Resources
Counseling Styles
There are many counseling styles that therapists use in treating their clients. Each style provides its own distinct framework that your therapist uses to understand and help you interpret your experiences, thoughts, and emotions. Understanding these methods can give you greater confidence as you search for a therapist who meets your needs.
Sarasota Grief Counseling predominantly uses four distinct styles of therapy with clients: Art Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy (or EFT), Gottman Method, and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.
Art Therapy
Used to help develop insight or process emotion related to traumatic loss through art techniques. This style helps people identify losses in a nonverbal way, leading to breakthroughs that would not be possible in a traditional conversational style of therapy.
Sand Play Therapy
A projective intervention used to help develop insight, create a healing narrative, and process emotion using existential figures in the sand. This method helps people to tell their story and create meaning from losses and traumatic experiences that would otherwise be undeveloped with traditional methods.
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
EFT is based on clear, explicit conceptualizations of marital distress and adult love. These conceptualizations are supported by empirical research on the nature of marital distress and adult attachment, with the goal being stronger bonds of attachment within the couple.
Attachment- Based Psychotherapy
An insight-oriented approach that focuses on identifying negative patterns of behavior that we repeat in the relationships in our lives. The therapy seeks to uncover these patterns of relating in order to understand and correct them for a better quality of life.
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
Drs. John and Julie Schwarz Gottman are world renowned for their 40 years of work on marital stability and divorce prediction. The Gottman Method is an approach to couples therapy that includes a thorough assessment of the couple relationship and integrates research-based interventions based on the Sound Relationship House Theory.
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Nonfiction Books
GRIEF
- Option B, by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant. Knopf, 2017.
- When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi. Random House, 2016.
- A Grief Observed, by C.S. Lewis. HarperOne, 2015.
ATTACHMENT + EMOTIONS
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Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love, by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller. TarcherPerigee, 2012.
Fiction Books
GRIEF
- Tinkers, by Paul Harding. Bellevue Literary Press, 2009.
Essays
GRIEF
- “Questions for Me About Dying,” by Cory Taylor. The New Yorker, 2017.
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Free Grief Support
GROUPS AND OTHER SOURCES FOR FREE GRIEF SUPPORT
Tidewell Hospice
Offers free grief support groups for losses related to death.
GriefShare
Faith-based free grief support groups for losses related to death.
AlAnon
Offers free support for the loved ones of alcoholics.
NarAnon
Offers free support for the loved ones of those addicted to narcotics and other drugs.