Broad and General Techniques

• Paying attention
• Listening
• Contradicting the distress
• Loaning confidence
• Putting attention away from distress and on reality
• Directions
• Repeating phrases (repeating a key phrase over and over)
• Allowing the client to rehearse the distress while being pleased with the client and unbothered by the distress
• Self-appreciation
• Validation
• Discharging on earliest memories
• Taking responsibility for everything
• Acting as our inherent, human selves
• Participating in rational activities
• Taking action now and discharging later
• Goal-setting
• Taking or offering a different viewpoint than the one the client had been holding
• Planning to live every moment well
• Strategizing for re-emergence
• Playing games
• Keeping client's and counselor's notebooks up to date