Treatment Methods
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an information processing therapy that helps clients cope with trauma, addictions, and phobias. The client focuses on a specific thought, image, emotion, or sensation while simultaneously watching the therapists finger (or an alternative bilateral stimulation of both hemispheres of the brain through tapping and/or audio methods). Then the client is asked to think of new thoughts, while again simultaneously focusing on the external stimulus. EMDR loosens one's traumatic memories and allows them to be reprocessed with positive ones.
Hypnotherapy uses exercises that relax participants, bringing them to an altered state of consciousness. This process focuses on mastering self-awareness. Through trance-like analysis, hypnosis decreases blood pressure and heart rate, putting one's physical body at ease. Working with memories, hypnotherapy helps you to reframe, relax, absorb, dissociate, respond, and reflect. The process reconstructs healthier associations with your past events. Dealing with a wide range of conditions, such as anxiety and depression, you become responsive to new solutions that can lead to personal growth and healing.
Through an expanded state of conciousness and guided by the wisdom of the heart, this method gently and safely guides clients to discover past connections to current issues, patterns, and blocks, while enabling them to release repressed emotions, change unhealthy beliefs, and make new, healthier life decisions.
Voice Dialogue is a technique that allows us to dialogue with different aspects of our personality and develop awareness of these different facets. It enables you to gain a better understanding of who you are, and empowers you to make more conscious decisions, rather than acting out of habit.
Sensorimotor psychotherapy is a powerful, effective method for working with physical sensations to help people beyond their trauma.
The client-centered method is based on the empowering idea that the client holds the answers to her problems — not the therapist. The client feels heard and understood so she can tap into her natural ability to grow and heal. Client-centered therapy helps the client live in the moment and focus on personality change, rather than on the origin of her personality structure.
Existential psychotherapy is based on the philosophical belief that human beings are alone in the world, and that this aloneness can only be overcome by creating one's own meaning, and exercising one's freedom to choose. The existential therapist encourages clients to face life's anxieties head on and to start making his own decisions. The therapist will emphasize that along with having the freedom to carve out meaning comes the need to take full responsibility for the consequences of one's decisions. Therapy sessions focus on the client's present and future rather than his past.
Psychodynamic therapy, also known as insight-oriented therapy, believes that bringing the unconscious into conscious awareness promotes insight and resolves conflict.
The humanistic method takes a positive view of human nature and emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual. This tradition explores the nature of creativity, love, and self-actualization, and helps clients realize their potential through change and self-directed growth.
Transpersonal therapy emphasizes the transcendent states in which people experience a deeper sense of who they are, and cultivate a greater sense of connectedness with others, with nature, and with a higher spirit.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) stresses the role of thinking in how we feel and what we do. It is based on the belief that thoughts, rather than people or events, cause our negative feelings. The therapist helps the client in identifying, testing the reality of, and correcting dysfunctional beliefs underlying his or her thinking. The therapist then helps the client modify those thoughts and the behaviors that flow from them. CBT is a structured collaboration between therapist and client and often calls for homework assignments. CBT has been clinically proven to help clients in a relatively short amount of time with a wide range of disorders, including depression and anxiety.
