Treatment Modalities:
Insight-oriented psychotherapy is a process of discovery of the roots of current struggles, and using that awareness to separate the past from the present, heal old wounds and use resulting clarity to change unhealthy patterns into healthy ones. If you have dandelions in your yard, and you mow them down, they reappear multiplied. If you want to address a dandelion problem, you go to the root. Although a simplistic metaphor, when we long for true resolution, we must look for and treat the cause.
Emotionally Focused psychotherapy assists the individual in achieving greater levels of emotional connectedness, improves communication and understanding, leads to greater forgiveness of self and others and promotes the ability to “let go” of resentments.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is effective with anxiety and some forms of depression. It focuses one’s attention on mindfulness, restructuring negative thinking patterns, stress tolerance, and self- soothing skills.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is most helpful when life is overwhelming and it is too difficult to manage the requirements of life and relationships.
EMDR/Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy is a method extensively researched and found useful for treatment of various forms of trauma. Along with other interventions, EMDR may significantly reduce the effects of anxiety, depression, and panic attacks.
Our brains store fear related memories. Traumatization causes an over excitation of a specific area of the brain. Information is “frozen” in its original anxiety-producing form, which may include the original image, negative self –assessment, and emotion. When this cluster of information is triggered, intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, nightmares, somatic difficulties and other unwanted symptoms may occur, as in PTSD. EMDR is a modality that desensitizes and integrates the frozen information, allowing the traumatic imagery to defuse, the negative emotion to neutralize and cognitive restructuring to occur.
Spiritual Direction is a partnering relationship that offers a listening presence, support and facilitation of spiritual awareness and exploration of God as present, compassionate, forgiving and generous. Everyone’s faith persuasion is accepted and respected.
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