Kinds of Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a type of psychotherapy that uses acceptance and mindfulness to help individuals develop psychological flexibility by accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that align with their values. This is a form of therapy to support people with chronic/life-long health conditions, substance abuse, addiction disorders, sexual dysfunctions, gender dysphoria.
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), is a healing-based, transformation-oriented model of psychotherapy that helps individuals process trauma and other emotional challenges by fostering emotional experience and developing resilience. This approach to therapy is based on the client-therapist bond as a catalyst for real change. This form of therapy is like having a support person or life coach.
Behavioral Therapy
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy is a scientific approach that uses learning principles to increase positive behaviors and decrease problematic ones, often used with individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities, focusing on observable behaviors and data-driven interventions. This type of therapy is for children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapy that helps you identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors by focusing on the relationship between your thoughts, feelings, and actions to improve your mental health. This form of therapy helps clients overcome anxiety disorders, clinical depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorders, paraphilic disorders, and elimination disorders.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a type of evidence-based psychotherapy designed to help individuals with emotional regulation difficulties, specifically to help those who want to overcome intense emotions, self-destructive behaviors, and interpersonal difficulties. It can be used to treat people struggling with borderline personality disorder, substance use disorders, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, dissociative disorders, attention-hyperactive disorder, disruptive/impulse-control, & conduct disorders.
Humanistic Therapy
Client-centered therapy, also known as person-centered therapy, is a non-directive form of talk therapy where the therapist acts as a guide, encouraging the client to actively explore their thoughts and feelings, rather than offering solutions or advice. This kind of therapy is individualized, perceives a child client or adult as a blank canvas. The client is the best eyewitness and narrator of their story.
Interpersonal Therapy
Interpersonal therapy (IPT) is a time-limited, evidence-based psychotherapy that focuses on improving interpersonal relationships to alleviate mental health symptoms. This type of therapy helps individuals with their reltationships with families, friends, partners in order to improve the quality of the interpersonal relationship, understand healthy and unhealthy patterns of behavior, and/or set firm boundaries in order to create new, positive relationships.
Jungian Therapy
Jungian therapy is a type of psychological treatment that focuses on exploring the deeper aspects of the mind. It looks at how unconscious thoughts and feelings influence our behavior and aims to help individuals understand themselves better. Through various techniques, such as examining dreams and exploring personal symbols, Jungian therapy seeks to support personal growth and emotional well-being. This approach to therapy is beneficial for individuals who are intersex and people who identify as LGBTQ+
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy, rooted in psychoanalytic theory, focuses on exploring unconscious processes and unresolved conflicts that influence current thoughts, behaviors, and relationships, aiming to promote self-awareness and insight. This is beneficial in helping clients break-down childhood experiences and heal trauma one talk therapy session at a time. It can help deep-rooted trauma involving victims of verbal, emotional, sexual, financial abuse.
Play Therapy
Play therapy is a type of mental health treatment where a trained therapist uses play and creative activities to help children express their thoughts and emotions, and work through challenges, fostering growth and development. This helps children improve their verbal expression and increase social skills, which can be generalized behavior in school settings. This can improve a child's overall mental well-being to become well-regulated adults in the future.
Psychoanalytic Therapy
Psychoanalytic therapy is a form of talk therapy based on Sigmund Freud's theories of psychoanalysis. The approach explores how the unconscious mind influences your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This type of therapy helps people who experience nightmares or post-traumatic stress. This deep-rooted work allows a client to see themselves as an iceberg, with one therapy session at a time.