CBT focuses on challenging and changing unhelpful or patterns that lead to symptoms of anxiety and depression. Together we will notice and explore, without judgment, dysfunctional thoughts, beliefs, and coping strategies. We will take steps to devise healthier, more psychologically flexible patterns of approaching life at a pace that works for you.
Mindfulness helps you control your relationship to stress by simply sitting with yourself. Mindfulness practice is learning to pay attention to the present moment without judgement or reaction. When our minds wander, they usually ruminate on the past or the future. Often times, this creates worry and discomfort. Learning to pay attention to the present helps us respond to discomfort rather than react to it.
Strengths-based therapy focuses on your attributes, goals, interests, desires, talents, knowledge, insight, and resiliency. This approach emphasizes your self-determination and resourcefulness in the face of adversity. With your fortitude and capabilities in mind, we will take steps to actualize your true potential.
DBT helps us develop four sets of behavioral skills: mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and emotion regulation. I borrow techniques from this therapeutic approach to help you find peace and balance in your life.
Using family systems theory, we will work together to uncover the specific roles and rules learned and reinforced in your family unit. We investigate how these expectations and values influence the interpersonal dynamics within your family and how these concepts affect your relationships with friends, significant others, and peers.
Motivational interviewing is a short-term counseling method used to help you gain motivation to change unhelpful behaviors and increase self-esteem. This approach is practical and especially sensitive to how difficult it is to make life changes.