Therapeutic Modalities psychologist

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CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) focuses on how a person’s thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes affect their feelings and behaviors. Unhelpful thinking patterns can lead to faulty thought processes, psychological issues, mental and emotional stress. In the session we can generate insights into unhealthy patterns, increase awareness of the impact, and explore the meanings we attribute to events. CBT can have a positive impact on how people feel and act and provide more adaptive coping strategies for dealing with challenging situations.  

Emotions are key to identity, a guide to personal choice, and decision making. 

The therapist's role is to support the client collaboratively in interpreting emotional experiences. Together we can increase understanding about how emotions are produced, how they impact you physiologically, influence thinking and can impact decision making.  We can work to identify the source of unhelpful emotions and determine alternate ways to incorporate more adaptive functioning. 

Attachment Theory is based upon 3 principles: 

1. Bonding is an intrinsic human need. 

2. Regulation of emotion and fear to enhance vitality. 

3. Promoting adaptiveness, and growth. 

Understanding early attachment on impact of current level of functioning and help generate insights, awareness, understanding, and focus for therapeutic interactions. 

 Focuses on internal strengths and drives, bringing into client's awareness current adaptive ways of functioning, resiliency factors, building on strengths and individual preferences, goals,and expectations. The therapist  utilizes the relationship of safety, trust, and collaboration to follow the  client's lead towards personal growth and self-actualization.

Emphasizes the importance of human and individual choices, decisions, and  responses to life events. This model of therapy allows clients to explore their  lived experiences honestly, openly and comprehensively interpreting meaning and  generating understanding.

This Psychologist Approach addresses depression and experiences in relationships with others to better understand and improve thoughts about oneself, interpretation of experiences, and integration of experiences. The focus tends to be focused on present thinking, behavior, and communication rather than on the past and is oriented towards solving problems. 

Works on emotional regulation and tapping into physical cues to stressful events  and communication between the mind, body, and feelings. Increased Bodily  awareness may improve a person's ability to respond to a perceived stressor or  relationship, explore reactions, and modify behavior or body language to  positively impact coping. 

 Is a strengths based framework rooted in understanding and responding to the  impact of trauma. It emphasizes psychological and emotional safety, with  emphasis on the importance for individuals to rebuild a sense of control and  empowerment.  Together we will  explore the effect of the trauma events and your experiences impeded upon on  your current level of functioning. In this approach we explore realizations  about trauma and it's long term impact, how to recognize signs and understand  triggers, having a more adaptive system for responding to trauma, and ability to  work through and resist re-traumatization. 

As a feminist theorist I am not just concerned with the equality of women but  also the men and children with which they are inextricably linked. It operates  on the  feminist  values, which include  cooperation, respect, caring, nurturance, interconnection, justice, equity,  honesty, sensitivity, perceptiveness, intuition, altruism, fair- ness, morality,  and commitment. We work to increased understanding of how systems create gender  stereotypical norms, suppression, and/or oppression, which can impact roles,  relationships and generate feelings of  unfulfillment, unease, or malaise are central to this theoretical approach. I  utilize these techniques to help all genders and groups where traditional values  and belief systems may have negatively impacted. 

Prolonged Exposure (PE) is a form of psychotherapy for PTSD. This treatment helps you process or work through the traumatic experience. PE teaches you not to be afraid of the memory and triggers by working through reactivity and facing your fears. This can decrease your PTSD symptoms and help you to regain control of your life.