The quality of the collaborative relationship between the therapist and client! It is widely considered a primary predictor of treatment outcome.

The process of educating client about their diagnosis, treatment options, copping strategies and overall increasing learning around mental health and wellbeing.

A client’s unconscious redirection of feelings from past relationships onto the therapists. For example, seeing your mother be applied to your therapist.

Think transference but the opposite! This is when the therapist has emotional reactions to the client due to therapists’ own history and dynamics.

The disruption of therapeutic alliance followed by deliberate, often growth producing restoration.

The optimal zone of arousal within a person in which they can engage and effectively manage their emotions and stress. Usually without becoming dysregulated or dissociated. Therapy works to help widen this window while building tolerance towards distress.

Type of framework that recognizes the mind not as single voice, rather a community of inner parts. Each part carries its own history, fears, and protective strategies. Healing involves meeting these parts with empathic curiosity rather than judgment.

A mindful practice that involves putting attention to the body and sensations. The body can be a source of wisdom as emotions, memories, and meaning are held in these sensations, not only in thought. By learning to listen inward is itself a form of healing.

Growth that encompasses not only psychological wellbeing but, the deepening of one’s sense of meaning, connection, and place in something larger than the individual self. For many people, this dimension is inseparable from healing.