Patrick Diorio, MFTC
Patrick Diorio is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Candidate (MFTC) with the state of Colorado on the path to full LMFT licensure. Patrick holds an undergraduate degree in Communication and has earned a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology & Counselor Education (Couple & Family) from the University of Colorado Denver. Patrick has experience as a Street Counselor serving the Denver homeless youths (under 18), an Internship Counselor in an Intensive Outpatient Center (IOP), and a Registered Psychotherapist in private practice, serving adults, teens, children in Individual, Group, Couple, Family counseling. Coauthor of the book, The Integrated Self: Your Guide to Authentic Personal and Spiritual Growth. Former Host of the Live WebTV Show "Making Real Life Better".
Commitment to Growth
Committing to work on and improve your mental health, and to work on your state of being in this world is just that – a commitment, and it’s a big one that will take a lot of work and dedication from you. My commitment to you is to provide accountability, understanding, compassion, guidance, and support to you along your life journey.
Professionalism and Experience
As an experienced psychotherapist, I have the background and understanding to provide expert counseling and life coaching support. I can help you to create the life you imagine and get a renewed sense of self and direction. I have a B.A. in Communication & M.A. in Counseling Psychology & Counselor Education (Couple & Family).
Best Possible Support for your Personal Growth Journey
IS A COACH WHO WAS EDUCATED & TRAINED AS A THERAPIST RIGHT FOR YOU?
Some people interested in coaching prefer to hire a coach who was also educated/trained as a therapist. There are many reasons they may choose to do this:
- There may be comfort in knowing the coach has extensive training in direct service to people.
- If the person brings matters more appropriate for therapy, the coach-trained-as-therapist should know when to redirect and refer.
- Coaches without therapeutic training may not realize when a coaching session is beyond their scope of practice (i.e., may not know when to refer).
- Even if a coach trained as a therapist won’t be able to do trauma resolution or manage chronic mental health issues with you, they should have a deeper level of understanding about those experiences and any processing you may have already done in therapy.
Source of Above Statement is: GoodTherapy | Life Coach, Therapist, or Life Coach Who Was Trained as a Therapist?
Patrick's Therapeutic Counseling & Coaching Approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a short-term form of behavioral treatment. It helps people problem-solve. CBT also reveals the relationship between beliefs, thoughts, and feelings, and the behaviors that follow. Through CBT, people learn that their perceptions directly influence how they respond to specific situations. In other words, a person’s thought process informs their behaviors and actions.
Cognitive behavioral therapy is not a distinct treatment technique. Instead, it is a general term which refers to a group of therapies. These therapies have certain similarities in therapeutic methodology. The group includes rational emotive behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy.
Cognitive behavioral therapy is grounded in the belief that how a person perceives events determines how they will act. It is not the events themselves that determine the person's actions or feelings. These negative thoughts may influence their focus. They may then only perceive negative things that happen. Meanwhile, they may block out or avoid thoughts or actions that could disprove the negative belief system. Afterward, when nothing appears to go right in the day, the person may feel even more anxious than before. The negative belief system may get stronger. The person is at risk of being trapped in a vicious, continuous cycle of anxiety.
Cognitive behavioral therapists believe we can adjust our thoughts. This is thought to directly influence our emotions and behavior. The adjustment process is called cognitive restructuring. Aaron T. Beck is the psychiatrist widely considered to be the father of cognitive therapy. He believed a person’s thinking pattern may become established in childhood. He found that certain cognitive errors could lead to dysfunctional assumptions.
The cognitive behavioral process is based on an educational model. People in therapy are helped to unlearn negative reactions and learn new ones. These are positive reactions to challenging situations.
CBT helps break down overwhelming problems into small, manageable parts. Therapists help people set and reach short-term goals. Then the therapist gradually adjusts how the person in treatment thinks, feels, and reacts in tough situations. Changing attitudes and behaviors can help people learn to address specific issues in productive ways.
Some factors make people more likely to benefit from CBT. People with clearly defined behavioral and emotional concerns may find CBT helpful. Those with specific problems that affect their quality of life can also benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy. People in treatment learn new coping skills to handle their issues. They develop more positive beliefs and behaviors.
