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Our Approach
Psychotherapy Rooted in Evidence-Based Practice
We offer an integrative approach to the support we provide. This means that we are able to meet you exactly where you are in your journey. By combining principles, techniques, and theories from multiple evidence-based therapeutic modalities, we are able to offer holistic support that considers your emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and physiological well-being.
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Emotion-Focused Therapy is an evidence-based, humanistic-experiential psychotherapy that views emotions as the primary driver of human experience, behavior, and therapeutic change. It helps clients learn to identify, experience, process, and transform their emotions. The goal is to increase emotional competence—the ability to utilize emotions for adaptive functioning and to foster secure relationships.
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Emotionally Focused Family Therapy ― follows the principles and practices of Emotionally Focused Therapy to restore connection and promote resilience in family relationships. The principle goal of EFFT is to re-establish more secure family patterns where attachment and caregiving responses are effective and emotional bonds are repaired. These resources inform a network of security that provides the flexibility and closeness necessary for families to promote individual growth and meaningful relationships across generations.
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Somatic Therapy is a form of body-centered therapy that looks at the connection of mind and body and uses both psychotherapy and physical therapies for holistic healing. The therapist works from the understanding that the mind and body are intimately connected, though not always in apparent ways, thoughts, emotions, and sensations are all interconnected and influence one another.
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a structured therapy that focuses on teaching four core skills (mindfulness, acceptance & distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness) to help you create a good life for yourself. You work on those skills through a series of lessons and then start applying them to your life.
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Mindfulness-based interventions emphasize being present and aware of thoughts, feelings, and sensations without immediately reacting or trying to change them. This approach can be particularly helpful for managing stress, anxiety, and depression by increasing awareness of one's internal and external environment, promoting a sense of equanimity, and reducing reactivity.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a structured, evidence-based, goal-oriented type of talk therapy that helps individuals manage their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to improve their well-being. CBT is based on several core principals including: issues of anxiety etc. are based, in part, on unhelpful ways of thinking, problems are based, in part, on learned patterns of unhelpful behavior, individuals can learn better ways of coping.
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Exposure and Response Prevention is a form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) primarily used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The exposure component of ERP refers to practicing confronting the thoughts, images, objects, and situations that make you anxious and/or provoke your obsessive thoughts. The response prevention refers to making a choice not to participate in compulsive behaviours even after the distress has started. The goal is to help individuals learn to tolerate the anxiety and distress associated with obsessions without engaging in compulsions.
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Acceptance and commitment therapy is an action-oriented approach to psychotherapy that stems from traditional behavior therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. ACT aims to develop and expand psychological flexibility. Psychological flexibility encompasses emotional openness and the ability to adapt your thoughts and behaviors to better align with your values and goals.
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