Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy Services for Trauma, Anxiety, Depression
We offer psychotherapy for children, adolescents and adults pending availability. Please ask our intake coordinator if your preferred provider is trained in any of the below areas when you schedule and accepting psychotherapy patients at this time.
Trauma Focused Therapy
Trauma Focused Therapy is a specific approach to therapy that recognizes and emphasizes understanding how the traumatic experience impacts a person’s mental, behavioral, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. This type of therapy is rooted in understanding the connection between the trauma experience and the person’s emotional and behavioral responses. The purpose of trauma-focused therapy is to offer skills and strategies to assist you in better understanding, coping with, and processing emotions and memories tied to traumatic experiences, with the end goal of enabling you to create a healthier and more adaptive meaning of the experience that took place in your life.
Narrative Therapy
Narrative therapy is a form of counseling that views people as separate from their problems. This allows clients to get some distance from the issue to see how it might actually be helping them, or protecting them, more than it is hurting them. With this new perspective, individuals feel more empowered to make changes in their thought patterns and behavior and “rewrite” their life story for a future that reflects who they are, what they are capable of, and what their purpose is, separate from their problems.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
MBCT was developed for people with recurring episodes of depression or unhappiness, to prevent relapse. It has been proven effective in patients with major depressive disorder who have experienced at least three episodes of depression. Mindfulness-based relapse prevention may also be helpful for treating generalized anxiety disorders and addictions. MBCT has also been shown to improve symptoms of depression in some people with physical health conditions, such as vascular disease and traumatic brain injury.
Expressive Art Therapy
Expressive art therapy is a multimodal approach to therapy. It includes poetry, art, dance, writing and music. People utilizing expressive arts therapy are encouraged by a qualified therapist to explore their responses, reactions, and insights through pictures, sounds, explorations, and encounters with art processes. A person is not required to have artistic ability to use or benefit from expressive arts therapy. The focus of expressive arts therapy is on the therapeutic effect of the creative experience, and it highlights the human capacity to transform thoughts, emotions and experiences into tangible shapes and forms.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
CBT is a form of psychotherapy that treats problems and boosts happiness by modifying dysfunctional emotions, behaviors, and thoughts. CBT focuses on solutions, encouraging patients to challenge distorted cognitions and change destructive patterns of behavior. CBT rests on the idea that thoughts and perceptions influence behavior. Feeling distressed, in some cases, may distort one’s perception of reality. CBT aims to identify harmful thoughts, assess whether they are an accurate depiction of reality, and, if they are not, employ strategies to challenge and overcome them.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) treatment is a type of psychotherapy or talk therapy that utilizes a cognitive-behavioral approach. DBT emphasizes the psychosocial aspects of treatment.The theory behind the approach is that some people are prone to react in a more intense and out-of-the-ordinary manner toward certain emotional situations, primarily those found in romantic, family and friend relationships. DBT theory suggests that some people’s arousal levels in such situations can increase far more quickly than the average person’s, attain a higher level of emotional stimulation, and take a significant amount of time to return to baseline arousal levels.
Holistic & Integrative Care
Reiki, Trauma Informed Yoga Therapy, Yoga Classes, Aromatherapy, Guided Meditation, group therapy, Massage therapy (not offered in therapy sessions, book separately with massage therapist). Letters for Emotional Support Animals (ESA). Pet Therapy. Nature & Forest Therapy.
BRIEF PSYCHOTHERAPY
Brief Psychotherapy is a brief solution focused therapy that does not require a large number of sessions. Normally, it does not exceed 10 sessions. A fundamental characteristic is that the provider focuses on the here and now, helping resolve all those problems that negatively affect the patient’s life. This does not mean that issues of the past are not treated, simply that those problems that were previously important but do not affect the person’s current life are not of interest. This can often be incorporated with medication management.
Therapeutic Consultations
We are able to provide consultation to primary care providers. If you are a primary care provider, to make a referral please click here. In this case our medication provider will see your patient 1-3 times. If you are a patient asking for a second opinion, you will be required to bring your psychiatric records to you initial appointment. The consult may take more than one session so that the provider can have a full understanding of your treatment needs.
“Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction, healing is learning to trust life. -Jeanne Achterberg”