Instructed Cognitive Reappraisal in Reducing Affective, Behavioral and Psychophysiological Symptoms of Misophonia

Cognitive reappraisal is a psychotherapeutic strategy utilized to regulate emotions by reinterpreting the meaning of stimuli. Participants will receive instructions on generating and implementing cognitive reappraisal (distancing and reframing) in both misophonic and non-misophonic contexts and will be practicing it within psychotherapeutic sessions. The program consists of four weekly online psychotherapeutic sessions: the first session will be a 90-minute group session, followed by three individual sessions, each lasting 30 minutes.

Schultz Autogenic Training is a relaxation technique aimed at promoting relaxation and reducing physiological arousal. It consists of six exercises focusing on sensations of heaviness, warmth, heartbeat, breathing, abdominal warmth, and coolness of the forehead. The program consists of four weekly online psychotherapeutic sessions: the first session will be a 90-minute group session, followed by three individual sessions, each lasting 30 minutes.