Therapy Approaches We Use

Our practice focuses on helping clients achieve significant, measurable change. All our treatments are based on well researched therapy modalities to give you the highest potential for success.

By learning about the treatment modalities, you can better engage in your healing. And if one modality doesn’t feel right, talk to your therapist about it, they will be grateful for the feedback and happy to try a different modality.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

IFS views the mind as naturally composed of multiple "parts," each with its own perspective and role. Rather than pathologizing difficult emotions, IFS holds that every part is trying to help in some way. At the center is the "Self," a calm, compassionate core that can learn to lead and harmonize the inner system. Through IFS, individuals develop the ability to approach their inner world with curiosity rather than judgment or shame.

Effective for: PTSD, Trauma, Depression, Anxiety disorders, Eating disorders, Low self-esteem and shame-based struggles

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT is based on the principle that thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected, and that by changing unhelpful thinking patterns, we can shift emotional responses and actions. CBT is structured, goal-oriented, and typically shorter in duration than many other approaches, equipping individuals with practical tools they can use long after therapy ends.

Effective for: Anxiety disorders, Depression, OCD, PTSD, Eating disorders, Insomnia, Panic Disorder

Attachment-Based Therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy helps individuals understand the relational patterns formed early in life create relational patterns and how those patterns influence current relationships, emotional regulation, and sense of self. Attachment-Based Therapy establishes a trusting environment to help heal deep-rooted emotional wounds, improve communication, overcome trust issues, and build healthier relationships.

Effective for: Anxiety, Depression, PTSD, trauma, Relationship and intimacy difficulties, Parent-child relational difficulties

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

DBT teaches that two seemingly opposite things can both be true at the same time. For example, you can accept yourself as you are while also working toward change. It focuses on four core skill areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.

Effective for: Suicidal ideation, self-harm, Eating disorders, Substance use and addiction, Treatment-resistant depression, Borderline Personality

Disorder (BPD)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT is based on the idea that suffering often comes not from difficult emotions themselves, but from our struggle to avoid or control them. Rather than trying to eliminate uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, ACT helps you accept them, recognize that they do not define you, and commit to living in alignment with your personal values, even in the presence of pain.

Effective for: Anxiety disorders, Depression, Chronic pain, OCD, Substance use and addiction

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

SFBT focuses on building solutions rather than exploring past problems. Sessions are built around a knowledge that you already possess the strengths and resources to change and guides you to finding practical solutions. People often experience meaningful progress in fewer sessions.

Effective for: Depression and low mood, Anxiety, Relationship and family conflict, Behavioral difficulties in children and adolescents, Substance use

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

MBCT teaches you to step back from automatic, habitual thinking and observe your thoughts and feelings with curiosity rather than getting swept up in them. Through guided meditation, body awareness, and cognitive skill-building, you learn to recognize early signs of distress and respond with intention rather than reaction. Over time, this shift in perspective helps break cycles of rumination, worry, and self-criticism before they escalate.

Effective for: Recurrent depression, Depression relapse prevention, Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Panic Disorder, Chronic pain and fatigue related mental illness, Stress-related conditions

What Is It?

In IFS, we accept that the mind is made up of different "parts", each trying to help in some way. For example, you may notice a worried part, an angry part, a happy part, or a compassionate part. Rather than fighting any of these feelings, all parts are welcomed without judgment. By learning to approach them with curiosity and compassion, you can develop a more peaceful and integrated relationship with yourself.

Why It Helps

Many people feel ashamed, overwhelmed, or confused by their emotions. IFS helps reduce fear around difficult feelings and builds self-awareness, emotional regulation, and confidence regardless of age or background.

What Sessions Often Feel Like

Sessions are inquisitive, collaborative, and personalized. Depending on your comfort and style, you may explore emotions through conversation, body awareness, imagery, or creative expression in a safe and supportive environment.

Benefits for Children, Families, Adults, & Couples

Children: IFS helps children identify and name their emotions without shame, building confidence and emotional regulation skills from an early age.
Families: Family members develop a shared language for emotions, reducing blame and creating a more compassionate and connected home environment.
Adults: Adults gain deeper insight into longstanding emotional patterns, internal conflicts, and self-critical voices, leading to greater self-compassion, clarity, and personal growth.
Couples: Partners learn to recognize how their own "parts," such as a defensive part or a fearful part, contribute to conflict, fostering greater empathy and communication.

What It Helps With

PTSD, Trauma, Depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, and low self-esteem and shame-based struggles.

What Is It?

CBT is based on the principle that thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected, and that by changing unhelpful thinking patterns, we can shift emotional responses and actions. CBT focuses on helping individuals recognize their unhelpful thinking patterns and equipping them with practical tools to change their thoughts, emotions, or behaviors.

