy
- Existential Therapy
- Feminist Therapy
- Foundational Therapies: Overview
- Freudian Psychoanalysis
- Gestalt Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Person-Centered Counseling
- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
- Reality Therapy
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
- Strategic Therapy
- Group Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories
- Acceptance and Commitment Group Therapy
- Activity-Based Group Psychotherapy
- Adlerian Group Therapy
- Attachment Group Therapy
- Behavioral Group Therapy
- Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy
- Existential Group Psychotherapy
- Focused Brief Group Therapy
- Functional Analytic Group Therapy
- Gestalt Group Therapy
- Group Analysis
- Group Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories: Overview
- Interpersonal Group Therapy
- Interpersonal Integrative Group Therapy
- Intersubjective Group Psychotherapy
- Jungian Group Psychotherapy
- Lacanian Group Therapy
- Modern Analytic Group Therapy
- Process Groups
- Psychodrama
- Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy
- Psychoeducational Groups
- Relational Group Psychotherapy
- Self-Help Groups
- Systems-Centered Group Counseling
- Tavistock Group Training Approach
- Training Groups
- Integrative Approaches
- Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
- Assimilative Psychotherapy Integration
- Biopsychosocial Model
- Cognitive Analytic Therapy
- Common Factors in Therapy
- Contextual Therapy
- Cyclical Psychodynamics
- Developmental Constructivism
- Developmental Counseling and Therapy: Theory and Brain-Based Practice
- Eclecticism
- Emotion-Focused Therapy
- Evidence-Based Psychotherapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy
- Integral Psychotherapy
- Integrative Approaches: Overview
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- Integrative Milieu Model
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy
- Multimodal Therapy
- Multitheoretical Psychotherapy
- Positive Psychology
- Transtheoretical Model
- Unified Theory
- Unified Therapy
- Unifying Nonlinear Dynamical Biopsychosocial Systems Approach
- Neurological and Psychophysiological Therapies
- Autogenic Training
- Biofeedback
- Brain Change Therapy
- Cerebral Electric Stimulation
- Cognitive Enhancement Therapy
- Developmental Counseling and Therapy: Theory and Brain-Based Practice
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy
- Eye Movement Integration Therapy
- Heart Rate Variability
- Hypnotherapy
- Integral Eye Movement Therapy
- Neurofeedback
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming
- Neurological and Psychophysiological Therapies: Overview
- Neuroprocessing
- Neuropsychoanalysis
- Other Therapies
- Brief Therapy
- Chaos Theory
- Common Factors in Therapy
- Cross-Cultural Counseling Theory
- Ecological Counseling
- Evidence-Based Psychotherapy
- Feedback-Informed Treatment
- Metaphors of Movement Therapy
- Other Therapies: Overview
- Pastoral Counseling
- Provocative Therapy
- Re-Evaluation Counseling
- Relational-Cultural Theory
- Self-Relations Psychotherapy
- Sexual Identity Therapy
- Sexual Minority Affirmative Therapy
- Status Dynamic Psychotherapy
- Supportive Psychotherapy
- Theorists
- Ackerman, Nathan
- Adler, Alfred
- Bandura, Albert
- Beck, Aaron T.
- Boszormenyi-Nagy, Ivan
- Bowen, Murray
- de Shazer, Steve, and Insoo Kim Berg
- Ellis, Albert
- Erickson, Milton H.
- Frankl, Viktor
- Freud, Sigmund
- Glasser, William
- Haley, Jay
- Horney, Karen
- Jung, Carl Gustav
- Kelly, George
- Kernberg, Otto
- Klein, Melanie
- Lazarus, Arnold
- Linehan, Marsha
- Madanes, Cloe
- Mahler, Margaret
- Mahoney, Michael J.
- Maslow, Abraham
- May, Rollo
- Meichenbaum, Donald
- Miller, Jean Baker
- Miller, William R.
- Minuchin, Salvador
- O’Hanlon, Bill
- Palo Alto Group
- Pavlov, Ivan
- Perls, Fritz
- Reich, Wilhelm
- Rogers, Carl
- Satir, Virginia
- Seligman, Martin
- Shapiro, Francine
- Skinner, B. F.
- Sullivan, Harry Stack
- Whitaker, Carl
- White, Michael
- Winnicott, Donald
- Yalom, Irvin
- Zimbardo, Philip George
- Transpersonal Psychology
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