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Individual Psychotherapy
We specialize in individual psychotherapy, providing personalized care tailored to meet the unique needs of each client. Our experienced therapists employ a range of evidence-based modalities, from cognitive-behavioral techniques to somatic approaches, ensuring a comprehensive treatment plan.
Specialties
We specialize in providing personalized care for a wide range of emotional and mental health needs. Our focus is on helping clients navigate challenges, build resilience, and create meaningful, lasting change in their lives.
Major depression is one of the most common mental illnesses, affecting more than 8% (21 million) of American adults each year.* If you find yourself feeling persistently down and unable to enjoy activities you once did—along with other symptoms of depression—you might be experiencing its impacts. High-functioning depression, where things may seem fine externally, can similarly affect how you feel, think, and behave. Over time, this can deepen into intense feelings of sadness and a sense of unworthiness.
Anxiety is more than persistent worry; it manifests through both mental and physical symptoms such as decision-making difficulties, tension, sleep disturbances, concentration issues, panic attacks, and rapid heartbeat. Individuals with anxiety may find themselves in cycles of seeking reassurance and control to ease their discomfort. Common coping strategies include perfectionism, procrastination, and people-pleasing, which can undermine personal relationships and prevent full engagement in the present moment.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder marked by intrusive thoughts and, at times, compulsive behaviors. These patterns emerge as the brain's attempt to mitigate perceived threats, even if they are irrational. While compulsive actions may provide short-term relief, the distress often returns.
Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy (ERP) is an evidence-based cognitive-behavioral treatment for OCD. ERP helps individuals confront intrusive thoughts through systematic exposure, coupled with soothing techniques to support the nervous system. This therapy aims to build emotional and cognitive resilience, reduce the need for compulsive behaviors, and teach individuals to view intrusive thoughts as transient and non-threatening. Over time, ERP fosters a healthier response to intrusive thoughts, promoting long-term relief from OCD symptoms.
Trauma is often misunderstood in today's society. We define trauma as any experience that leaves an individual feeling completely helpless and trapped. Trauma can be categorized into 'big T' and 'little T' events, each affecting individuals differently. It's crucial to recognize and understand your triggers to prevent being caught off guard by unexpected physical, emotional, or behavioral responses.
Often, people react to trauma with subconscious fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses. To address and process trauma effectively, we utilize a variety of therapeutic approaches, including:
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Somatic Therapies
IFS (Internal Family Systems)
Trauma-Informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
These methods help treat trauma-related symptoms by integrating body and mind, fostering recovery, and restoring a sense of control.
Childhood abuse can manifest in various forms, including physical, sexual, verbal, emotional abuse, and neglect. Such experiences can subtly affect both your self-perception and relationships in ways you might not consciously recognize. The impact of these childhood experiences is profound, shaping our worldview and our ability to trust others. This often hampers the ability to form secure and safe attachments in adulthood. Furthermore, the coping mechanisms developed in childhood, initially meant for protection or adaptation, may become unhealthy or counterproductive later in life. Recognizing, addressing, and disrupting these patterns is crucial for healing and growth.
Personality disorders are characterized by pervasive patterns of behavior, thinking, and feeling that are consistent across various life situations. These patterns often include rigid beliefs about oneself, others, or the world. Individuals with personality disorders may struggle to recognize their own roles or responsibilities in situations (a concept known as ego-syntonic behavior).
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD): Common traits include grandiosity, narcissism, self-centeredness, a sense of entitlement, and a desire to be associated only with those deemed worthy or affluent. These individuals often lack empathy and struggle to understand others' emotions.
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): Borderline Personality Disorder is frequently misunderstood, carrying a stigma that can affect those diagnosed. Key features include emotional dysregulation, an intense fear of abandonment, and frantic efforts to avoid being abandoned. Individuals with BPD often experience extreme mood swings, engage in black-and-white thinking, and show a pattern of unstable relationships.
Trauma-Related Disorders: These disorders arise from traumatic experiences and often overlap with symptoms seen in personality disorders, especially in terms of relationship instability and emotional regulation difficulties.
Chronic illness and pain often remain silent and unseen, yet they require considerable energy and attention, frequently leading to exhaustion and burnout as individuals manage various aspects of their lives. Beyond physical symptoms, chronic illness and pain can significantly impact mental health, often intensifying feelings of anxiety and depression due to the ongoing burden of health management.
We provide support in a safe, non-judgmental space designed to facilitate emotional processing and logistical organization. Our aim is to help enhance your sense of balance and capacity for self-care. For those grappling with the sudden onset of a chronic condition, we offer guidance in navigating the emotional and psychological upheaval that such changes can bring. Together, we will work on building resilience, fostering radical acceptance, and finding peace amidst the challenges posed by your health.
Life transitions are an inevitable part of the human experience, encompassing periods of adjustment, significant changes, and pivotal moments. These transitions can range from career shifts and becoming a parent or caretaker, to moving homes, starting or ending significant relationships, or facing periods of general uncertainty.
Therapy provides a valuable resource during these times. It offers a supportive space to process your emotions, make sense of your experiences, build resilience, and navigate these changes more effectively. Engaging in therapy can help you transition more smoothly and with greater understanding of the personal growth that comes with change.