Why It Helps

CBT is one of the most well-researched and effective approaches for anxiety, depression, and a wide range of other concerns. It helps you recognize cognitive distortions and gives you tools to restructure your thought patterns in ways that positively influence your emotions and behavior.

What Sessions Often Feel Like

Sessions often feel inquisitive, collaborative and focused on current challenges. You’ll deconstruct your current challenges, practice noticing unhelpful thought patterns, learning restructuring strategies, solving problems, and gradually facing fears with support and encouragement at a pace that feels manageable.

Benefits for Children, Families, Adults, & Couples

Children: CBT gives children concrete, age-appropriate tools to manage worry, fear, and frustration. Parents often participate to reinforce skills at home between sessions.
Families: Families learn to identify how shared thinking patterns and behaviors can maintain stress and conflict, and practice new ways of responding together.
Adults: Adults benefit from CBT's structured approach to identifying and challenging automatic negative thoughts, building coping skills, and making lasting behavioral changes in everyday life.
Couples: CBT-based couples work helps partners challenge negative assumptions about each other and replace unhelpful communication patterns with healthier ones.

What It Helps With

Generalized anxiety disorder, Social anxiety disorder, Panic disorder, Specific phobias, Depression, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, PTSD, Eating disorders, and Insomnia.

What Is It?

Attachment-based therapy focuses on understanding how early relationships have shaped the way you connect with others, regulate emotions, and experience safety. It helps you build more secure, fulfilling relationships in the present.

Why It Helps

Attachment-Based therapy develops a secure base, repairs bonds, empowers the beliefs that you are worthy of being loved as you are. It can help overcome early-life trauma, anxiety, and relational conflict, opening the door to deeper connection.

What Sessions Often Feel Like

Sessions may involve exploring your personal relational history, improving communication patterns, repairing past wounds, and building greater trust in yourself and in your relationships with others. This modality is often used in couples or family sessions but can also be used individually.

Benefits for Children, Families, Adults, & Couples

Children: Children develop a stronger sense of emotional security, which reduces anxiety and supports healthy social and emotional development.
Families: Families repair relational ruptures, strengthen emotional attunement, and build a foundation of safety and trust that benefits every member.
Adults: Adults gain insight into how early attachment experiences continue to influence their relationships, self-worth, and emotional responses, opening the door to more secure and satisfying connections.
Couples: Partners explore how their individual attachment styles shape intimacy and conflict, and learn to create a more secure bond with each other.

What It Helps With

Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, parent-child relational difficulties, insecure attachment styles, and relationship and intimacy difficulties.

What Is It?

DBT teaches that two seemingly opposite things can both be true at the same time. For example, you can accept yourself as you are while also working toward change. It focuses on four core skill areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.

Why It Helps

DBT helps balance acceptance (validating your current emotional reality) with change (learning to manage those emotions). It focuses on building skills and is particularly effective for treating severe mental illness.

What Sessions Often Feel Like

DBT is often delivered through a combination of individual therapy and skills training. Sessions are goal-oriented and you will learn and practice specific skills, track your emotions and behaviors between sessions, and work with your therapist to apply skills to real-life challenges.

Benefits for Children, Families, Adults, & Couples

Children: DBT was adapted specifically for teens and has strong research support for reducing self-harm, emotional outbursts, and suicidal behavior in young people.
Families: Family members often participate in DBT skills training to learn how to support their loved one, reduce enabling behaviors, and respond more effectively during crises.
Adults: Adults learn to apply DBT's four skill modules in real-life situations, including managing crisis moments, regulating overwhelming emotions, improving relationships, and building a life aligned with their values.
Couples: DBT skills with couples are most effective if emotional dysregulation drives conflict. DBT helps partners communicate more clearly and build interpersonal effectiveness to strengthen bonds.

What It Helps With

Suicidal ideation, self-harm, Eating disorders, Substance use and addiction, Treatment-resistant depression, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

What Is It?

ACT is based on the idea that suffering often comes not from difficult emotions themselves, but from our struggle to avoid or control them. Rather than trying to eliminate uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, ACT helps you accept them, recognize that they do not define you, and commit to living in alignment with your personal values, even in the presence of pain.

Why It Helps

ACT shifts the focus from symptom reduction to building a rich, meaningful life. It helps people develop psychological flexibility, which is the ability to stay present and take meaningful action regardless of what thoughts or emotions arise.

What Sessions Often Feel Like

Sessions blend experiential exercises, metaphors, mindfulness practices, and values clarification work. You are invited to observe your inner experiences with openness rather than judgment, identify what truly matters to you, and identify actions you can take within your capabilities.

