Individual Therapy

Individual therapy is an important and transformative process that focuses on developing deeper insight and heightened awareness into one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In this therapeutic setting, you are provided with a safe, supportive, and compassionate environment where we can thoughtfully explore your internal world and diverse life experiences and address any specific issues that are causing emotional distress. At the beginning of our therapeutic relationship, we will collaboratively establish clear goals regarding what you hope to accomplish during our time together in therapy, and subsequently work to create a comprehensive plan on how to effectively achieve those goals. Throughout this process, we will validate and genuinely support your unique life experiences, while also actively working to overcome the barriers that interfere with your sense of balance and overall well-being. Additionally, therapy can serve as a valuable process that increases self-actualization and fosters a profound sense of meaning and purpose in your life.

Couples Therapy

Couples therapy differs from individual therapy in the sense that the relationship is the actual “client.” Work is done to improve communication patterns by helping each partner learn to listen and attentively respond to their partner. We will help open up lines of communication that have been closed by past wounds or emotional distance in the relationship. If arguments are frequent or explosive, we will work to decrease the intensity of conflict to promote healthy communication. Work may also focus on increasing emotional and physical warmth in the relationship. Couples therapy is also useful as a preventative measure to increase the loving bond between partners and to resolve minor issues before they become more problematic. We offer pre-marital counseling for couples looking to start their marriage on the right track.

Family Therapy

Family relationships are so important in our lives, yet can also be our most complicated relationships. If your family is experiencing conflict, this can lead to emotional distress in all the family members. In order to alleviate the distress, family therapy that assists in changing the family dynamics is key. By providing a compassionate, nonjudgmental environment, communication patterns are improved, healthy boundaries are established, and the family members are able to strengthen feelings of closeness and connection.

Private Marriage Intensive

Intensives offer one of the most impactful pathways toward healing and reconnection in marriage. Many couples entering a Marriage Intensive carry emotional pain, feelings of discouragement, and diminished hope for the future. These intensives are intentionally structured to support couples during critical times, aiming to rebuild trust and rekindle love.

In a secure, accepting, and nurturing environment, couples begin the essential work of identifying the underlying causes of their marital struggles. A thorough assessment of relational dynamics and issues allows for the development of a tailored treatment plan that addresses each partner's individual needs as well as those of the couple.

Participants will acquire skills to enhance their connection, improve communication through empathy and active listening, and appreciate their unique differences. The program focuses on conflict resolution, restoring trust, altering negative dynamics, minimizing blame, and navigating through impasses effectively.

Intensive Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy® (PACT) 

PACT draws on exciting, cutting-edge research in three areas. The first is neuroscience, the study of the human brain. Understanding how the brain works provides a physiological basis for understanding how people act and react within relationships. In a nutshell, some areas of your brain are wired to reduce threat and danger and seek security, while others are geared to establish mutuality and loving connection. The third area is the biology of human arousal—meaning the moment-to-moment ability to manage your energy, alertness, and readiness to engage. 

Your experience during a PACT session may differ somewhat from what you might expect in other forms of couple therapy. For example 

• Your therapist will focus on moment-to-moment shifts in your face, body, and voice, and ask you to pay close attention to these in your partner. 

• Your therapist will create experiences similar to those troubling your relationship and help you work through them in real time during the session. 

PACT tends to require fewer sessions than other forms of couple therapy. PACT sessions often exceed the typical 50-minute hour and may last 3 hours or more 

HOW DOES PACT HELP? 

It isn’t necessary to understand the scientific basis of PACT to realize its benefits. Your therapist has extensive training in PACT principles and techniques, and will guide you to overcome challenges you face as a couple. 

Through working with a PACT therapist, you and your partner will discover how to 

• Stay connected 

• Help each other feel safe and secure 

• Manage each other’s emotional highs and lows 

• Fight well 

• Rekindle your love at any time 

• Minimize each other’s stress and optimize each other’s health 

EMDR:

EMDR is an evidence-based psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In addition, successful outcomes are well-documented in the literature for EMDR treatment of other psychiatric disorders, mental health problems, and somatic symptoms. The model on which EMDR is based, Adaptive Information Processing (AIP), posits that much of psychopathology is due to the maladaptive encoding of and/or incomplete processing of traumatic or disturbing adverse life experiences. This impairs the client’s ability to integrate these experiences in an adaptive manner. The eight-phase, three-pronged process of EMDR facilitates the resumption of normal information processing and integration.