EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACHES

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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy

Utilizes bilateral stimulation to facilitate the accessing and reprocessing of traumatic memories and other adverse life experiences to bring these to an adaptive resolution.

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) - Informed 

Adaptive coping skills to increase mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation.

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Internal Family Systems (IFS) parts work

Helps people access and integrate their protective and wounded inner parts, fostering greater inner harmony and outer connectedness. 

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Expressive Arts Therapies 

Combines psychology and the creative process to promote emotional growth and integration. I invite the use of music, visual art, poetry, and movement as my office space permits, and via telehealth.

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Therapeutic Breathwork and Somatic Practices

Invites a mind-body connection into the therapeutic process. Modifying breathing alters communication sent from the respiratory system, rapidly influencing brain regions that regulate behavior, thought and emotion.

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Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)

Focuses on changing automatic negative thoughts that can contribute to and worsen emotional difficulties.

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Applied Positive Psychology

Focuses on the strengths that enable humans and organizations to flourish by utilizing the PERMA model to understand well-being: Positive emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment.

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The counseling theories and approaches that inform my work include: Trauma-focused therapy, Neurodivergence-affirming, Identity-affirming,

Roger’s Person-Centered Theory, Porges' Polyvagal Theory, Herman’s Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma Recovery, Bowlby and Ainsworth’s Attachment Theory,  Multicultural Counseling, Minuchin’s Structural Family Therapy approach, and Feminist Theory of Therapy.​​