Treatments We Offer

Emotionally-Focused therapy for Couples:

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is an evidence-backed couples therapy that helps partners reconnect by identifying and moving negative interaction patterns into more secure attachment bonds. EFT focuses on uncovering vulnerable, underlying emotions and attachment needs to reduce conflict and create safety, openness, and emotional responsiveness.

Gottman Therapy:

One of the major tenets of the Gottman Method is that couples require five times more positive interactions than negative, as negative emotions, like defensiveness and contempt, hurt a relationship more than positive ones heal. As a result, we focus on developing the skills and understanding necessary for partners to maintain fondness and admiration, turn toward each other to get their needs met, and manage conflict. It also focuses on how couples can react and repair relations when they do hurt each other.

Two hands reaching towards each other with index fingers almost touching, in front of gray industrial-like walls as couples connect
A tall brick building with fire escapes on the left side and a large white mural on the lower right side displaying the words 'How are you, really" helps open safety in therapy
Sun shining through the branches of a large, ancient-looking tree with thick, wide roots and abundant green leaves.

internal family systems

Do you ever wonder why seemingly ordinary events provoke anxiety? Why people-pleasing, rage, dissociation or shut down is your default setting? It’s because those parts are trying to protect you from buried traumas, discomfort, and pain that this particular experience is triggering. IFS is a powerful approach to understanding all of our parts. The mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. There are no bad parts - just ones that need healing so they can stand down to allow for some healthier ones can emerge.

ACCELERATED RESOLUTION THERAPY

A.R.T. is an extraordinary intervention to manage the negative physical sensations associated with anxiety, panic, PTSD, phobias, and distressing situations. By eliminating the overwhelm of body sensation (panic, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, insomnia), we can work through the distressing memories and process out trauma to allow for full centered healing. Similar to EMDR, the process involves non-invasive bilateral movement (clinical jargon for moving eyes left to right in a series to facilitate the “filing” of sensations (similar to the natural processing state during sleep called REM).