🧠 More Modalities, Including Your Own
We're exploring two answers to the steady stream of modality requests: keep expanding the built-in list, and let you teach Upheal your specific approach.
The built-in list keeps growing, and merging your requests here helps us see which modalities to prioritize next. But we also know the honest truth: the list of therapeutic approaches is effectively endless, and the way you practice AEDP or ISTDP or animal-assisted therapy is not quite the way anyone else does. So the more interesting direction is letting you describe your approach, your framework, your language, even the literature you work from, and having your notes and treatment plans reflect it.
Comment with the modality you need and, just as useful, how you document it: what a good note in your approach looks like, what terms it uses, what it tracks across sessions. That's exactly the input that shapes how we build this.
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Nathan Ghantous
Jul 23
•Merged request
•3 votes
Specialized modality integration
I am a specialist, as many therapists are, and the theoretical modalities in upheal are very general. I would love to be able to upload a specialized therapeutic approach (in my case, it would be the 30-task model for sexual addiction recovery) on my profile so the AI can integrate that information into the notes and treatment plan.
April House MS
Jul 23
•Merged request
•4 votes
Adding to Theoretical Orientation
Is their away to add to the drop down of the Theoretical Orientations ? Wanting to add more to the family treatments i.e. Structural Family Therapy
Ted Faneuff
Apr 23
Hi @April House MS Thanks for the feedback. We actually are working on a better experience for family work within Upheal and more modalities will be uploaded as soon as this is ready. We are very near to rolling this out. Stay tuned!
Erica Lehman
Jul 23
•Merged request
•3 votes
Add to the treatment modalities
Could you please add Mindful Self Compassion as a treatment approach, as well as Grief Therapy and Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy (PGDT).
Ian Singer
Jul 23
•Merged request
•2 votes
AEDP modality
AEDP is one of the modalities I use and I notice that most of the notes seem to sound repetitive and lacking nuance with regard to AEDP assessment and intervention. Perhaps Upheal could be fed more AEDP professional literature, including “Undoing Aloneness… AEDP 2.0”.
Suzanne Kantak
Jul 6
I’m doing the training soon!
Ian Singer
Jul 23
•Merged request
•2 votes
Emotion Focused Therapy
You have Emotionally Focused Therapy among your modalities, but you might be unaware that there are two separate wings to this school. The first was developed by Leslie Greenberg (Emotion Focused Therapy) and an offshoot was developed by Sue Johnson (Emotionally Focused Therapy). Upheal seems to be working with Sue Johnson’s model (very popular), but seems ignorant of Les Greenberg’s (the O.G.). Great texts for learning Greenberg’s model are: Case Formulation in Emotion-Focused Therapy (Goldman and Greenberg); Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy (Greenberg and Goldman); Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy, 2nd Ed (Elliot et al); Transdiagnostic Emotion-Focused Therapy (Timulak and Keogh); Changing Emotion with Emotion (Greenberg); and Shame and Anger in Psychotherapy (Greenberg).
Ryan O'Farrell
Jun 17
Thanks for highlighting this! I noticed that as well that Upheal has Emotionally Focused Therapy, but no Emotion Focused Therapy, which I use regularly. Would love to see the Greenberg branch of Emotion Focused Therapy added to Upheal.
Ian Singer
Jul 6
BTW, I notice that even with Sue Johnson’s Emotionally Focused Therapy, Upheal seems to be filtering individual session through the couples and family modalities of this treatment. Sue Johnson’s model also includes “EFIT” (Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy). The manual is published under the title A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Fitness and Growth in Every Client.
Jonathan Livingstone
Jul 23
•Merged request
•1 vote
Add modality: Relearning Therapy (also called Relearning Experience Process or REP) for treatment plans and session notes.
This is my primary treatment method, about which I’ve written a book, Relearning Therapy (2nd edn).
Part of my intention in using Upheal is to provide notes and case studies which I can use for my next book (anonymous, of course, and impossible to attribute) and my trainings.
Jameca Cooper
Jul 23
•Merged request
•1 vote
Add new Therapy options
CBT for Psychosis and Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy
Katerina Philbrick
Jul 23
•Merged request
•1 vote
recreational therapy modality
Hello. I do home sessions with an isolated elder client, and have been doing some therapeutic recreation/excursions with her. Would it be possible to add that as a modality? Thanks!
April Clark
Jul 23
•Merged request
•1 vote
Additional Modalities
It would be helpful to have Bibliotherapy and Animal Assisted Therapy as options for treatment modalities. I asked about Animal Assisted Therapy over a year ago, but have not seen it get added. In order to get my dog certified as a therapy animal, I have to demonstrate how she is being utilized in sessions, which I cannot do in UpHeal currently. I have been using Expressive Arts in lieu of not having Bibliotherapy available, but pre-UpHeal, Bibliotherapy was a regular Modality/Intervention that I would add to my service notes. Having both of these available would be very beneficial.
Carol Kent
Jul 23
•Merged request
•1 vote
Animal assisted
I’d like something referring to use of a therapy dog as an intervention.