Brainspotting uses spots in a person’s visual field to help them identify, process, and overcome trauma, pain, and negative emotions. When one focuses on an eye position that is related to an upsetting issue or struggle, one can release the physical and emotional stress that comes with the issue. Brainspotting has been shown to be effective in treating many issues including but not limited to: PTSD, Complex Trauma, Public Speaking, Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, Chronic Pain, OCD, Insomnia, and Low Self-Esteem.

“Where you look affects how you feel.” - David Grand

ERP is an evidence-based therapeutic approach for OCD and anxiety. ERP helps individuals learn how to confront their fears and discomforts. It allows one to manage the uncertainty and distress that obsessions cause and how to change compulsive behaviors.

“Everything you have ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear” - George Addair

CBT focuses on how thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes affect feelings and behaviors. CBT helps identify and change negative thinking patterns, emotions, and behaviors. The CBT triangle is often used to show how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are all connected and how by changing just one of them can also change the others.

“You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.” - Dan Millman

ACT helps an individual to stay focused on the present moment and to allow and accept any feelings or thoughts that occur without judgement. After accepting these thoughts and feelings, one can then begin to commit to making the necessary changes possible in order to have a life that is happy, healthy, and meaningful.

“You don’t have to have a tug-of-war with your feelings. Try letting them be.” - Shamash Alidina

TF-CBT has been shown to be successful in treating children, adolescents, and their families who are experiencing significant behavioral and emotional difficulties related to single, multiple, and complex traumatic life events.

“Trauma creates change you don’t choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose.” - Michelle Rosenthal

MBCT uses CBT along with mindfulness practices such as breathing exercises, stretching, and meditation. It helps individuals understand and control their emotions and thoughts in a more productive manner in order to gain relief from feelings of distress and sadness.

“Minfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.” - Jon Kabat-Zinn

NT allows the client to identify the problem and be able to separate it from themselves by giving it a special and unique name such as shame, guilt, or worry. NT puts attention and focus on the problem itself rather than the individual. This allows the client to see that they are not the problem.

“Loving ourselves through the process of owning our story is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.” - Brene Brown

The Gottman theory assesses your relationship and helps you and your partner address your problems with research-based interventions. The Gottman Method aims to improve verbal communication, increase intimacy, increase respect, increase affection, remove barriers to conflict resolution and create more empathy and compassion within relationships.

“The problem in unhappy relationships is not that people need to be more positive - it’s that they need to notice the positive that’s already there.” - John and Julie Gottman

Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) is a research-proven approach that views disagreements between couples as a result of insecure attachments. EFT allows clients to be able to experience, accept, and transform negative emotions and patterns into positive emotions and bond-enhancing interactions. EFT is used to create a secure emotional bond between partners. When we become aware of our emotions, learn how to regulate them, and transform them into loving interactions, we become more emotionally intelligent, understanding, and secure in our relationships.

“The more securely connected we are to those we love, the more we tune in & respond to [their needs] as if they were our own.” - Dr. Sue Johnson