Approaches Used

cognitive behavioral therapy (cbt)

Is a form of psychotherapy that is based on the idea that the way we think and feel affects how we behave. CBT helps you to identify unrealistic thoughts, evaluate whether they are reasonable perceptions of your situation, and, if they are not, use strategies to overcome them. CBT works by identifying realistic and unrealistic thoughts about a situation, shifting negative or unreasonable beliefs, and taking actions to support productive ways of thinking and acting in your daily life.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a type of psychotherapy that helps you accept the difficulties that come with life. ACT is a form of mindfulness based therapy, theorizing that greater well-being can be attained by overcoming negative thoughts and feelings. Essentially, ACT looks at your character traits and behaviors to assist you in reducing avoidant coping styles. ACT also addresses your commitment to making changes, and what to do about it when you can’t stick to your goals.

Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)

Attachment-based

Attachment-based therapy is a form of therapy that applies to interventions or approaches based on attachment theory, which explains how the relationship a parent has with its child influences development.

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. Emotionally Focused Therapy embraces the idea that emotions can be changed, first by arriving at or ‘living’ the maladaptive emotion (e.g. loss, fear or shame) in session, and then learning to transform it. Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples seeks to break the negative emotion cycles within relationships, emphasizing the importance of the attachment bond between couples, and how nurturing of the attachment bonds and an empathetic understanding of each others emotions can break the cycles.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)

Is a form of psychotherapy in which the person being treated is asked to recall distressing images; the therapist then directs the patient in one type of bilateral stimulation, such as side-to-side eye movements or hand tapping. EMDR is included in several evidence-based guidelines for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Is a form of cognitive therapy that integrates mindfulness practices such as meditation. Using these tools, MBCT helps you to look at automatic thoughts and focus less on reacting to them and instead accepting and observing them without judgment. This helps you to break away from the effects of negative thought patterns and move toward more awareness and coping.

Mindfulness-Based

Neurofeedback (NFB)

Also called neurotherapy, is a type of biofeedback that presents real-time feedback from brain activity in order to reinforce healthy brain function through operant conditioning. Typically, electrical activity from the brain is collected via sensors placed on the scalp using electroencephalography (EEG), with feedback presented using video displays or sound. There is significant evidence supporting neurotherapy for generalized treatment of mental disorders and has been practiced over four decades, although never gaining prominence in the medical mainstream. NFB is relatively non-invasive and is administered as a long term treatment option, typically taking a month to complete.

Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) concentrates on finding solutions and exploring your hope for the future to help you resolve problems. This goal-oriented method looks at times when problems aren’t actively affecting you, and takes the approach that you have useful information about what will improve your life and, with the appropriate coaching and questioning, are capable of finding and using the best solutions for you.

Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)

Trauma Focused

Trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) helps people who may be experiencing post-traumatic stress after a traumatic event to return to a healthy state.