EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing(EMDR) is a structured approach to psychotherapy that uses bilateral stimulation to activate the brain’s natural healing process. EMDR is popularly used to aid in recovery from trauma and other life experiences including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorders. This modality is designed to resolve unprocessed traumatic memories in the brain by uncovering the stressor and allowing to resume is natural way of processing and healing from the experience.

CBT

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that helps people become more aware of inaccurate or negative thinking patterns impacting them, in turn challenging them in order to change behaviors. As a result, gaining the ability to view challenging situations more clearly and respond in a more effective way. CBT is used to help identify the internal structures that keep people in destructive or disturbing patterns & replace the automatic negative thoughts with more objective, realistic, and grounded solutions.

Polyvagal Theory

Polyvagal Theory is applied in therapy by providing a physiological and psychological understanding of how and why people move through a continual cycle of mobilization, disconnection, and social engagement. Polyvagal theory informs us that traumatic stress symptoms are biologically based and somatically experienced. Applying this theory in our practice allows our therapists to better understand the ways that clients need to work through their load in the wholistic way that addresses the physical and mental parts for optimal healing and processing.

ACT

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a form of behavioral therapy that helps increase self-awareness, embrace life as it is currently being lived, and move people toward self-acceptance. ACT is used to help navigate our emotions when negative thoughts, feelings, symptoms, or circumstances arise, leaving us with a disregulated nervous system. This approach encourages the client’s connection to healthy and constructive habits or activities that lead them to act according to their values and support their goals.

Heartmath

HeartMath technology is an innovative approach to improving emotional wellbeing. Learn to change your heart rhythm pattern to create physiological coherence; a scientifically measurable state characterized by increased order and harmony in our mind, emotions and body. This approach is comprised of short, solution focused therapy that involves brief training sessions. Clients train to use heart rate variability, shifting the body to a state of coherence, in order to decrease negative thoughts and physical symptoms and increase positive outcomes.

DBT

Dialectical thinking refers to the ability to view issues from multiple perspectives and to arrive at the most reasonable truth when they are considered together. Using this concept in DBT allows people to work with the concept that their is more than one way to think about a situation and apply this to changing behaviors that are having a negative impact on them. The applications of this therapy work to improve relationships and build behaviors that increase self-esteem and self-respect.