Specialties

Individual Therapy

Individual therapy is an opportunity for a client and therapist to identify and address issues that may be impacting the quality of life of the client. Some people seek therapy when they have an urgent, specific issue or crisis, in transition, experiencing difficulty making decisions, thus impacting quality of life.

Some of the issues we can address include but are not limited to:

Child and Family Therapy

Family therapy is used to address distress and conflicts that may be present in the family system by improving interactions. Family therapy looks at the presenting problems as patterns or systems that need adjusting versus viewing the person as having the problems. 

Some people seek family therapy for the following reasons:

• When a child is having difficulty in school substance abuse, relational issues 

• Major changes that impact the entire family such as moving, natural disaster, incarceration/deportation of a family member 

• Adjustment to new family member in the home- adoption, birth of a sibling, foster children, grandparents or other family members moving in

• Domestic violence

• Divorce

• Parent Conflict

EMDR Therapy

As defined by the EMDR Institute, Inc., “Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a comprehensive, integrative psychotherapy approach. It contains elements of many effective psychotherapies in structured protocols that are designed to maximize treatment effects. These include:

• psychodynamic

• cognitive behavioral

• interpersonal

• experiential

• body-centered therapies.

EMDR is an information processing therapy and uses an eight-phase approach to address the experiential contributors of a wide range of pathologies. It attends to the past experiences that have set the groundwork for pathology, the current situations that trigger dysfunctional emotions, beliefs and sensations, and the positive experience needed to enhance future adaptive behaviors and mental health.

During treatment various procedures and protocols are used to address the entire clinical picture. One of the procedural elements is “dual stimulation” using either bilateral eye movements, tones or taps. During the reprocessing phases the client attends momentarily to past memories, present triggers, or anticipated future experiences while simultaneously focusing on a set of external stimulus. During that time, clients generally experience the emergence of insight, changes in memories, or new associations. The clinician assists the client to focus on appropriate material before initiation of each subsequent set.”