Approaches
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT is a psycho-social therapeutic modality which focuses on the symptom reduction of various mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and co-occurring mental health conditions, thus improving the client’s coping skills and overall quality of life.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
DBT is an offshoot of cognitive behavioral therapy that employs mindfulness, radical acceptance, and emotion regulation to treat personality disorders, mood disorders, and support new behavioral patterns to emerge.
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is a process intended to access the traumatic memory network, so the information connected to the traumatic experience is processed in a new way, making new associations between the traumatic memory and more adaptive memories or information. These new associations result in the reduction of emotional distress and the development of new adaptive insights.
Expressive Arts
Our therapists use a variety of art forms such as music, drawing, painting, sculpting, and sand tray to help with expressing thoughts and feelings that can sometimes be difficult to consciously access and articulate. Expressive Arts can bring unconscious or painful experiences into the present, to explore them from a projected point of view to gain insight and understanding. You don’t need to be artistic or creative and your participation is always optional.
Family Systems Therapy
Family Systems Therapy focuses on the family as a unit, how the family interacts with one another, and how each family member influences the family unit. By understanding each member and the role they play in the family, problematic dynamics and patterns can be identified and addressed.
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
MBCT is a version of cognitive therapy that includes mindfulness as a key component of the therapy. Mindfulness is a practice that helps us engage the present moment, with greater awareness and non-judgement. In combination with the exploration of our thinking processes, mindfulness helps us become more attune and more compassionate of ourselves while helping to address distressing thinking patterns.
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational interviewing is a counseling method that helps individuals resolve ambivalent thoughts and feelings and find the motivation to engage in the change process. Motivational Interviewing is a short-term process that considers how difficult it is to make life changes, the factors that influence change, and engages a person’s readiness for change.
Narrative Therapy
Narrative Therapy emphasizes the power of our stories to help us gain understanding of our experiences, their meaning, and their influence on our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. By separating the person from the problem, Narrative Therapy examines the stories we carry, and offers the opportunity to create healthy and more adaptive narratives that support our mental health and wellness.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic Therapy explores unconscious processes that influence thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that manifest in the present. The goal of Psychodynamic Therapy is to raise awareness and understanding of a person’s past experiences and its affect on current beliefs, feelings, and actions to help improve and resolve current issues.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Using a positive psychology approach, Solution-focused Therapy is a brief therapeutic modality focused on goal-directed behavior as clients address change in their life.
Trauma-Informed Therapy
Our counselors are trained to account for potential trauma in the lives of our clients and we understand its impact on our thoughts, feelings, and behavior. We are mindful of how trauma can be activated (aka “triggers) and how re-traumatization can occur during the course of treatment and take steps to minimize these occurrences and their affects.
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