Therapeutic APPROACH

This therapeutic modality allows our therapists and clients to form a  trusted relationship, in order to address and dissect issues causing  distress. CBT uses a practical approach in which the therapist helps the  client understand the relationship between beliefs, feelings, and  thoughts, and the effect these have on behavior patterns and actions.  

EMDR is an information processing therapy, that uses an eight phase  approach to address the experiential contributors of a wide range of   pathologies. Our therapists assist clients as they attend  to the past  experiences that have set the groundwork for  the current situations  that often trigger dysfunctional emotions, beliefs, and sensations, and  the positive experience needed to enhance future adaptive behaviors and  mental health.   

Our therapists are well versed in attachment theory. Attachment theory  is focused on the relationships and bonds between people, including  those between a parent and child, and between our friends and partners.  Therapists assist clients in understanding how some of their earliest  experiences and bonds, have a tremendous impact that continues  throughout life, and the understanding that this is “normal,” as it  assisted them when young, to improve their chance of survival, but there  may be a need for changes in behavior as it relates to relationships  today.  

IFS is a transformative tool that conceives every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts lead by a core Self. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Just like members of a family, inner parts are forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us. Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged. It knows how to heal.  

IFS is frequently used as an evidence-based psychotherapy, helping people heal by accessing and healing their protective and wounded inner parts. IFS creates inner and outer connectedness by helping people first access their Self and, from that core, come to understand and heal their parts. IFS can be used in conjunction with EMDR Therapy.

When we cultivate a felt sense of compassion for ourselves, we are  resourced to brave the complexities of the mood. Our resourcing  practices are designed to prepare for EMDR Therapy, and to reduce trauma-related symptoms. The fundamental belief of our teachings and  techniques is that, “We are already the wholeness that we seek.” Clients  are supported  to return to the sense that all we desire is already within us. Our resourcing  techniques include: designed for safety and stabilization include; mindfulness exercises, breathing techniques, easy meditations, gentle  movements with body awareness,  and Yoga Nidra.