Benefits for Children, Families, Adults, & Couples

Children: ACT helps young people reduce avoidance behaviors, and engage more fully in school, friendships, and activities they care about.
Families: Families learn to approach conflict and difficulty with greater openness and less reactivity, reconnecting around shared values and goals even during challenging seasons.
Adults: Adults use ACT to stop fighting against their inner experiences and instead focus energy on living according to their values, reducing avoidance, increasing engagement, and building a life with greater meaning and vitality.
Couples: Partners use ACT principles to stop fighting against each other's differences and instead focus on shared values and how to achieve them together.

What It Helps With

Anxiety disorders, Depression, Chronic pain, OCD, Substance use

What Is It?

SFBT focuses on building solutions rather than exploring past problems. Sessions are built around a knowledge that you already possess the strengths and resources to change and guides you to finding practical solutions. People often experience meaningful progress in fewer sessions.

Why It Helps

SFBT guides you through imagining your preferred future, identifying areas you have succeeded in the past, and taking small, concrete steps toward change. It builds confidence and momentum by helping you recognize that you already possess many of the tools you need to create change.

What Sessions Often Feel Like

Sessions are collaborative, focused on problem solving, and often feel empowering as you realize you are capable of making change than you previously thought. Your therapist will ask questions designed to help you imagine your preferred future, notice exceptions to circumstantial problems, and identify the small steps that can move you in the right direction.

Benefits for Children, Families, Adults, & Couples

Children: SFBT's strength-based approach is particularly empowering for young people, helping them feel capable and hopeful rather than defined by their struggles.
Families: SFBT helps families identify shared goals, recognize what is already going well, and build on existing strengths rather than getting stuck in patterns of conflict and frustration.
Adults: Adults appreciate SFBT's forward-focused, strength-based approach and change often comes quickly.
Couples: SFBT helps couples practice working together to solve problems collaboratively rather than blaming each other for their difficulties..

What It Helps With

Depression and low mood, Anxiety, Relationship and family conflict, Behavioral difficulties in children and adolescents, Substance use

What Is It?

MBCT teaches you to step back from automatic, habitual thinking and observe your thoughts and feelings with curiosity rather than getting swept up in them. Through guided meditation, body awareness, and cognitive skill-building, you learn to recognize early signs of distress and respond with intention rather than reaction. Over time, this shift in perspective helps break cycles of rumination, worry, and self-criticism before they escalate.

Why It Helps

MBCT helps you recognize early warning signs of emotional distress and respond to them skillfully before they escalate. Rather than trying to fix or suppress difficult thoughts, you learn to relate to them differently, as mental events that pass rather than facts or permanent states.

What Sessions Often Feel Like

Sessions feel calm, and grounded and include guided meditation practices, gentle movement, group or individual discussion, and skill-building exercises. Between sessions, you are encouraged to practice mindfulness daily in short, accessible ways.

Benefits for Children, Families, Adults, & Couples

Children: Build skills that support both academic performance and emotional wellbeing by learning to slow down, manage stress, and develop greater self-awareness.
Families: Families that practice mindfulness together often experience a greater sense of calm and connection in daily family life.
Adults: Adults are better able to maintain progress over the long term and shorten symptom recurrence using MBCT.
Couples: Mindfulness practice helps partners become more present and less reactive during difficult conversations, creating space for greater understanding and overall relationship satisfaction.

What It Helps With

Recurrent depression, Depression relapse prevention, Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Panic Disorder, Chronic pain and fatigue related mental illness, Stress-related conditions

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Therapy Approaches We Use

Modality Overview

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

What Is It?

Why It Helps

What Sessions Often Feel Like

Benefits for Children, Families, Adults, & Couples

What It Helps With

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

What Is It?

Why It Helps

What Sessions Often Feel Like

Benefits for Children, Families, Adults, & Couples

What It Helps With

Attachment-Based Therapy

What Is It?

Attachment-based therapy focuses on understanding how early relationships have shaped the way you connect with others, regulate emotions, and experience safety. It helps you build more secure, fulfilling relationships in the present.

Why It Helps

Attachment-Based therapy develops a secure base, repairs bonds, empowers the beliefs that you are worthy of being loved as you are. It can help overcome early-life trauma, anxiety, and relational conflict, opening the door to deeper connection.

What Sessions Often Feel Like

Sessions may involve exploring your personal relational history, improving communication patterns, repairing past wounds, and building greater trust in yourself and in your relationships with others. This modality is often used in couples or family sessions but can also be used individually.

Benefits for Children, Families, Adults, & Couples

Children: Children develop a stronger sense of emotional security, which reduces anxiety and supports healthy social and emotional development.

Families: Families repair relational ruptures, strengthen emotional attunement, and build a foundation of safety and trust that benefits every member.

Adults: Adults gain insight into how early attachment experiences continue to influence their relationships, self-worth, and emotional responses, opening the door to more secure and satisfying connections.

