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Individual psychological therapy refers to the therapeutic interaction contracted between a trained therapist and a client. The “client” may be a child, teenager, or adult. The problems or difficulties addressed are psychological in nature and differ from case to case. The most important goals are to increase self-awareness and to improve current functioning as well as interaction with others. The therapeutic process ultimately acts as a bridge towards the attainment of identified goals. 

Family therapy can be described as a therapeutic intervention that focuses on altering the interactions between and among family members and seeks to improve the functioning of the family as a unit and the functioning of the individual members of the family. 

Family therapy has several goals: To resolve or reduce conflict and anxiety within interpersonal relationships, to enhance the perception and fulfillment by family members of one another’s emotional needs, to promote appropriate role relationships, and to strengthen the capacity of individual members and the family to cope with stressors in the outside environment. 

Play therapy is a process whereby the trained therapist allows the child to explore, at his or her own pace and with his or her own agenda, those issues past or current, that is affecting the child’s life in the present. The therapeutic intervention focusses on the improvement of emotional, behavioural, and social problems. The child’s inner resources are enabled by the alliance between the therapist and the child, to bring about growth and change. Play therapy is child-centered, play being the primary medium and speech the secondary medium. Some indicators for play therapy include trauma, adjustment to stressful life events, loss or bereavement, depression, anxiety, phobias, social difficulties, attachment difficulties, behavioural difficulties, emotional regulation difficulties, frustration tolerance difficulties, self-esteem problems, and sleeping difficulties.  

Francine Shapiro developed Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in 1987 to successfully treat Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Since then, EMDR has been used to effectively treat a wide range of mental health problems. The notion of EMDR is that the mind can often heal itself naturally, in the same way as the body does. Much of this natural coping mechanism occurs during sleep, particularly during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. EMDR utilizes this natural coping mechanism to assist clients in the process of resolving a variety of barriers.

The goal of relationship therapy is to treat problems from the perspective of bringing together all involved parties. That is, focusing on the relationship as comprising of complex interactions, rather than discrete problems of distinct members of the unit. The aim is to psychologically modify the interaction of two persons who conflict with each other over one or more parameters (e.g., social, emotional, sexual, or economic).