Therapy Goals & Interventions

• Increase capacity to experience your full range of emotions

• Gain access to aspects of yourself

• Increase your ability to comfort and soothe yourself and be self-reflective

• Develop strategies to communicate effectively with others

• Feel more connected and honest with yourself

• Tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty

• Think more creatively and openly about one’s past rather than to continue to repeat it

• Experience relief from internal constraints and cognitive inflexibility

• Develop a more imaginative and creative mind

• Increase capacity to love and demonstrate care

• Engage in more meaningful and satisfying relationships

• Generate and Instill hope

• Improve ability to self-regulate and self-monitor

• Gain skills to define, observe and communicate your personal boundaries

• Increase the ability to manage distressing emotions and sensations using emotion regulation techniques

• Enhance lateral thinking abilities to creatively problem solve and develop personally

• Develop analytic observational skills to evaluate habitual cognitive interpretations and replace them with conscious intentional responses to the vicissitudes of life experience

• Increase interoceptive attention by practicing sensory awareness and grounding techniques to explore the internal atmosphere of your mind and body

• Formulate a cohesive self-narrative to make peace with the past and experience the freedom to envision your future

Reference: Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis: A Guide to Practice, Study, and Research by Roy Barsness