Treatment Approches

Brainspotting (BSP) is a brain-body approach to heal Psychological trauma, anxiety, depression and PTSD. BSP addresses the root cause of psychological stress and trauma. It is based on the premise that where you look correlates with traumatic experiences that are typically hidden from conscious awareness. Brainspotting strengthens and enhances internal resources and allows deep processing of traumatic experiences. BSP has shown to be effective in treating addiction, depression, anxiety, childhood trauma, phobias and chronic pain.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy stresses the role of thinking in how we feel and what we do. It is based on the belief that thoughts, rather than events, cause our negative feelings. The therapist assists the client in identifying, testing the reality of, and correcting the dysfunctional beliefs underlying a problem. CBT has been clinically proven to help clients in a relatively short amount of time with a wide range of disorders, including depression and anxiety.

Supervision services are offered by qualified practitioners who provide feedback and expertise to interns, practicum students, and psychological assistants.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is the treatment most closely associated with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). The therapy combines elements of CBT to help with regulating emotion through distress, tolerance, and mindfulness. The goal of Dialectical Behavior Therapy is to alleviate the intense emotional pain associated with BPD.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a non-invasive, evidence-based psychotherapy treatment to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories. EMDR therapy facilitates processing of traumatic memories and other adverse life experience to bring these to an adaptive resolution. After successful treatment with EMDR therapy, affective distress is relieved, negative beliefs are reformulated, and physiological arousal is reduced.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is an approach to therapy that helps clients identify their emotions, learn to explore, and experience them, to understand them and then to manage them.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an approach to psychotherapy that identifies and addresses multiple sub-personalities or families within person’s mental system. IFS focuses on healing the wounded parts and restoring mental balance and harmony by changing the dynamics that create discord among the sub-personalities and the Self.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a method of therapy that works to engage the motivation of clients to change their behavior. Clients are encouraged to explore and confront their ambivalence. Therapists attempt to influence their clients to consider making changes, rather than non-directively explore themselves. Motivational Interviewing is frequently used in cases of problem drinking or mild addictions.

Psychodynamic therapy, also known as insight-oriented therapy, evolved from Freudian psychoanalysis. Like adherents of psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapists believe that bringing the unconscious into conscious awareness promotes insight and resolves conflict. But psychodynamic therapy more brief and less intensive than psychoanalysis and also focuses on the relationship between the therapist and the client, as a way to learn about how the client relates to everyone in their life.

Solution-focused therapy, sometimes called "brief therapy," focuses on what clients would like to achieve through therapy rather than on their troubles or mental health issues. The therapist will help the client envision a desirable future, and then map out the small and large changes necessary for the client to undergo to realize their vision. The therapist will seize on any successes the client experiences, to encourage them to build on their strengths rather than dwell on their problems or limitations.

Somatic (from the Greek word 'soma', meaning body) psychotherapy bridges the mind-body dichotomy recognizing that emotion, behavior, sensation, impulse, energy, action, gesture, meaning and language all originate in physical experiences. Thinking is not an abstract function but motivates, or is motivated by, physical expression and action. A somatic approach to trauma treatment can be effective by examining how past traumatic experiences cause physical symptoms (e.g. bodily anesthesia or motor inhibitions) which in turn affect emotion regulation, cognition and daily functioning. Dance therapy reflects a somatic approach.

Strength-based therapy is a type of positive psychotherapy and counseling that focuses more on your internal strengths and resourcefulness, and less on weaknesses, failures, and shortcomings. This focus sets up a positive mindset that helps you build on your best qualities, find your strengths, improve resilience and change worldview to one that is more positive. A positive attitude, in turn, can help your expectations of yourself and others become more achievable.