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Need to read the given reading and provide 5 Counseling Technique Word limit: Atleast 15 words Please provide Techniques straight to the point, no explanation/nSara is a 45-year-old recently separated mother

of two school-aged children. She has recently sought the services of a local human services agency at the request of her divorce attorney who believes her periodic bouts with depression and anxiety conditions she has struggled with for years may impact her custody case. Sara described in her first session how she has struggled with bouts of depression and anxiety since she was a teenager, Sara shared that her depression manifested as melancholy, with low energy, intense sadness, loss of appetite, negative thinking, and a general feeling of malaise. During these periods, Sara disclosed that she had tremendous difficulty completing tasks, such as keeping her home clean, cooking dinner for her kids, and, at times, even mustering the motivation to shower regularly. She also tends to drink more alcohol when she's depressed and anxious, but loses her appetite when she's feeling down, and just wants to sleep all the time. Sara described her anxiety as a sense of foreboding, where she feels like something bad is going to happen to her. Part of her knows these fears are likely irrational, but she also wonders if some mysterious force is warning her about an impending threat. Because she isn't always sure what's causing her fears, she often withdraws and doesn't want to leave her home, sometimes for weeks at a time. Sara has struggled with substance abuse through the years, including an opioid addiction In her early adulthood for which she underwent residential rehabilitation. Sara shared how her depression and anxiety got worse after her husband filed for divorce. She explained that the divorce proceedings have been very contentious and rather traumatic, largely due to a protracted custody battle and having to find a job after being home with her kids for years. In subsequent sessions, Sara shared that her depression and anxiety began when she was about 14 years old, shortly after her childhood home caught fire during the night when she and her family were sleeping. Everyone got out, but her younger brother later died from smoke inhalation. Sara talked about how this traumatic event seemed to get lumped onto earlier traumatic events related to her father's alcoholism and her mother's depression, a considerable amount of neglect, and the subsequent divorce of Sara's parents. Sara shared how she couldn't sleep for months after the fire because she kept replaying the various events that night in her head again and again-waking up to the smoke alarm, seeing flames, having to escape through an upstairs window, and watching her younger brother taken away in an ambulance. Sara described how she has beaten herself up for years because she saved herself but didn't stay behind and look for her brother, who hid in his smoke-filled closet until firefighters found him. She shared that there are times even now where she can think about almost nothing else, and she worries all the time about her own home burning down, especially if her kids are home with a babysitter and she's not there to make sure everyone is safe }

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