Therapy Skills: Emotion Regulation

Emotion Regulation is the ability to practice control over your emotional state. The goal is NOT to have no feelings but to validate, understand, and express your feelings in an effective, healthy, and appropriate way.

3 practices you may learn about and practice in counseling are:

1. Checking for facts

2. Cognitive Reappraisal: Recognizing the negative pattern your thoughts may have and changing that pattern to one that is more effective for you)

3. Opposite Action

Emotion Regulation Techniques can be learned and practiced in therapy. The content discussed here is for information and education purposes only.

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