Frameworks
Frameworks are the conceptual models Arc uses to keep psychotherapy explicit, paced, and coherent across sessions.
Use this page as a working glossary, then open each framework for examples, practical application, and related reading.
Arc Mapping is a session-to-session structure that links triggers, protective strategies, and chosen behavioral shifts.
- • Prevents treatment from drifting into insight without implementation.
- • Clarifies what changes and what stays stable across an arc.
- • Improves accountability without punitive framing.
Control Gradient scales flexibility in deliberate increments to reduce all-or-nothing adaptation.
- • Builds tolerance without forcing abrupt exposure.
- • Creates measurable shifts for high-control clients.
- • Protects values while reducing rigidity.
Belief Deconstruction Grid organizes inherited beliefs into retain, revise, and release categories.
- • Reduces confusion during identity reconstruction.
- • Separates values from fear-conditioned rules.
- • Supports coherent agency after religious harm.
Pattern Externalization moves internal loops into observable language, sequence, or task structure.
- • Improves precision when clients feel flooded or fused with the problem.
- • Supports collaborative analysis without self-attack.
- • Creates clearer intervention targets.
Uncertainty Capacity is the ability to act coherently without premature certainty.
- • Reduces compulsive decision loops.
- • Supports meaningful risk-taking with structure.
- • Improves resilience in identity transitions.
Meaning Reconstruction is a guided process for rebuilding identity, values, and direction after major belief disruption.
- • Supports coherence after religious or relational rupture.
- • Prevents reactive identity foreclosure.
- • Links values to behavior over time.