Services
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT focuses on helping individuals identify and modify maladaptive thought patterns and behaviors to improve their mental well-being.
CBT sessions provide practical strategies and techniques that can help individuals effectively manage anxiety, depression, and stress. CBT can be tailored to your unique needs and goals, ensuring personalized and effective therapy.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT focuses on helping individuals develop psychological flexibility through acceptance of thoughts and feelings, and commitment to taking actions aligned with one’s values. The main goal of ACT is to help individuals create a rich, full, and meaningful life, while effectively handling the pain and stress that comes with it.
By practicing acceptance and commitment, individuals can cultivate a more open and aware relationship with their thoughts and emotions, allowing them to pursue a life that is purposeful and fulfilling despite the inevitable presence of pain and struggle.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
Developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz, IFS posits that our psyche is comprised of various subpersonalities or "parts" that interact within us as we love through life.
IFS helps individuals identify and understand these parts, each with its own unique characteristics, desires, and role in a person's life. By fostering a deep sense of curiosity and compassion towards these internal parts, individuals can work towards integrating them harmoniously, leading to improved emotional regulation and well-being.
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
PCIT is an evidence-based treatment that focuses on improving the relationship between parents and their children (ages 2-7 years) who are experiencing behavioral or emotional difficulties.
During PCIT sessions, parents are coached in real-time and provided guidance on how to interact with their child in positive and effective ways. Through play and structured activities, parents learn to provide positive praise and directed attention, set clear expectations, and provide consistent discipline.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
ERP is commonly used to treat individuals struggling with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Clients are gradually exposed to situations or objects that trigger their anxiety, while being guided to resist engaging in the compulsions or rituals that typically alleviate their distress.
Exposure involves facing feared stimuli in a controlled and systematic way, starting with less distressing triggers and progressing to more challenging ones. Response prevention involves refraining from engaging in compulsions or rituals that serve to reduce anxiety. By resisting the urge to perform these behaviors, individuals can learn that their anxiety will decrease naturally over time without needing to rely on compulsions.
Parent Management Training (PMT)
PMT is a structured approach designed to equip parents with effective strategies for handling their older children's (ages 7-13 years) challenging behaviors. This evidence-based intervention aims to improve parent-child relationships, reduce conflicts, and enhance the overall well-being of the family unit.
Parents learn valuable techniques such as positive reinforcement, setting clear expectations, and implementing consistent consequences. They are guided on how to communicate effectively with their children, set boundaries, and establish routines that promote positive behavior.
Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PET)
PET is an evidence-based treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PET is designed to help individuals confront and process traumatic memories, gradually reducing their distress and avoidance behaviors.
During PET sessions, individuals are encouraged to recount their traumatic experiences in detail, revisiting the memories they have been avoiding. By facing these memories in a safe environment, individuals can learn to re-evaluate their thoughts and feelings related to the trauma, decrease their emotional reactivity to traumatic memories, and regain a sense of mastery over their lives by lowering PTSD symptoms.
Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
TF-CBT is an evidence-based treatment approach designed to help children, adolescents, and families overcome the impact of traumatic experiences.
TF-CBT aims to reduce symptoms related to trauma exposure, such as anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress, by helping clients develop coping skills and build a sense of safety and empowerment. The therapy typically involves various components, including relaxation techniques, emotion regulation, trauma memory processing by story writing.
This approach involves collaboration with caregivers to provide support and create a safe environment for recovery.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
CPT is used to help individuals who have experienced trauma by examining and challenging unhelpful beliefs related to the traumatic event. Through a collaborative and systematic process, clients learn to become more aware of how their thoughts impact their emotions and behaviors.
During CPT sessions, clients identify and process the thoughts and beliefs they hold about themselves, others, and the world following the traumatic experience. By exploring these cognitive patterns, clients can gain a deeper understanding of how these beliefs may be contributing to their emotional distress.
Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT)
Developed by Dr. Paul Gilbert, CFT focuses on cultivating compassion for oneself and others. This form of therapy is based on the understanding that many mental health issues stem from high levels of self-criticism and shame.
The aim of CFT is to develop self-compassion by practicing mindfulness, understanding the origins of self-critical thoughts, and learning self-kindness and understanding. Through various exercises and techniques, individuals can gradually build their capacity for self-soothing, self-appreciation, and empathy towards others.
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
Drs. John and Julie Gottman’s approach to therapy is designed to help couples strengthen their relationships by improving communication, increasing intimacy, and resolving conflicts.
Couples are taught the skills and necessary components for building a "Sound Relationship House," which include building love maps, sharing fondness and admiration, turning towards each other instead of away, accepting influence, fixing solvable problems, overcoming gridlock, creating shared meaning, and managing conflict.
Bowenian Family Systems Therapy (BFST)
BFST focuses on the complex interconnectedness of family dynamics. This approach views the family as an emotional unit where each member is emotionally connected to one another.
In BFST, families work to understand and change patterns of interaction that contribute to issues within the family system. The goal is to help family members differentiate themselves from one another while maintaining emotional connection. Families are encouraged to explore their historical family patterns, increase awareness of their emotional reactions, and develop healthier ways of relating to one another.