Therapy Models

An evidenced-based psychotherapuetic treatment that focuses on identifying and challenging unhelpful thought patterns that negatively impact behavior. This therapy challenges and confronts these patterns and replaces them with helpful ones to improve emotional regulation and subsequent behavior.

An evidenced-based psychotherapuetic treatment that is short-term, goal-directed and future-oriented in solving problems. The focus of this approach is on strengths and utilizing the skills, resources and abilities that already exist within the individual.

A psychotherapuetic treatment that integrates the practice of mindfulness with CBT. The goal of MBCT is to interrupt automatic thought processes by observing reactions to stimuli and learning to accept and observe these thoughts without judgment. Through this process of observing and reflecting, negative reactions are interrupted and eventually cease.

A collection of psychotherapeutic treatments that are action-oriented for couples and families. Interventions focus on resolving dysfunctional patterns of communication and structure amongst family members to restore equilibrium within the family system. For more information on a primary FST, click on the link below to read about Bowen Family Systems Theory.

An evidenced-based psychotherapuetic treatment that is a modified form of CBT with an emphasis on relationships. The foundations of this approach include mindfulness skills, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.

Increasing self-awareness and subsequent self-regulation of psychological and physiological states by becoming psychologically aware of physiological cues, such as breathing, heart rate, temperature, blood pressure, muscle tension and skin sensitivity.