What happens in a counseling session that draws on Attachment-Based Therapy?
We explore your relationship history and the patterns in your current relationships, such as clinging, withdrawing or expecting disappointment. Together we build more secure ways of connecting, including in the therapy relationship itself.
What is Attachment-Based Therapy?
Attachment-based therapy looks at how the ways we learned to connect with caregivers shape how we trust, depend on and pull away from the people we love now.
Who can benefit from Compassion-Focused Therapy?
Self-criticism, shame, perfectionism, anxiety and depression.
What happens in a counseling session that draws on Compassion-Focused Therapy?
We notice the inner critic, understand what it is trying to protect, and practice calming exercises and a kinder inner voice. Progress is gradual and practiced between sessions.
What is Compassion-Focused Therapy?
Compassion-focused therapy helps people who are harshly self-critical learn to meet their struggles with understanding. It draws on the idea that we are wired to calm and soothe ourselves through kindness.
Who can benefit from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
People who feel their emotions are too intense, who act impulsively when upset, or who have turbulent relationships.
What happens in a counseling session that draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
Sessions include learning and practicing specific skills, such as pausing before reacting, calming strong feelings and asking for what you need. I draw on these skills in individual sessions.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a skills-based approach that balances acceptance and change. It teaches mindfulness, tolerating distress, managing emotions and communicating effectively.
Who can benefit from Existential Therapy?
Grief, life transitions, a sense of emptiness, midlife questions and a search for purpose.
What happens in a counseling session that draws on Existential Therapy?
Sessions are reflective conversations about what you value, what you are avoiding and what kind of life you want. There are no set exercises. We follow what is real for you.
What is Existential Therapy?
Existential therapy looks at the big questions that sit under many struggles, such as meaning, freedom, loss, isolation and mortality, and helps you face them honestly.
Who can benefit from Experiential Therapy?
People who feel stuck in their heads, who find it hard to name their feelings, or who want a more hands-on approach.
What happens in a counseling session that draws on Experiential Therapy?
We slow down and pay attention to what is happening in your body and emotions as you talk, and sometimes use imagery, role play or other exercises to bring feelings into view.
What is Experiential Therapy?
Experiential therapy focuses on what you feel in the moment, so that insight comes through experience rather than analysis alone.
Who can benefit from Interpersonal Therapy?
Depression, grief, conflict with a partner or family member and major life changes.
What happens in a counseling session that draws on Interpersonal Therapy?
We pick one or two relationship areas that are causing the most distress, look at how you communicate, and practice new ways of handling them.
What is Interpersonal Therapy?
Interpersonal therapy focuses on the link between your relationships and your mood. It looks at conflict, role changes, loss and isolation, and how to handle each.
Who can benefit from Mindfulness-Based Therapy?
Anxiety, stress, recurring low mood, sleep problems and chronic pain.
What happens in a counseling session that draws on Mindfulness-Based Therapy?
Sessions include short practices such as breathing and body awareness, and conversations about what you notice. You are encouraged to practice a few minutes a day.
What is Mindfulness-Based Therapy?
Mindfulness-based therapy teaches you to notice your thoughts, feelings and body sensations without judging them, which can loosen the grip of worry and rumination.
Who can benefit from Person-Centered Therapy?
Grief, life changes, self-doubt, and anyone who wants to be listened to and to find their own answers.
What happens in a counseling session that draws on Person-Centered Therapy?
Sessions are open conversations about whatever is on your mind. I listen carefully and reflect back what I hear, without judgment or pressure.
What is Person-Centered Therapy?
Person-centered therapy is built on the belief that people have the capacity to grow when they feel heard and accepted. The counselor offers warmth, honesty and close attention, and you lead.
Who can benefit from Positive Psychology?
People who want more than relief from symptoms, and those wanting to strengthen a good relationship.
What happens in a counseling session that draws on Positive Psychology?
We identify what you do well and what gives your life meaning, and use those strengths to meet your goals. This is often combined with other approaches.
What is Positive Psychology?
Positive psychology adds to the work of reducing problems by building strengths, gratitude, meaning and healthy relationships.
Who can benefit from Psychoanalytic Therapy?
People who sense deep, repeating patterns in their relationships or emotions and want to understand them.
What happens in a counseling session that draws on Psychoanalytic Therapy?
Sessions are exploratory. You talk freely about what comes to mind, and we look for themes in your memories, dreams and relationships. It is usually a longer-term process.
What is Psychoanalytic Therapy?
Psychoanalytic therapy explores unconscious thoughts, early experiences and relationship patterns that continue to shape your life. Understanding them gives you more freedom to choose differently.
Who can benefit from Psychodynamic Therapy?
Depression, anxiety, relationship patterns and a sense that something from the past is still at work.
What happens in a counseling session that draws on Psychodynamic Therapy?
We connect what is happening now to patterns from your history, and talk about what you notice, including in how we work together. Sessions can be shorter-term or open-ended.
What is Psychodynamic Therapy?
Psychodynamic therapy draws on psychoanalytic ideas in a more focused, practical way. It looks at how earlier experiences and unspoken feelings influence your current relationships and reactions.
Who can benefit from Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)?
Anger, anxiety, perfectionism, addiction and recovery, and strong emotional reactions.
What happens in a counseling session that draws on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)?
Sessions are direct and practical. We identify the beliefs behind a reaction, test them against reality and practice more flexible alternatives. This is often used with addiction and anger.
What is Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)?
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is built on the idea that it is our beliefs about events, more than the events themselves, that drive strong emotions. Changing rigid, demanding beliefs can change how we feel and act.
Who can benefit from Reality Therapy?
Recovery from addiction, family conflict, teens, and anyone who wants a practical focus.
What happens in a counseling session that draws on Reality Therapy?
We look at your relationships and daily choices, set realistic goals and make clear, workable plans. Accountability and encouragement are part of the process.
What is Reality Therapy?
Reality therapy focuses on the present and on the choices within your control. It asks what you want, what you are doing and whether it is getting you there.
Who can benefit from Relational Therapy?
Loneliness, relationship difficulties and people who find it hard to trust.
What happens in a counseling session that draws on Relational Therapy?
We look at how you experience closeness, conflict and trust, and use the therapy relationship as a place to try new ways of connecting.
What is Relational Therapy?
Relational therapy holds that we grow and heal through connection. It pays close attention to how you relate to others and to the counselor.
Who can benefit from Strength-Based Therapy?
People who feel discouraged, families who feel they have failed, and anyone who wants to build confidence.
What happens in a counseling session that draws on Strength-Based Therapy?
We name the strengths you already use, and apply them to the problem you are facing. Goals are small and clear and we build on each success.
What is Strength-Based Therapy?
Strength-based therapy begins with your abilities, resources and past successes, instead of focusing only on what is wrong.
Who can benefit from Structural Family Therapy?
Families with teens, blended families, single-parent households and families with a child acting out.
What happens in a counseling session that draws on Structural Family Therapy?
We watch how the family interacts in session and work on clear roles, healthy boundaries and parents working as a team. Parents and teens are both involved.
What is Structural Family Therapy?
Structural family therapy looks at how a family is organized, including who has authority, how close or distant members are and where the boundaries are. Problems often come from structure that no longer fits.
Who can benefit from Trauma-Focused Therapy?
People living with the effects of past loss, abuse, accidents or other painful events.