Our Approach
We strive to be flexible and innovative while utilizing research-based models to meet your individual needs. We use an open-ended format and let your overall presentation and flow guide the session. We attempt to follow your need and gently guide you as needed. Modeling and storytelling are integrated parts of our style, and we may share our own or others' stories to help create deeper understanding. Below are some of the main models we may utilize with this approach:
Integrative or Holistic Therapy
This involves blending different elements of a wide range of therapeutic models to meet your needs.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy
This involves focusing on your thoughts and belief system to address your emotions and behaviors with your environment.
Solution Focused Brief-Therapy
This helps you develop realistic solutions quickly as related to your everyday functioning. This approach is goal-oriented and task-oriented, focusing on helping you thrive quickly, without needing to analyze the deeper mental health issues.
Dialectic Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Training
This helps you develop skills to regulate intense emotions, reduce self-harm behaviors, manage stress, and improve interpersonal relationships.
Psychodynamics/Psychoanalytic
This helps you understand the connections between your past childhood experiences and your present thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, dealing with both the conscious and unconscious.
Gottman Method
This involves utilizing research-based models proven to help couples learn new skills, practice conflict management, build friendship, and create a shared mission or purpose.
Prepare/Enrich
This is a premarital and marital assessment tool that utilize evidenced based skills to help couples gain insight into their relationships and foster healthy communications and relationships.
Relationship Coaching/Conscious Dating®
This is an approach to dating and relationship that fosters mindfulness, intentionality and awareness. This approach is primarily for dating individuals and also used with dating couples.
Strategic-Structural Family Therapy
This involves identifying symptoms and unhealthy patterns within the family and initiating a plan to address the problems.
Play and Art Therapy
This involves allowing children and adults alike to engage in self-discovery through play and art.
Existential Therapy and Narrative
This involves defining your story with a discussion focused on meaning and purpose.
Christian Counseling
This involves utilizing the Judeo-Christian scriptures and principles to address the whole person (body, soul, and spirit) through several previously listed approaches.
Faith-Based and Spiritually Informed Counseling
This involves incorporating your faith, religion, or lack of spiritual beliefs into the previously listed approaches.
Treatment Track Options
We offer two distinct pathways tailored to your specific needs.
Medical Model Track
This track is covered by most insurance plans so long as you meet medical necessity, which includes a mental health diagnosis. Under this track, we design a family therapy plan around the family member with a mental health diagnosis. Couple counseling is not covered under this plan.
Personal Growth and Development Track
This track is self-pay only. Under this track, the model is flexible and designed to address any life issues causing distress. A full assessment will take place, and we will formulate a treatment plan. The only requirements for service are the client's willingness and ability to pay.