Couples: Partners explore how their individual attachment styles shape intimacy and conflict, and learn to create a more secure bond with each other.

What It Helps With

Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, parent-child relational difficulties, insecure attachment styles, and relationship and intimacy difficulties.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

What Is It?

DBT teaches that two seemingly opposite things can both be true at the same time. For example, you can accept yourself as you are while also working toward change. It focuses on four core skill areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.

Why It Helps

DBT helps balance acceptance (validating your current emotional reality) with change (learning to manage those emotions). It focuses on building skills and is particularly effective for treating severe mental illness.

What Sessions Often Feel Like

DBT is often delivered through a combination of individual therapy and skills training. Sessions are goal-oriented and you will learn and practice specific skills, track your emotions and behaviors between sessions, and work with your therapist to apply skills to real-life challenges.

Benefits for Children, Families, Adults, & Couples

Children: DBT was adapted specifically for teens and has strong research support for reducing self-harm, emotional outbursts, and suicidal behavior in young people.

Families: Family members often participate in DBT skills training to learn how to support their loved one, reduce enabling behaviors, and respond more effectively during crises.

Adults: Adults learn to apply DBT's four skill modules in real-life situations, including managing crisis moments, regulating overwhelming emotions, improving relationships, and building a life aligned with their values.

Couples: DBT skills with couples are most effective if emotional dysregulation drives conflict. DBT helps partners communicate more clearly and build interpersonal effectiveness to strengthen bonds.

What It Helps With

Suicidal ideation, self-harm, Eating disorders, Substance use and addiction, Treatment-resistant depression, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

What Is It?

Why It Helps

ACT shifts the focus from symptom reduction to building a rich, meaningful life. It helps people develop psychological flexibility, which is the ability to stay present and take meaningful action regardless of what thoughts or emotions arise.

What Sessions Often Feel Like

Sessions blend experiential exercises, metaphors, mindfulness practices, and values clarification work. You are invited to observe your inner experiences with openness rather than judgment, identify what truly matters to you, and identify actions you can take within your capabilities.

Benefits for Children, Families, Adults, & Couples

Children: ACT helps young people reduce avoidance behaviors, and engage more fully in school, friendships, and activities they care about.

Families: Families learn to approach conflict and difficulty with greater openness and less reactivity, reconnecting around shared values and goals even during challenging seasons.

Adults: Adults use ACT to stop fighting against their inner experiences and instead focus energy on living according to their values, reducing avoidance, increasing engagement, and building a life with greater meaning and vitality.

Couples: Partners use ACT principles to stop fighting against each other's differences and instead focus on shared values and how to achieve them together.

What It Helps With

Anxiety disorders, Depression, Chronic pain, OCD, Substance use

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

What Is It?

SFBT focuses on building solutions rather than exploring past problems. Sessions are built around a knowledge that you already possess the strengths and resources to change and guides you to finding practical solutions. People often experience meaningful progress in fewer sessions.

Why It Helps

SFBT guides you through imagining your preferred future, identifying areas you have succeeded in the past, and taking small, concrete steps toward change. It builds confidence and momentum by helping you recognize that you already possess many of the tools you need to create change.

What Sessions Often Feel Like

Benefits for Children, Families, Adults, & Couples

Children: SFBT's strength-based approach is particularly empowering for young people, helping them feel capable and hopeful rather than defined by their struggles.

Families: SFBT helps families identify shared goals, recognize what is already going well, and build on existing strengths rather than getting stuck in patterns of conflict and frustration.

Adults: Adults appreciate SFBT's forward-focused, strength-based approach and change often comes quickly.

Couples: SFBT helps couples practice working together to solve problems collaboratively rather than blaming each other for their difficulties..

What It Helps With

Depression and low mood, Anxiety, Relationship and family conflict, Behavioral difficulties in children and adolescents, Substance use

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

What Is It?

Why It Helps

MBCT helps you recognize early warning signs of emotional distress and respond to them skillfully before they escalate. Rather than trying to fix or suppress difficult thoughts, you learn to relate to them differently, as mental events that pass rather than facts or permanent states.

What Sessions Often Feel Like

Sessions feel calm, and grounded and include guided meditation practices, gentle movement, group or individual discussion, and skill-building exercises. Between sessions, you are encouraged to practice mindfulness daily in short, accessible ways.

Benefits for Children, Families, Adults, & Couples

Children: Build skills that support both academic performance and emotional wellbeing by learning to slow down, manage stress, and develop greater self-awareness.

Families: Families that practice mindfulness together often experience a greater sense of calm and connection in daily family life.

Adults: Adults are better able to maintain progress over the long term and shorten symptom recurrence using MBCT.

Couples: Mindfulness practice helps partners become more present and less reactive during difficult conversations, creating space for greater understanding and overall relationship satisfaction.

What It Helps With