Psychodynamic therapy is a type of therapy that helps people explore their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to understand how past experiences and unconscious processes influence their present-day actions and emotions.

With the use of psychodynamic therapy, we can work together to uncover underlying patterns and conflicts that may be contributing to difficulties in your relationships, work, or personal well-being. This approach often involves discussing childhood experiences, family dynamics, and recurring themes in your life to gain insight into the current challenges.

The goal of psychodynamic therapy is to increase your self-awareness, promote emotional healing, and develop healthier ways of coping with life's challenges. Through this process, you can gain a deeper understanding of yourself and make positive changes to improve your overall mental health and quality of life.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a type of therapy that focuses on how our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected. It helps people identify and change unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior that may be causing distress or contributing to problems in their lives.

At times we can utilize CBT to work with you to recognize negative thought patterns and beliefs that may be influencing your emotions and behaviors. This can help challenge and reframe unhelpful thoughts, replacing them with more realistic and balanced perspectives. Additionally, CBT often involves learning and practicing new coping skills and behaviors to better manage stress, anxiety, depression, or other mental health issues.

CBT can be incorporated to empower you to develop healthier ways of thinking and responding to life's challenges, ultimately leading to improved emotional well-being and quality of life.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a type of therapy used to help people recover from distressing or traumatic experiences. It involves recalling distressing memories while engaging in bilateral stimulation, such as following the therapist's hand movements with their eyes or listening to alternating sounds or taps. This bilateral stimulation is believed to help process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional intensity.

During EMDR therapy sessions, we help guide you to focus on distressing memories, thoughts, or feelings while simultaneously engaging in bilateral stimulation. This process is thought to help the brain reprocess traumatic memories, allowing them to be stored in a less distressing way.

EMDR can help to process and integrate traumatic memories so that they no longer cause significant distress or interfere with daily life. EMDR therapy can focus on targeting a single traumatic incident or can be woven into your treatment to target more complex traumatic experiences.

In addition to the modalities mentioned, we also utilize mindfulness, solution focused and motational interviewing approaches. Incorporating mindfulness approaches might look like facilitating grounding techniques, breathwork or body scans. Solution focused and motivational interviewing modalities can be helpful when you are feeling particularly stuck in a decision and needing to focus on the practical aspects of it.