I use a variety of approaches to design a treatment that is going to be as individual as the clients I serve.

I have extensive training in Motivational Interviewing, EMDR, Emotionally Focused couples therapy, Attachment therapy, and Narrative therapy.

 

Some of these treatments appeal to those who are focused on getting the skills they need in the moment to move forward quickly. Such treatments include CBT and DBT. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is built on the belief that our thoughts inform our feelings, which inform our behavior. Thus, changing your way of thinking will change your feelings and your behavior. Dialectical Behavioral therapy is a way of finding active and passive coping skills that allow one to stop unhelpful behaviors and replace them with healthy ways of coping and living. Neither of these approaches are especially concerned with digging into an individual's past experiences other than to inform how one may have developed a particular thought pattern.

 

Others may prefer the ones that are helpful in processing past experiences. These treatments still have a goal of improving the individual's life and changing behavior, however, it is done by looking at past traumas or difficult experiences to resolve the negative effects of those experiences on the individual's current life. One especially promising trauma treatment is called EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy. While this is showing to be very effective at resolving trauma, there are other effective treatments as well. 

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Essentially, all of these approaches have value, and most can be used in connection with the others. This means that there is a lot of flexibility in developing a plan for moving forward in a way that each individual is comfortable with and that makes sense for them and their life.

 

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