Counseling Options & Treatment Modalities
Choose the type of counseling that suits your current needs. Learn about different therapy approaches.
Individual
One on one interaction with a trained professional to work on problems or issues. The goal is to help you process your situation, work on gaining insight into your problem and ultimately find solutions to heal, restore, enhance and encourage you to live a better you. The you that you decide to be. An initial assessment is done to assess needs and length of treatment. Treatment varies depending on the reason for therapy. Therapy is a gradual process and done so to ensure safety, and to explore the problem in-depth in order to achieve the best possible outcome for success.
When working with young children and teens, attention span and other factors such as focus, concentration, and cognitive development are taking into consideration when determining length of sessions.
Session Duration: (45 Minutes)
Couples
Couples consist of two individuals; married, engaged or otherwise in a committed intimate or sexual relationship. Couples typically start off deeply connected and strong with normal ups and downs, fair fighting, and growing pains. However, sometimes something major happens or multiple things may occur during the relationship that derails the two and causes conflict. This conflict in turn stops the progression of a satisfied relationship. If both individuals are willing and able to demonstrate insight, communicate with one another their thoughts and feelings, and brainstorm solutions the problem may can be addressed and resolved without help. Other times couples need a trained professional to help them explore the source of the conflict and serve as an unbiased mediator. Couple sessions must be combined with Individual sessions. This allows both individuals the ability to express their thoughts and feelings and be provided tools and techniques to improve relationship satisfaction. However, If after therapy the couple still decide mutually or not mutually to end the relationship the two will still have gained insight into the role they played in the relationship or conflict and can seek individual therapy if they need to process the break-up, divorce, or separation and further work on themselves.
(45 Minutes)
Family
Families go through ups and downs, have fall outs, and disagreements. However, families sometimes experience situations or ongoing conflict that require the attention of a trained professional to help get the family to or back to a functional state. If there is parent child conflict or parental issues that are effecting the entire family then family therapy may can assist in finding ways to help each member be heard, feel validated, understood and collectively explore solutions. Typically seen in family therapy are the immediate family members such as parents and their minor children or adult children, or siblings.
(45 Minutes)
My Preferred Treatment Modalities
Brief Psychodynamic Therapy
This approach will help you explore feelings you may not be aware of. It helps you connect the unconscious components of your life to the present. The goal is to help you understand how your behavior and mood are affected by unresolved issues and unconscious feelings. Once you are aware, solutions can be brainstormed to heal you and resolve the conflict.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
CBT, focuses on how you think. Your THOUGHTS connect to your FEELINGS, and your BEHAVIOR; If you think a certain way, you may feel a certain way and behave a certain way. The three elements all connect, known as the cognitive triangle. CBT focuses on identifying and changing dysfunctional patterns of thought in order to alter negative, overwhelming feelings and unhealthy behavior.
Interpersonal Therapy
Interpersonal therapy focuses on your relationships with others such as with family and friends. The primary goal of this therapy is to improve communication skills and increase self-esteem during a short period of time. It usually lasts three to four months and works well for depression caused by mourning, relationship conflicts, major life events, and social isolation.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy tries to identify and change negative thinking patterns and pushes for positive behavioral changes.
DBT may be used to treat suicidal and other self-destructive behaviors. It teaches patients skills to cope with, and change, unhealthy behaviors.
The term "dialectical" comes from the idea that bringing together two opposites in therapy -- acceptance and change -- brings better results than either one alone.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) concentrates on finding solutions in the present time and exploring one's hope for the future to find quicker resolution of one's problems. This method takes the approach that you know what you need to do to improve your own life and, with the appropriate coaching and questioning, are capable of finding the best solutions.
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational interviewing helps people resolve ambivalent feelings and insecurities to find the internal motivation they need to change their behavior. It has five main principals.