My core treatment orientations are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Existential Therapy. They are foundational approachs for my work with relationships, sexuality, trauma, and addiction.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
“People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.”
Epictetus, Stoic philosopher
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is arguably the gold standard for modern psychotherapy, from which all other therapies are derived, related, or in reaction to. It takes a direct look at the relationships between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, how they influence our beliefs about ourselves, others, and the world, and what we can do to change those relationships for the better.
Emotionally Focused Therapy
“Although many of us think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think.”
Jill Bolte Taylor, neuroanatomist
Emotionally Focused Therapy recognizes that our emotional lives are the source of our desires, values, sense of meaning and purpose, and attachment to self, others, and the world. Its goal is to help clients effectively acknowledge, cope with, and regulate their emotions in order to enrich and transform their lives.
Narrative Therapy
“The problem is the problem, the person is not the problem.”
Michael White and David Epston, psychotherapists, founders of Narrative Therapy
Narrative Therapy is a postmodern approach to psychotherapy. It helps the client reframe their difficulties as primarily social and outside of themselves, which gives them more options for personal agency and effective change.
Existential Therapy
“Death and life are interdependent: though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death saves us.”
Irvin D. Yalom, psychotherapist
Existential Therapy focuses on the inherent conditions of life and how they impact our experience as human beings. It helps people find understanding and transformation in the face of death, isolation, meaninglessness, and freedom.
Additional Treatment Orientations That I Use:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Feminist Therapy
- Gestalt Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Experiential Therapy
- Internal Family Systems Therapy
- Jungian Theory
- Mindfulness
- Motivational Interviewing
- Non-Violent Communication
- Poststructural & Postmodern Theory
- Psychodrama
- Refuge Recovery
- SMART Recovery
- Structural Therapy
- Transpersonal Therapy
- Twelve Step Theory