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Treatment Approach

Specializing in Anxiety, Mood, Behavior, Crisis, Trauma, and Family Issues means that I am a strong CBT clinician.

CBT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a psychotherapeutic approach that aims to understand why we think feel and behave the way that we do. Through this process of gaining understanding and insight, we work to make changes to improve maladaptive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

In addition, it is a strength area of mine to address overwhelming emotional reactions and or behaviors in regards to frequency or intensity. In other words, crisis. Often this develops when there is a situational occurrence in regards to a trauma (that is not always the reason, as biology and hormones play a major role as well). In these cases, I utilize a combination of CBT, Behavior Modification, DBT, Crisis Intervention, Anger Management, Grief Therapy, Systematic Desensitization, Mindfulness, and Relaxation Techniques to help reduce distress, improve behavior, and restore a healthy level of functioning that has been impaired.

Values shared in my practice include: effective communication, realistic expectations, useful coping skills, healthy lifestyle choices, and good decision making. This is accomplished by assessing the level of functioning, utilizing strengths, gaining self awareness, identifying underlying issues, creating and achieving goals, and ultimately finding satisfaction and success in work, school, relationships, and life.

The bottom line in therapy with me - is to figure out what is impeding your functioning and then to find and implement a solution or solutions to improve or fix it. Therapy doesn’t cure, it treats.

My psychodynamic approach allows me to adapt, pull from, and implement a variety of treatment styles to ensure client needs are met. While most people will come in with one or two presenting or pressing issues or concerns, it is common and likely that additional and underlying topics eventually come up as well. For these reasons, I am well prepared to provide a range of effective treatment modalities.

A comprehensive list of treatment modalities I implement as needed include:

  • Anger Management

  • Attachment Therapy

  • Behavior Therapy/ Behavior Modification

  • Brief Dynamic Therapy

  • Cognitive Therapy

  • CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

  • Conflict Resolution

  • Couples Therapy

  • Crisis Intervention

  • DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy)

  • Dream Analysis / Dreamwork

  • EFT (Emotion Focused Therapy)

  • Exposure Therapy / Systematic Desensitization

  • Family Therapy

  • Gestalt Therapy

  • Grief Therapy

  • Group Therapy

  • Guided Imagery

  • Health Psychology

  • Humanistic Therapy

  • Hypnosis

  • Interpersonal Therapy

  • Mindfulness

  • Object Relations

  • Parent Work

  • Person Centered Therapy

  • Play Therapy

  • Positive Psychology with Strengths Based Approach

  • Psychoanalysis (modern approach)

  • Reality Therapy

  • Relaxation Techniques

Therapies and other services I have referred clients to receive in addition to our work together include:

  • Psychiatric Medication

  • Neurological Testing

  • TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation)

  • Biofeedback

  • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

  • DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy)

  • Equine Therapy

  • Physical Therapy

  • Occupational Therapy

  • Speech Therapy

  • In and Out Patient Substance Abuse Treatment

  • In Patient Mental Health Hospitalization

  • Chiropractic

  • Acupuncture

  • Massage (Relaxation and Medical)

  • Meditation

  • Yoga

  • Dance

  • Art Class (drawing, painting, pottery)

  • Martial Arts