How does Compass Therapy interface with other major schools of counseling and therapy?
Compass Therapy is an eclectic approach to therapeutic psychology that integrates principles from a range of counseling theories that include psychoanalysis, Gestalt, transactional analysis, existential-humanistic, and cognitive-behavioral approaches. Thus, the central tools of Compass Therapy—most notably the Self Compass (Love and Assertion, Weakness and Strength) and the Human Nature Compass (Mind and Heart, Body and Spirit)—can enrich any counselor’s repertoire, including a health model for understanding psychopathology. Much like a cross-platform operating system, Compass Therapy provides a set of principles easily employed by those utilizing any counseling theory. These principles suggest that: self-actualization has both intrapsychic and interpersonal dimensions; spiritual faith strengthens people’s emotional resiliency; a therapist engages a counselee not only in a role, but as a fellow human being; and a therapist should not overly focus on dysfunction, but give equal time to
