Timing
Although self-help is not the same as one-on-one treatment, I'd still like to provide you with the timing of how I teach these techniques to patients. Hopefully, this will help give you enough time to practice each technique, before moving on to the next one.
Week 1 : Yoga Style (11-Muscle Relaxation, Smiling/Nodding)
Week 2 : Yoga Style (Permission Breath Counting, Sensation Focusing)
Week 3 : Logic Style (Dysfunctional Thought Records)
Week 4 : Berserker Style (Sentence Exposures, "I Feel It" Exposures)
Week 5 : Berserker Style (Sadness Exposures, Anger Exposures, Cathartic Letters, Real-Life Exposures)
Week 6: Assertiveness ("Mind Bombs")
Week 7: Emotion Validation, Neapolitan Assertiveness