As humans, we are inherently social beings with a fundamental need for community and connection, which profoundly influences our well-being. If you find yourself stuck in repetitive, unsupportive patterns in your relationships with partners, friends, or family, it might be time to explore these dynamics further.
Our early relationships often set the groundwork for our adult interactions, creating unconscious blueprints that shape how we connect with others. In therapy, we explore these foundational experiences and the patterns they've instilled, which are aimed at fostering connection and closeness.
By understanding and addressing these underlying dynamics, we help individuals evolve beyond insecure attachment patterns. Our goal is to empower you to establish secure, reciprocal, and genuinely fulfilling relationships.
Self-esteem and confidence are critical components of our mental health and overall well-being, influencing how we perceive ourselves and interact with the world. Low self-esteem can lead to a host of challenges, including difficulty in making decisions, fear of judgment, and problems in personal and professional relationships.
​Assertiveness training helps individuals learn how to express their thoughts and feelings confidently and openly, without aggression or passivity. This form of therapy empowers clients to set healthy boundaries, advocate for themselves, and navigate social interactions more effectively, thereby enhancing self-esteem and building genuine confidence.
Psychodynamic therapy is a therapeutic approach that delves deep into an individual's unconscious processes to uncover the root causes of psychological distress. It builds on the foundational principles of psychoanalytic theory, which suggests that unresolved conflicts from the past can influence present behavior and emotions. By exploring these unconscious patterns, psychodynamic therapy helps individuals gain insight into their emotional world and understand the origins of their difficulties. This understanding fosters emotional healing and personal growth, enabling individuals to resolve these conflicts and move forward with greater self-awareness and improved mental health.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is a comprehensive cognitive-behavioral treatment that emphasizes the psychosocial aspects of therapy. DBT was originally developed to help individuals with borderline personality disorder and chronic suicidal thoughts, but it has since been adapted for a wide range of other challenges involving emotional dysregulation. This therapy focuses on teaching clients skills in four key areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT helps clients develop healthier ways to cope with and regulate intense emotions, improve their relationships, and lead more mindful, present lives. Through individual therapy, group skills training, and phone coaching, DBT supports individuals in building resilience and achieving emotional stability.
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is a therapeutic approach based on the premise that emotions are key to identity and a crucial source of meaning and direction in life. EFT helps individuals to become more aware of their emotional experiences, understand how emotions influence their thoughts and actions, and learn to use them constructively. This therapy is particularly effective in helping clients address issues of self-regulation, reduce the intensity of negative emotions, and transform problematic emotional states into ones that promote resilience and well-being. EFT is widely used in individual and couples therapy to foster healthier relationships by improving emotional connection and communication.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a highly effective, evidence-based therapeutic approach that focuses on identifying and changing negative thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to emotional distress and psychological issues. CBT operates on the principle that our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected, and that altering one can positively influence the others. Through techniques like cognitive restructuring and behavioral experiments, CBT empowers individuals to challenge dysfunctional beliefs, develop healthier thinking patterns, and adopt more constructive behaviors. This approach is widely used for treating a variety of disorders, including anxiety, depression, and phobias, offering practical tools that clients can use to manage and overcome their challenges.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an innovative psychotherapeutic approach that views the mind as naturally multiple, with a unique internal system of sub-personalities or 'parts' alongside a core self. Each part has its distinct viewpoints, emotions, and history, often serving a protective role for the individual. IFS aims to promote harmony and balance within the internal system by helping individuals understand and heal their parts. This process involves recognizing these parts, understanding their intentions, and transforming their roles through the compassionate and curious leadership of the self. IFS is particularly effective in treating a variety of mental health issues by fostering greater self-awareness, self-compassion, and the ability to manage complex emotional responses.
Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy (ERP) is a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy specifically designed to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). ERP is based on the principle that deliberate, systematic exposure to obsessive thoughts, impulses, or images (exposure) and refraining from engaging in the compulsive behaviors typically used to reduce the resulting anxiety (response prevention) can lessen the power of the obsessions over time. During ERP, clients are guided by a therapist to face their fears without resorting to rituals or avoidance, effectively learning to tolerate the discomfort and anxiety through gradual, controlled exposure. This process helps break the cycle of OCD by teaching the brain that the feared outcomes are unlikely to occur, thereby reducing the compulsive need to perform rituals.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a holistic modality in which ketamine is used as a complement to psychotherapy to help eligible patients experience more frequent breakthroughs and sustained improvement in symptoms.
Ketamine is a legal, safe, and effective medicine used to treat a variety of mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Ketamine has rapidly-acting antidepressant and mood-enhancing effects, which can begin to take effect within 1-2 hrs. after treatment. It works by blocking the brain’s NMDA receptors as well as by stimulating AMPA receptors, which are thought to help form new synaptic connections and boost neural circuits that regulate stress and mood. Ketamine has also been shown to enhance overall neuroplasticity for lasting symptom improvement.
Modalities
We utilize a diverse range of therapeutic approaches, carefully selected to match your unique goals and circumstances. Our aim is to provide a dynamic, personalized path toward meaningful change and healing.