TYPES OF THERAPY

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a mindfulness-based approach that helps you embrace your thoughts and feelings rather than fighting or feeling guilty for them. By focusing on mindfulness and value-based living, ACT can help you accept what is out of your control and commit to actions that will enrich your life, promoting psychological flexibility and emotional well-being.

Attachment Focused Therapy is a relationship-based approach that helps you understand and heal attachment wounds from your past. By exploring early relationships and their impact on your current emotional patterns, this therapy fosters secure attachments, promotes emotional resilience, and enhances your ability to form healthy, fulfilling relationships.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) provides practical tools and strategies to help you change your negative thought patterns and maladaptive behaviors, ultimately leading to improved emotional well-being and enhanced coping skills. CBT is the gold standard of evidence-based treatment for anxiety and depression.

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Depth Therapy, commonly known as Depth Psychology, involves exploring the unconscious mind in order to uncover unresolved issues, encouraging healing and personal development through techniques like dream analysis and symbol interpretation. Stemming from the pioneering work of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, depth therapy can help you process deeply stored emotions and experiences in order to integrate your past, rather than being ruled by it.

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a structured psychotherapy that can help you with emotional regulation challenges and interpersonal struggles. Through skills training in individual therapy, DBT teaches practical techniques to manage intense emotions and improve the quality of your relationships.

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Existential Therapy is a philosophical approach that helps you explore the fundamental questions of existence, such as meaning, purpose, freedom, and responsibility. By working with our holistic therapists to confront existential anxieties and reflect on your values and beliefs, this therapy promotes self-awareness, personal growth, and a more authentic and fulfilling life.

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Gottman Therapy is a research-based approach specifically designed for couples to improve relationship dynamics and foster deeper emotional connections. By focusing on communication, conflict resolution, and emotional intimacy, this therapy helps partners strengthen their bond, rebuild trust, and create lasting, healthy relationships.

Hakomi Therapy is a mindfulness-based, body-centered (somatic) approach that helps you uncover and heal unconscious patterns and beliefs. By integrating mindfulness and somatic techniques, this therapy allows you to explore the mind-body connection, promote self-awareness, and facilitate deep emotional and physical healing. Techniques in Hakomi Therapy include guided mindfulness exercises, body awareness practices, and the use of gentle touch to access and transform deeply held emotional states. This approach enables you to process and release stored emotions and experiences in a safe and supportive environment.

Holistic therapy is an integrative approach to therapy that combines traditional evidence-based therapy modalities with complementary and alternative healing modalities. A holistic approach to mental health helps you heal by honoring and including the mind, body, heart and spirit on your healing journey.

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Humanistic Therapy is an approach that emphasizes your inherent potential for self-growth and self-actualization. By offering a non-judgmental, empathetic, and supportive environment, this therapy helps you explore your feelings, develop self-awareness, and create an authentic and fulfilling life. Techniques in Humanistic Therapy often include client-centered therapy, Gestalt therapy, and existential therapy, which focus on your unique experiences and perspectives.

Integrative Psychotherapy is a flexible and comprehensive approach that combines techniques from various therapeutic modalities to suit your unique needs. This therapy can incorporate methods from cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), psychodynamic therapy, mindfulness practices, and somatic therapies. By addressing the mind, body, and spirit, Integrative Psychotherapy promotes holistic healing and personal growth. It is particularly effective in helping you achieve greater emotional, psychological, and relational well-being.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is a unique approach that views the mind as composed of various parts, each with its own characteristics and roles. In IFS therapy, you’ll learn to identify and understand these parts of yourself, resulting in more peace, balance, and ultimately deep healing.

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Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) is a unique and innovative approach to healing that combines the use of ketamine with psychotherapy. This type of therapy has been shown to be effective in treating various mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and addiction. Ketamine therapy can help you access suppressed emotions and memories, supporting you in processing deeply held trauma and pain from your past. This form of therapy is particularly helpful for those who have not seen progress with traditional therapy methods or have treatment-resistant mental health conditions like depression. Please note that we partner with a company called Journey Clinical for KAP, and they provide the medical care, assessment and prescription of ketamine. Our center does not prescribe or administer ketamine.

