Yin-Yang Psychotherapy defines and categories power in people’s mind into two kinds- “Yin” and “Yang”,Yin being the adherence and Yang the activity.
Adherence is the power of self-restricting,leading to self- enclosing,self-repeating,and even self-demolishing. Activity is the power of self-fulfillment. When the activity is in advance of the adherence,the latter is repressed,and vice versa. At the time when the activity dominates,the individual is empowered,happy and self-satisfied. When the adherence dominates,the individual tends to be passive and helpless. The responsibility for a counsellor is to find ways to influence the power in people’s mind,making the Yang power outweighing the Yin power. To achieve that,the counselor can conduct a dialogue with the client from the following six dimensions each of which also include the Yin and Yang aspects:time (future and past);
action (cognition and behaviors);comparisons (the basic point and the absolute point);body (stability and mobility);compassion (inward and outward)and benefits (abandoning and striving). Intervention strategies specific to each dimension are also offered in Yin-Yang Psychotherapy,from which the counselor can select according to the needs. In terms of the counseling procedure,Yin-Yang Psychotherapy describes it as four seasons – the spring of counseling,the summer of counseling,the autumn of counseling and the winter of counseling,and every season has its priorities. Every counseling session is a cycle of four seasons;multi-sessions are multi-cycles. Although learning from I Ching philosophy,Yin-Yang Psychotherapy is not a simple interpretation of I Ching but is a new way to interpret psychological counseling practice with creative integration of both I Ching and western psychological theories.