Psychotherapy

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy – Focuses on increasing a patient’s awareness of unconscious thoughts and reactions, understanding these patterns, developing new insights into his or her feelings and motivations, and resolving conflicts to live a more productive and fulfilling life.

Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) – Focuses on the patient’s current life and relationships within his or her family, social, school and work environments. Patients learn to evaluate the way they interact with others and to develop coping strategies for dealing with relationships and communication problems.

Cognitive Therapies – Focuses on identifying and correcting distorted thinking patterns and perceptions that can lead to feelings and behaviors that can be troublesome or self-defeating. Therapy helps to replace these maladaptive thoughts with a more balanced view to lead to a more fulfilling and productive life.

Behavioral Therapies – Focuses on changing unwanted or unhealthy behaviors through education and action, reinforcement, and desensitization.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) –  Focuses on examining the relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviors. CBT is a short term, goal oriented psychotherapy that combines techniques of both cognitive and behavioral therapy to identify unhealthy, negative beliefs and behaviors in order to replace them with more balanced ones.

Mindfulness Based Therapies – Focuses on the present moment, helping people to learn how to observe and describe their emotions, and thus achieve better control and insight into their emotions and behaviors. Mindfulness is defined as “paying attention to one’s experience on purpose, in the present moment, in a non-judgmental manner.” Mindfulness practice is a component of many different treatment strategies.

Biofeedback – Focuses on improving awareness and control of stress levels. A biofeedback machine, a device that digitally measures a person’s stress level, is used to help improve self-regulation. A variety of skills are employed in conjunction with biofeedback as a way to reduce stress, learn relaxation and improve health.

Stress Management Skills – Focuses on learning relaxation/stress reduction techniques through biofeedback, meditation, deep breathing, muscle relaxation and various coping strategies in order to better manage one’s emotional states and behaviors.

Family and Couples Therapy – Focuses on helping members better understand maladaptive patterns occurring within the family or couple that are contributing to relational discord. This includes examining communication styles, setting limits and boundaries, emotional regulation, and other contributing factors.