Positive Psychotherapy encompasses a variety of techniques that encourage individuals to identify and develop their positive emotions, experiences, and character traits.  It can treat emotional difficulties and provide individuals a more meaningful life.

There are some common misconceptions about positive psychology, both about what it is and what it is not.

To clear up some of these misunderstandings and provide a brief but comprehensive overview of the field, we’ve put together this piece focused on defining and describing the positive psychology movement.

As a therapeutic tool, Positive Psychotherapy focuses on an individual’s strengths, life satisfaction, well-being and gratitude.  As a result it can serve to alter an individual’s perspective and result in a radically more positive outlook on life.  Positive attitude counseling is not intended to replace traditional psychology, but it can complement it with a more positive bias.

As a field, positive psychology spends much of its time thinking about topics like character strengths, optimism, life satisfaction, happiness, well-being, gratitude, compassion (as well as self-compassion), self-esteem and self-confidence, hope, and elevation.

Counseling positive attitudes also has advantages when counseling situations of grief, personal isolation and life transitions.