Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps you
relate differently to difficult thoughts and feelings, rather than trying to fight or avoid them. You learn skills to notice your inner experiences with more openness, clarify what truly matters to you, and take small, meaningful steps toward a life that aligns with your values—even when challenges are present.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) focuses on understanding how behavior is shaped by the environment and teaching new skills in a structured, supportive way. Often used with children and individuals on the autism spectrum, ABA breaks goals into manageable steps and reinforces positive behaviors to support learning, independence, and daily functioning.
Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships and bonds— especially with caregiversnshape the way you connect with others now. This approach helps strengthen emotional security, build trust, and repair relationship patterns, often supporting children, teens, and families in feeling more connected, safe, and understood.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a structured,
practical approach that explores how your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected. You learn to identify unhelpful thinking patterns, challenge them, and develop more balanced ways of seeing situations. CBT often includes concrete tools and exercises to manage anxiety, depression, and stress in everyday life.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) combines
acceptance and change. It focuses on building skills in four main areas: mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT can be especially helpful for people who experience intense emotions, relationship difficulties, or impulsive behaviors and want tools to feel more stable and in control.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is often used with
couples and families to repair and deepen emotional bonds. It helps you understand patterns of disconnection, express vulnerable feelings more safely, and respond to each other in new, more supportive ways. The goal is to create stronger, more secure relationships.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is a specialized
form of therapy, often used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and certain anxiety disorders. With guidance and support, you gradually face the situations or thoughts that trigger anxiety while practicing not engaging in the usual compulsive or avoidance behaviors. Over time, this can reduce fear and increase a sense of control.
Family and marital therapy focus on the relationships and communication patterns within couples and families. Rather than viewing one person as “the problem,” this
approach looks at how everyone affects and is affected by one another. The goal is to improve understanding, strengthen connection, and create healthier ways of relating and solving problems together.
Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) focuses on how your relationships and social roles affect your mood and overall mental health. It helps you explore life transitions, role changes,ngrief, and conflicts with others. By improving communication and relationship skills, IPT aims to reduce symptoms of depression and distress and enhance support in your daily life.
Mindfulness-based approaches teach you to pay attention to the present moment with curiosity and without judgment. You learn to notice thoughts, emotions, and body sensations as they come and go, rather than getting pulled into them. This can reduce rumination, stress, and emotional reactivity, and support a calmer, more grounded way of responding to life.
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative, non-judgmental approach that helps you explore your own reasons for change. Instead of telling you what to do, your therapist helps you clarify your goals, resolve mixed feelings, and build motivation and confidence to take steps toward the changes that matter most to you (such as habits, health, or substance use).
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is a structured
approach that involves coaching parents in real time as they interact with their child. The therapist provides guidance to help strengthen the parent–child relationship, improve behavior, and increase positive communication. PCIT is often used with younger children who are experiencing behavioral or emotional challenges.
Person-centered therapy is based on the belief that you are the expert on your own experience. The therapist offers a non-judgmental, empathic, and genuine environment where you can explore your thoughts and feelings openly. With this kind of support, many people find it easier to gain insight, self-acceptance, and a clearer sense of who they are and what they want.
Play therapy uses play—the natural language of children—to help them express feelings, process experiences, and learn coping skills. Through games, toys, art, and storytelling, the therapist helps children work through worries, behavior challenges, and difficult events in a way that feels safe and age-appropriate.
Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapies explore how past experiences, unconscious patterns, and early relationships may be shaping your current thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. By gaining insight into these deeper patterns, you can understand yourself more fully, shift long-standing dynamics, and experience more freedom in how you relate to yourself and others.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a type of
CBT that focuses on how deeply held beliefs influence emotions and behavior. It helps you identify rigid or unhelpful beliefs (such as “I must never fail” or “I have to be liked by everyone”), challenge them, and replace them with more flexible, realistic perspectives—leading to healthier emotional responses.
Relational therapy emphasizes the importance of relationships—both in your life and in the therapy room. It looks at how your patterns of relating developed over time and how they show up now. Through a safe, authentic therapeutic relationship, you can experiment with new ways of connecting, setting boundaries, and being yourself with others.
Solution-Focused Therapy centers on your strengths and what’s already working, rather than spending most of the time on problems. Together with your therapist, you define clear goals and identify small, practical steps toward change. This approach is often brief and future-oriented, helping you move toward improvements in a focused, efficient way.
Social skills training focuses on helping children and teens feel more confident and comfortable in social situations. In this approach, we work on specific, practical skills such as starting and maintaining conversations, reading social cues, taking turns, joining groups, managing conflict, handling teasing or bullying, and building and keeping friendships. Sessions are structured, active, and skills-based, often using role‑plays, modeling, and real‑life practice. The goal is to help kids and teens develop the tools they need to connect with others more easily and feel more at ease in school, activities, and everyday social settings.
A strengths-based approach highlights your existing abilities, resources, and resilience. Rather than defining you by your struggles, this perspective helps you see and build on what you already do well. The goal is to empower you to use your strengths to cope with challenges and create meaningful change.
Trauma-focused therapies are specifically designed to help people process and heal from difficult or overwhelming experiences. This approach is sensitive to how trauma affects the brain, body, and emotions. Therapists work at a pace that feels safe, helping you make sense of what happened, reduce distressing symptoms, and regain a sense of safety and control.