The mind often feels like a battlefield of negative thoughts, beliefs, and insecurities, which can often drain us of our energy. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people learn how to identify, recognize, and change their unhealthy or automatic negative thought patterns that have a unhealthy influence on their behaviors and emotions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) was developed by Dr. Aaron Beck and is a therapy that helps people have a clear understanding of the connection between thoughts, feelings, and reactions and teaches coping strategies and helpful ways to reframe thoughts and reach an alternative outcome.

Cognitive behavioral therapy teaches awareness of thoughts and emotions that can drain you by identifying maladaptive patterns of thinking, emotional responses, or behaviors and replacing them with more energizing, positive, or helpful patterns.

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by intense emotions and feeling out of depth for tolerating distress and difficult things; often living in the past or the future? Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) was developed by Dr. Marsha Lineman and is often used to treat a variety of mental health conditions. DBT is a structured, skills based therapy that helps you manage intense emotions, learn tools to emotionally regulate, learn ways to like the value of bringing oneself back to the present from the past or future, and cope with challenging situations.

The term “dialectical” refers to “opposing forces.” Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) teaches skills to find a balance between the opposing forces of accepting one’s self while also working toward change.

Are you struggling with painful memories, depression, anxiety, trauma? Are you feeling stuck? EMDR therapy does not require talking in detail about the distressing issue or completing homework between sessions. EMDR therapy, rather than focusing on changing the emotions, thoughts, or behaviors resulting from the distressing issue, allows the brain to resume its natural healing process.

EMDR therapy was developed by Francine Shapiro and is designed to resolve unprocessed traumatic memories in the brain. EMDR therapy helps children and adults of all ages. Therapists use EMDR therapy to address a wide range of challenges. Attention will be given to a negative image, belief, emotion, and body sensation related to this event, and then to a positive belief that would indicate the issue was resolved.

Instead of focusing on the traumatic event or thought flash technique focuses on a positive engaging target and briefly skates over the negative.

Flash Technique (FT) is a recently developed evidenced-based therapeutic intervention by Philip Manfield for reducing the disturbance associated with traumatic or other distressing memories. Unlike many conventional trauma therapy interventions, Flash Technique is a minimally intrusive option that does not require the client to consciously engage with the traumatic memory. This allows the client to process traumatic memories without feeling distress. 

Originally developed as an addition to the preparation phase of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), FT has been found to be effective in reducing the level of disturbance associated with intensely painful memories.

There may have been times you have said, "there is a part of me that feels this way and another part of me that feels that way," or "on the one hand I think this, and on the other hand I think something else." We all have different parts of ourselves that have different ages, thoughts, wants, needs, and behaviors.

In Ego State Therapy, we will explore the various parts of you that contribute to the way you think, feel, behave, and experience the world. In this work, you and I will explore your parts' ages, functions, relationships, and needs. We will work towards an understanding or nurturing of parts.

We will spend time identifying enhancing the oldest, wisest parts of you and healing the hurt, angry, or fearful parts of you. Ego State Therapy was developed by John and Helen Watkins and helps individuals with PTSD, Complex PTSD, and moderate to high levels of disassociation.

Somatic approaches help re-pattern the body’s response. A few of the founders include: Peter Levine, Stephen Porges, and Pat Ogden. Somatic therapy focuses on the connection between the mind and the body. While working on trauma the body has a way of remembering what the mind is unable to: for example, the freeze response, and the sudden hyper-vigilance in a room that feels “safe.” The body is designed to protect us. But when the danger has passed, those same protections can become barriers by holding memory, meaning, and the capacity to heal.

Healing often happens in movement such as in music, dancing, playing musical instruments, and humming to name a few. Somatic therapy utilizes techniques like breath work, movement, and touch. It aims to release trauma stored in the body. It encourages the value of existing in the present moment.