Depression & Anxiety
Finding the energy, even for things you enjoy, feels too difficult. Even day-to-day tasks feel overwhelming. Anxiety tells you that something is wrong, and depression says you are helpless to change it. Your thoughts continually race. Your chest feels tight. Your body feels heavy.
You need more than just coping skills. You want to know why you feel this way, learn who you truly are, and grow to love yourself.
Change is possible. You can find the energy you have been missing. You will see that you are worthy. Emotions are messages, and together we will listen to find the path that leads to your happiness. You deserve it.
How we help
Individual Therapy
Individual Therapy is a form of therapy in which the client meets one-on-one with a therapist.
This is the most popular form of therapy and may encompass many different treatment styles, including Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), and Internal Family systems (IFS). Our practice specializes in integrating different models of psychotherapy for the client's unique needs. All of our therapists provide individual therapy.
Walk & Talk Therapy
Walk and Talk Therapy is a simple yet modern approach to therapy that takes therapy off the couch, beyond the four walls of an office, and literally on the path to healing. The therapist and client walk together during sessions while addressing the issues that led to an interest in therapy.
Many clients feel walking during therapy allows for a more relaxed environment than traditional therapy. Some clients feel more fit and energized during and following sessions. Other clients think the experience of sharing their struggles while walking to be meditative.
Why it's helpful:
Walk & Talk Therapy gets clients moving- literally and figuratively.
It's conducted outdoors, which can be very grounding and relaxing.
Clients can set their place, which can be empowering physically and emotionally.
Research studies show that physical activity can improve clients' mental and physical health.
Physical activity can also reduce levels of depression and anxiety.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy asserts that we are not only one thing. Rather than being traumatized, IFS therapy believes that we have parts of us that carry adverse memories, negative beliefs, emotions, sensations, and energies absorbed through traumatic experiences. Our various and unique features live in or around the body, and IFS, therefore, centers the body's innate knowledge and wisdom in its healing process.
Instead of solely focusing on emotions, such as anger and fear, we are invited to gently and safely witness and dialogue with our body's feelings — the physical sensations beneath emotions. Where does anger live, and what does it feel like in the body, for example. Perhaps anger is experienced as pressure, heat, tingling, or a hollow feeling in the chest. These sensations are often the residual energies from distressing experiences, which can be used as a blueprint for past experiences and future healing.
IFS therapy is transformative because it invites us to release energy from our body that carries distressing or harmful memories and beliefs. This happens slowly over time and with permission from our protective system so that the release feels safe and stable to our minds and bodies.
Person-Centered Therapy
Person-Centered Therapy, also known as Rogerian Therapy or client-based Therapy, employs a non-authoritative approach that allows clients to take more of a lead in sessions such that, in the process, they discover their solutions.
The approach originated in the work of American psychologist Carl Rogers, who believed that every person is unique and, therefore, everyone's view of their world and ability to manage it should be trusted. Rogers was a proponent of self-actualization, or the idea that each of us has the power to find the best solutions for ourselves and the ability to make appropriate changes in our lives. He initially referred to this approach as non-directive therapy since it required the therapist to follow the client's lead and not direct discussion.
During Person-Centered Therapy, a therapist acts as a compassionate facilitator, listening without judgment and acknowledging the client's experience without shifting the conversation in another direction. The therapist is there to encourage and support the client without interrupting or interfering with their process of self-discovery as they uncover what hurts and what is needed to repair it.
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR works by helping a person with trauma overcome mental blocks and raw pain centers that come with distancing the self from the traumatic incident. Usually, a full-fledged EMDR-based treatment plan is broken into 8 phases consisting of 12 separate sessions. The sessions start with reviewing the patient's history and trauma and then progress to systematic stages of planning, assessment, treatment, and evaluation.
Patients who have been through EMDR therapy can integrate negative emotions, body reactions, and behavior patterns in a better way. The treatment also teaches new and personalized ways of coping with life challenges. Some coping skills learned by EMDR are healthy behavior, enhanced understanding, and positive thinking.
EMDR works on the Adaptive Information Processing model that rests on the fundamental belief that mental health sustenance needs positive experiences. Individuals can handle fresh challenges when the brain is trained to process the traumatic incident. The Department of Veterans holds EMDR therapy as one of the best-recommended treatment plans for PTSD.
BrainSpotting
Brainspotting is based on the profound attunement of the therapist with the patient, finding a somatic cue and extinguishing it by down-regulating the amygdala. It isn't just PNS (Parasympathetic Nervous System) activation that is facilitated; it is homeostasis.
-- Robert Scaer, MD, "The Trauma Spectrum"
Brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing, and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation, and a variety of other challenging symptoms. Brainspotting is a simultaneous form of diagnosis and treatment, enhanced with Biolateral sound, which is deep, direct, and powerful yet focused and containing.
Brainspotting functions as a neurobiological tool to support the clinical healing relationship. There is no replacement for a mature, nurturing therapeutic presence and the ability to engage another suffering human in a safe and trusting relationship where they feel heard, accepted, and understood.
Brainspotting gives us a tool, within this clinical relationship, to neurobiologically locate, focus, process, and release experiences and symptoms that are typically out of reach of the conscious mind and its cognitive and language capacity.
Brainspotting works with the deep brain and the body through its direct access to the autonomic and limbic systems within the body's central nervous system. Brainspotting is, accordingly a physiological tool/treatment which has profound psychological, emotional, and physical consequences.