My Therapeutic Approaches

Psychodynamic Therapy

Psychodynamic therapy looks to your past to understand your present

Psychodynamic therapy is open-ended, aiming to heighten self-awareness and self-empowerment

Psychodynamic therapy is often relatively long-term, lasting several months or years

Psychodynamic therapy is used in the treatment of mental health conditions & challenges, including Depression, Trauma, PTSD, Relationship issues, and adjustment challenges.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

CBT focuses on finding practical, skills-based solutions to present-day problem

CBT tends to be structured and often includes homework assignments

CBT is often a short-term treatment style, lasting 2-3months

CBT is often used in the treatment of many mental health conditions, which include Anxiety disorders, Eating disorders, and Insomnia.

Strength-based Therapy

Strength-based therapy is a type of positive psychotherapy and counseling that focuses on your internal strengths and resourcefulness, rather than on your weaknesses, failures, and shortcomings.

The tenet is that this focus sets up a positive mindset that helps you build on your best qualities, find your strengths, improve resilience, and change your worldview to one that is more positive.

The main reason to discuss a client’s problems is to discover the inner strengths that clients can tap into to build solutions.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a humanistic, evidence-based approach to psychotherapy, drawing primarily from attachment theory to facilitate the creation of a secure, vibrant connection with self and others.

Rooted in the science of emotions and attachment, EFT helps clients identify and transform the negative processing and interaction patterns that create distress.

It’s effective in treating individuals (EFIT), couples (EFCT), and families (EFFT), addressing a wide range of issues from marital distress to individual anxiety and trauma.

Couples Counseling - The Gottman Method

The Gottman Method for Healthy Relationships is a form of couples-based therapy. One of the major tenets of the Gottman Method is that couples require five times more positive interactions than negative ones, as negative emotions, like defensiveness and contempt, hurt a relationship more than positive ones heal.

As a result, the therapy focuses on developing the skills and understanding necessary for partners to maintain fondness and admiration, turn toward each other to get their needs met, and manage conflict. It also focuses on how couples can react and repair relations when they do hurt each other.

The method can be applied to many relationship problems but may be particularly useful for couples who are: Stuck in chronic conflict, Coping with infidelity, Struggling with communication, In a stagnant relationship or emotionally distanced, Facing difficulties over specific issues, such as money, parenting, or sex.

All Gottman Method therapy is based on a couple’s patterns of interacting, and partners learn and implement relationship-building and problem-solving skills together.