Integrative Psychotherapy
Our therapists provide comprehensive care that integrates a number of highly effective evidence-based treatments including those described below.
Our therapeutic approach is informed by the science of human change and always grounded in genuine compassion. Our therapists are firmly committed to helping you achieve the meaningful change that you seek, and always in the context of an authentically warm and caring therapeutic relationship.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a highly effective evidence-based therapeutic approach used to address difficulties including panic, anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. In ACT, clients come to achieve increased levels of psychological flexibility (a mindfulness-based disposition of openess toward themselves and others), enabling them address major life questions through the use of paradox and metaphor. These process enable individuals to identify and commit to values-based actions, setting the stage for comprehensive emotional and interpersonal change.
ACT is specifically geared toward liberating clients from the exhausting inner struggles that people tend to encounter when trying to find relief from long-standing anxiety, fear, and sadness. ACT helps replace these inner struggles with a new agenda, grounded in the client’s deeply held personal values, which leads to concrete steps (and sometimes leaps) in valued life directions.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) is an evidence-based treatment geared toward helping individuals better understand the relational contexts that cause or contribute to difficulties such as depressed mood, anxiety, and problems associated with past traumas. While most of us already have a general understanding of the impacts that our relationships have on our lives, working with a trained therapist can help nearly anyone develop a much more comprehensive understanding of these factors.
Most importantly, IPT helps individuals develop insights that are really actionable. When things begin to “click” it can lead to making the types of pivots that can change an individuals trajectory, leading to more valued and satisfying life directions.
Emotionally Focused Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapies
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a well-known humanistic approach to psychotherapy that was developed in tandem with the science of adult attachment, the most widely accepted developmental theory of personality and intimate relationships. This science has expanded our understanding of individual difficulties and health as well as the nature of love relationships and family bonds. Attachment views human beings as innately relational, social, and wired for intimate bonding with others. The EFT model prioritizes emotion and emotional regulation as key organizing agents in individual experience and in key relationship interactions.
EFT is best known as a tested and proven couples intervention, but it is also used to address individual depression, anxiety and post traumatic stress and to repair family bonds. This model operationalizes the principles of attachment-science using humanistic-experiential and relational systems approaches to focus on and to change core organizing factors in both the self and in key relationships.
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