Specialized Therapies

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorders.

Accelerated resolution therapy (ART) is a new therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) that has shown exceptional promise. Compared with other standard, more evidence-based treatments, initial research has shown ART to be as effective, quicker, easier to learn, and more cost-efficient.

Brainspotting locates points in the client’s visual field that help to access unprocessed trauma in the brain. Dr. Grand discovered this type of therapy, "where you look affects how you feel." It is the brain activity, especially in the subcortical brain that organizes itself around that eye position.

A primary goal of RCT is to create and maintain Mutually-Growth-Fostering Relationships, relationships in which both parties feel that they matter.

Internal Family Systems is a powerfully transformative, evidence-based model of psychotherapy. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Our inner parts contain valuable qualities and our core Self knows how to heal, allowing us to become integrated and whole. In IFS all parts are welcome.

IFS is a movement. A new, empowering paradigm for understanding and harmonizing the mind and, thereby, larger human systems. One that can help people heal and helps the world become a more compassionate place.

Skill building in a therapeutic environment can include a broad range of skills. These might include the following:

— Emotional Identification: “Are you feeling angry or actually sad? Or anxious …and also excited?”

— Emotional Regulation: exploring options available instead of punching-a-wall when upset or keeping feelings bottled up.

— Perspective Taking: the way the client interprets the situation the same as others, the significance of similarities and differences.

— Size of the Problem Thinking: the reaction a person is having in line with the size of the problem itself.

— Confronting “Thinking Errors”: including black and white thinking, negativity bias, catastrophization, etc.

— Communication Skills: including empowerment, communication goal identification, clear messaging, and asking for clarification.

Using a foundation of knowledge embedded in evidence based parenting skills programs, parenting education and coaching aims at helping parents achieve a more harmonious home environment.

Starting with a look at child development the aim is to increase accuracy of developmentally appropriate expectations, improve problem solving, improve communication, and increase desirable behaviors / competencies from children.

Parent coaching consists of learning to set expectations, build positive family roles, implement routines, and increase attachment and belonging. These factors will promote decreased family violence, decrease conduct disorder among children and decrease risk factors predictive of future problem behavior.

— Managing the nervous system: kids must have parents that are calm and regulated in order to develop proper regulation of their own.

— Setting clear expectations that are within the child's ability level: this level needs to be challenging enough that the child is interested, but not so hard they give up.

— Developing and modeling healthy boundaries: with bodies, other people, food, screens, etc.

— Developing and modeling healthy communication that involves active listening and checking for understanding.

Somatic Experiencing Therapy incorporates the mind, body, and spirit into therapeutic healing work.

Somatic therapy aims to treat the effects of PTSD and other mental and emotional health issues through the connection of mind and body.

Somatic therapy incorporates body-oriented modalities such as dance, breath work, and meditation to support patients through their healing journeys, and weave talk therapy into mind-body exercises.

This therapy aims to help release how a physical body holds on to stress, tension, and trauma, rather than only resolving problems verbally.

Family therapy is a form of group psychotherapy that works with families in a safe environment to resolve current or historical conflicts, improve communication, and nurture relationships.

Sometimes families need help working through a crisis or a stressful time, such as a death in the family, a lay-off, substance use, remarriage, children’s behavioral issues. Regardless of whether the current challenge is seen as an individual or a family issue, it is believed that involving the family is beneficial.

Family Therapy may address issues such as:

•Conflict between parents and children

•Blended family concerns

•Effects of mental health and/or substance abuse within the family

•Grief and loss

•Involvement in a treatment program