Temperament
An innate style of responding — speed, sensitivity, adaptability — visible even in a baby.
How it shows up
Some children settle quickly, others need far more help. That isn’t parenting success or failure, but the starting point you work with.
What we do with it in therapy
With parents it relieves guilt; with adults it helps explain where the mismatch lay between their temperament and the surroundings they were given.
See also
Creativity
The capacity to make something that wasn't there before — including when it isn't art.
Avoidant attachment
A pattern in which closeness or tension automatically triggers withdrawal.
Spirituality in therapy
Room for questions of meaning, faith and the transcendent — when they matter to a person.
