Mental Health Counseling & Therapies

One of the fundamental building blocks in our approach to therapy is cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, which is an evidence-based treatment shown to be effective in helping individuals overcome emotional and psychological distress, such as grief, stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. CBT can identify and help you change the kinds of thoughts and emotions that cause these unhelpful responses to life and the situations it presents. With CBT, we can challenge maladaptive ways of thinking by replacing unhelpful thoughts with more constructive and realistic thoughts, which breaks the vicious cycle of negative self-talk. With CBT, you can see these patterns in thought and be empowered to develop, practice, and use these skills to alter your thinking. Upon mastering the techniques of CBT, you'll make great leaps toward living a life in which you can calmly manage your emotions, make great choices, or live life with renewed clarity and confidence.

Besides CBT, our program uses behavioral therapy techniques, which means you will walk away with some practical coping strategies that can be used throughout your life. Behavioral therapy seeks to change negative habits that endanger an individual’s health and replace those habits with positive alternatives. Whether you are suffering from obsessions, compulsions, impulsivity, or phobias or have erratic patterns in daily life, together we can work to identify the behavior and come up with actionable ways to change it. Our behavioral therapy techniques support you in changing unwanted habits and behaviors for good through reinforcement strategies, skill building, and mindfulness. We want to help you shift from behavioral patterns that do not serve you toward more productive habits that lead to a healthier and more fulfilling future.

We also offer therapies that use Expressive Arts, Writing, and Poetry. These creative modalities of therapy encourage healing through creative self-expression, which allows you to  process complex emotions or trauma. Art, music, drama, dance, poetry, and writing allow you to creatively engage in an exploration of your feelings and release what might be affecting you when words alone cannot fully express it.

Using the arts creatively can help you uncover your innermost thoughts and feelings, allowing you to explore and understand personal experiences more deeply. It is a tool for healing wounds of trauma, raising self-consciousness, and creatively expanding your awareness of what the future holds.