My Therapy Modalities

Below, you can learn more about the most common therapy modalities I pull from to support my clients. This list is not exhaustive; I may incorporate other theories and practices to support you. Rather than a one-size-fits all, I will tailor my approach to meet your individual needs.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT teaches mindfulness and acceptance skills to help individuals live and behave in ways consistent with their values while developing psychological flexibility. It helps individuals recognize ways in which their attempts to suppress, manage, and control emotional experiences create challenges. By recognizing and addressing these challenges, individuals can become better able to make room for values-based actions that support well-being. It also encourages people to develop a new and compassionate relationship with their experiences. Click here to learn more.

Attachment-based therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy explores how one’s childhood experiences might impact their ability to form meaningful bonds as adults. This approach helps people rebuild trust in relationships and heal from past relationship wounds. Though attachment therapy is often recommended for those who had negative childhood experiences, anyone struggling to foster deep connections with others might benefit from this therapy. In attachment-based therapy, you can expect to get in touch with your inner child—the person you were when you were first wounded or traumatized or abandoned. From there, the therapist helps you to ‘re-parent’ that version of yourself with love and patience, and compassion. Click here to learn more.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT is based on the idea that our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are all closely connected—and all of these factors have a direct influence on our well-being. Through CBT, you can unlearn negative thoughts and behaviors and develop healthier thinking patterns and habits. CBT involves a wide range of evidence-based techniques to help people overcome troubling thoughts, learn to relax the mind/body, and problem-solve in difficult situations. Click here to learn more.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

DBT is a modified and more comprehensive type of CBT, also comprised of a wide range of evidence-based techniques. DBT teaches people how to live more mindfully, practice healthier ways to cope with stress, regulate their emotions, and improve their communication and relationships with others. The ultimate goal of DBT is to help people build the skills necessary to enhance their lives. Click here to learn more.

INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS (IFS)

Internal Family Systems is an approach to therapy that identifies and addresses multiple sub-personalities or families within each person’s mental system. These sub-personalities consist of wounded parts and painful emotions such as anger and shame, and parts that try to control and protect the person from the pain of the wounded parts. The sub-personalities are often in conflict with each other and with one’s core Self, a concept that describes the confident, compassionate, whole person that is at the core of every individual. 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. Click here to learn more.

Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB)

IPNB uses the clinical evidence that supports continuous brain growth as its foundation. This technique examines the opportunity for healing trauma by stimulating the brain with powerful and positive persuasion. Studies have shown that conditions that were once considered to be irreversible may actually be able to be transformed in a healthy way. Because the brain grows continuously throughout our lives, the implications for healing are unending. This technique is being used across a broad sector of the population, including with those who work in the areas of mental health, education, parenting, business, industry, and others. Click here to learn more.

Narrative Therapy

Narrative Therapy is a method of therapy that separates a person from their problems. It encourages people to rely on their own skills to minimize problems that exist in their lives. Throughout life, personal experiences become personal stories. People give these stories meaning, and the stories help shape a person’s identity. Narrative therapy uses the power of these stories to help people discover their life purpose. This is often done by assigning that person the role of “narrator” in their own story. Click here to learn more.

Person-Centered Therapy

Person-Centered Therapy diverged from the traditional model of the therapist as expert and moved instead toward a nondirective, empathic approach that empowers and motivates the client in the therapeutic process. The therapy is based on a belief that every human being strives for and has the capacity to fulfill his or her own potential. In Person-Centered Therapy, the therapist avoids directing the course of therapy by following the client’s lead whenever possible. The therapist offers support, guidance, and structure so that the client can discover personalized solutions within themselves. Click here to learn more.

Relational Therapy

Relational psychotherapy, an approach that can help individuals recognize the role relationships play in the shaping of daily experiences, attempts to help people understand patterns appearing in the thoughts and feelings they have toward themselves. Based on the idea that strong and fulfilling relationships with other individuals can help people maintain emotional well-being, this model may be beneficial to people seeking therapy for any number of reasons, but in particular to address long-term emotional distress, especially when distress occurs as a result of relational concerns. Click here to learn more.

Somatic Psychotherapy

Somatic psychotherapy, a holistic therapeutic approach, incorporates a person’s mind, body, spirit, and emotions in the healing process. Because past trauma or other psychological concerns may affect a person’s autonomic nervous system, people experiencing emotional and psychological issues may also be affected by physical concerns. Practitioners of somatic psychotherapy can help individuals become more aware of bodily sensations and learn to use therapeutic techniques to release any tension the body is holding. Techniques often used in therapy include breathing exercise and sensation awareness, physical exercise such as dance or other movement, voice work, massage, and grounding exercises. Somatic therapy may help people experience greater self-awareness and connection to others. Participants may find themselves able to better sense their own bodies, reduce stress, and explore emotional and physical concerns. Click here to learn more.

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