In mindfulness-based therapy, you'll learn to bring awareness and curiosity to the present moment and bring self-compassion to whatever challenges you are currently struggling with. This simple but powerful approach will help you rewire unhelpful thoughts, soothe challenging emotions, and help you align your mind, body, heart and spirit.

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Narrative Therapy is a collaborative and empowering approach to personal development that helps you reframe and rewrite the stories you tell about your life. By separating yourself from your problems and exploring your experiences from new perspectives, this therapy can help you rewrite past pain into an empowering narrative. Narrative Therapy involves techniques such as externalization, where you view your issues as separate from yourself, and re-authoring, where you actively reshape your personal story. This approach can help with a variety of mental health concerns, and promotes self-awareness, personal growth, and resilience, helping you recognize your strengths and possibilities for change.

Polyvagal Therapy is a therapeutic approach that weaves together neuroscience and psychology to help you understand and regulate your nervous system. At the root of this work is understanding and working with the Vagus nerve to help you release stress and trauma that is stored in the body and nervous system, resulting in more freedom, peace and ease in your life, and in your relationships.

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Psychedelic Integration Therapy can help you prepare for personal psychedelic journeys to optimize your healing and transformation, as well as integrate and metabolize the experience. Psychedelic integration work can help you integrate the often profound levels of consciousness that you access during your journey, and integrate the wisdom and insights into your daily life. Please note that The Holistic Counseling Center does not provide, endorse or condone the use of illegal activity or substances.

Psychodynamic therapy is foundational to traditional talk therapy, and is focused on how your past is impacting your present. It addresses all aspects of your mental health, from your relationship satisfaction, to your self-esteem, life purpose and ways you might be self-sabotaging. Its goal is to help you access and uncover your unconscious patterns and childhood programming to help you understand how your past is impacting you , and eventually be able to change, grow and heal. By bringing the unconscious past into the conscious present, you can understand the root cause of mental health challenges like anxiety, depression, and trauma, and chart a path for healing.

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Relational Therapy focuses on the importance of relationships in shaping your emotional and psychological well-being. By exploring your interpersonal dynamics and relational patterns with a therapist, this therapy can help you understand how your relationships influence your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Techniques used in Relational Therapy include reflective dialogue, role-playing, and real-time feedback to improve communication and emotional intimacy.

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Solution-Focused Therapy is a goal-oriented approach that helps you identify and build on your existing strengths and resources to create positive change in your life. By focusing on solutions and actionable actions you can take, this therapy encourages you to envision your desired future and develop practical steps to achieve your goals. Techniques in Solution-Focused Therapy include the Miracle Question, scaling questions, and identifying past successes to create actionable strategies.

Somatic Therapy is a body-based therapeutic modality that offers practical tools that work with the mind-body system to address a variety of mental health concerns, chronic nervous system dysregulation and the feeling of being stuck in survival mode. s We include the body and the nervous system in therapy in order to heal thoughts, emotions, memories and trauma that live in the body. Somatic Therapy honors the mind-body-spirit connection and offers increased self-awareness, self-compassion and profound healing.

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Spiritual Therapy, also known as Transpersonal Therapy or Spirituality Therapy, is a therapeutic approach that considers the spiritual aspects of being human when treating mental health symptoms and diagnoses. It integrates traditional talk therapy with metaphysical spiritual practices to help you supercharge your healing and growth.. This approach acknowledges that you may seek meaning, purpose, and connection beyond the material realm, and it provides a framework for exploring and nurturing these aspects of your human experience. The goal of spiritual therapy is to help you connect with your highest self and Source to support you on your healing journey.

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Transpersonal Therapy is a holistic approach that integrates spiritual and transcendent aspects of the human experience into the therapeutic process. By exploring expanded states of consciousness, learning to access your intuition and inner wisdom, and exploring your relationship to the universe/source/spirit/God, this therapy helps you heal and transform your life on a deep level.

Trauma-Informed Therapy is an approach that recognizes the impact of trauma on your mental, emotional, and physical well-being. By creating a safe and supportive environment, this therapy helps you process and heal from traumatic experiences. Techniques in Trauma-Informed Therapy include grounding exercises, somatic practices, and cognitive-behavioral strategies to help you regain a sense of safety and control. This therapy is particularly effective for addressing issues such as PTSD, anxiety, depression, and complex trauma (C-PTSD), promoting resilience and recovery through a compassionate and understanding lens.