Source: Learn about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Therapists (goodtherapy.org)
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is a therapeutic approach based on the premise that emotions are key to identity. According to EFT, emotions are also a guide for individual choice and decision making. This type of therapy assumes that lacking emotional awareness or avoiding unpleasant emotions can cause harm. It may render us unable to use the important information emotions provide.
Therapists qualified in EFT can help people seeking assistance with a range of concerns. These therapists may help people learn to become more aware of their emotions. EFT also allows people to become better at using information provided by adaptive emotions. People may be better able to cope with and decrease negative effects of maladaptive emotions.
In this approach to treatment, the therapist and the person in therapy collaborate in an active process. Both are viewed as equal contributors. The person in treatment, not the therapist, is seen as the person most capable of interpreting their emotional experience. EFT is founded in the idea that emotions should be used to guide healthy, meaningful lives. Its theory is based on a scientific inquiry into the human emotional experience.
Emotion schemes is the core concept of EFT. It was developed largely from these theories of human emotion. Emotion schemes are models that outline how emotion can: Be experienced physically; Cause physiological changes; Influence thinking; Guide future action. EFT helps people both accept and change their personal emotion schemes.
EFT sessions typically center around the development of two key skills. These are: Arriving at one's emotions through increased awareness, and acceptance and learning to transform emotions and better use the information they provide to avoid negative or harmful behaviors or other effects of certain emotions. Therapists practicing this method take a compassionate, non-judgmental, and reflective approach to listening and questioning. This allows the person in therapy to come to a better understanding of their emotions. People learn new ways to use healthy emotions to guide their actions. Emotion coaching may further help people transform and move on from challenging emotions.
EFT is generally thought to have been successful when the person in treatment has an increased awareness of their emotional experience. They may also have an improved ability to regulate emotions and be better able to transform unhelpful emotions.
Through EFT, people may come to see their emotions as valuable sources of information instead of painful or difficult states. They may learn to experience, rather than suppress, these emotions. EFT addresses the regulation and impact of emotions. Emotions impact many mental health concerns.
Emotion–Focused Therapy: Benefits, Techniques & How It Works
Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT)
Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT), also called Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) was developed by Steve de Shazer (1940-2005), and Insoo Kim Berg (1934-2007) in collaboration with their colleagues at the Milwaukee Brief Family Therapy Center beginning in the late 1970s. As the name suggests, SFBT is future-focused, goal-directed, and focuses on solutions, rather than on the problems that brought clients to seek therapy.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach, which incorporates positive psychology principles and practices, and which helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems. In the most basic sense, SFBT is a hope friendly, positive emotion eliciting, future-oriented vehicle for formulating, motivating, achieving, and sustaining desired behavioral change.
Solution-Focused practitioners develop solutions by first generating a detailed description of how the client’s life will be different when the problem is gone, or their situation improved to a degree satisfactory to the client. Therapist and client then carefully search through the client’s life experience and behavioral repertoire to discover the necessary resources needed to co-construct a practical and sustainable solution that the client can readily implement.
Typically, this process involves identifying and exploring previous “exceptions,” (e.g., times when the client has successfully coped with or addressed previous difficulties and challenges.) In an inherently respectful and practical interview process, SF therapists and their clients consistently collaborate in identifying goals reflective of clients’ best hopes and developing satisfying solutions.
The practicality of the SFBT approach may stem in part from the fact that it was developed inductively in an inner-city outpatient mental health service setting in which clients were accepted without previous screening.
The developers of SFBT spent countless hours observing therapy sessions over the course of several years, carefully noting any sorts of questions, statements or behaviors on the part of the therapist that led to positive therapeutic outcome. Questions, statements, and activities associated with clients reporting progress were subsequently preserved and incorporated into the SFBT approach.
Since that early development, SFBT has not only become one of the leading schools of brief therapy, but it has also become a major influence in such diverse fields as business, social policy, education, and criminal justice services, child welfare, domestic violence offender treatment.
Described as a practical, goal-driven model, a hallmark of SFBT is its emphasis on clear, concise, realistic goal negotiations.
Source: What is Solution-Focused Therapy (solutionfocused.net)
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