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Offering Integrative Clinical Services

Specializing in Trauma & DV/Narcissistic Abuse Recovery, Grief Healing,
The Path to Self-Love, & Living as an HSP (highly sensitive person/empath/intuitiv) 

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Adolescents | Adults | First Responders | Helping Providers
Mental Health & Co-Occurring


 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Focuses on developing coping skills that target solving current problems and changing unhelpful patterns in cognitions, behaviors, and emotional turmoil. "Our thoughts shape our lives."​
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Focus is placed on teaching methods to evaluate emotions and reduce maladaptive behaviors. The skills covered are interpersonal communication, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and mindfulness.
Motivational Interviewing (MI): Focuses on exploring and resolving ambivalence and centers on motivational processes within the individual to facilitate change. Supports change that is congruent with the unique individual.
Transpersonal Therapy: Focus is placed on the spiritual and adds to the deeper and higher aspects of human experience transcending the ordinary and the average.​
Existential-Narrative Therapy: Involves listening to the telling/retelling of unique personal stories and the challenges and problems encountered in life to shape new meanings and heal.​ "You are not what happened to you."
​Person-Centered Therapy: Focuses on offering a safe space to cultivate growth, healing, and wellness. Incorporates establishing a therapeutic alliance that focuses on individual strengths and abilities to self-actualize.
Insight-Oriented Therapy: Focuses on gaining an understanding of how personal beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and experiences impact the present state of mind.
Gestalt Therapy: Takes into account the whole person. Focuses on the integration of the parts of the whole, getting in touch with oneself to become more self-aware. "We are more than the sum of our parts."

​*Internal Family Systems (IFS): See below for more information 
*Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART): See below for more information
 

​Creative Art Therapies (CAT)​: There are many barriers to vocal expression. Alternative interventions are utilized through creative expressive processes to bridge the gap of solely traditional talk therapy initiatives.
Attachment-Based Therapy: Focus is placed on developing or rebuilding trust and centers on expressing emotions, forming meaningful relationships, and gaining a sense of security. “Taking back power.”
​Emotionally Focused Therapy: Focuses on identifying negative interaction patterns that contribute to conflict, identifying negative emotions related to attachment issues, and reframing these issues.
Relational Therapy: Explores relationship patterns to gently uncover and understand them so that healing and shifting can take place, healthier forms of interaction take place, and a new deeper truer self emerges. 
Grief Therapy: Focus is placed on processing the loss experience and impact, mourning the loved one's absence, and gaining skills to cope with and respond to the overwhelming waves of grief. 

​Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT): Focus is placed on correcting energy disruptions in the body through a sequence of tapping on meridian points combined with specific wordings. 
Compassion-Focused Therapy: Focus is placed on increased self-compassion and other compassion to heal internal shame and self-criticism. Helps to restore ideas of safety and reassurance. 
Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Involves moment-by-moment awareness of thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and the surrounding environment and living with more intention. 
​Trauma-Informed Approach: An awareness and understanding of the physical, social, and emotional impact of trauma are provided to safeguard against re-traumatization and to respond most effectively to those with a trauma history.​​
Strength-Based Therapy: Focuses on personal strengths, and the development of new strengths. 
Positive Psychology Principles: Emphasizes meaning, deep satisfaction, and building a fulfilling life. 
Mind-Body Practices: Behavioral and psychosocial interventions such as mindfulness, meditation, loving-kindness, visualization, breathwork, use of sound and affirmations, body awareness/reflection.​
Somatic Experiencing: A holistic therapeutic approach that incorporates the person's mind, body, soul, and emotions in the healing process. It is a modality grounded in the mind-body connection.
Heart-Centered Therapy: Focus is placed on compassion for self, others, and nature. Learning to live from the heart, to be nurturing, and self-loving. To release negative thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.​

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​Founded by Laney Rosenzweig, MS, LMFT in 2007, Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is an eye movement (EM) therapy that aims to replicate the movements found during the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) stage of sleep. This stage of sleep is known to aid the body and/or mind in things such as problem-solving, healing pain, calming. ART uses these EMs to facilitate lasting changes in the brain. 
ART is focused and directive, allowing the psychotherapist to use the EMs in a very specific way to aid in the resolution of many issues, such as PTSD, anxiety, pain, grief, and more. ART therapy aids the client in completely eliminating negative images, such as those associated with loss or death, traumatic memories, or a phobia. These negative images are targeted during the session using an aspect of ART called Voluntary Image Replacement (VIR).
The EM opens a window of opportunity to make sustained changes in the brain. The body remains calm while the mind stays alert and engages in problem-solving. By the end of the session, a client can no longer retrieve negative images and the associated body sensations, such as any anxiety, grief, or stress. These sensations become more positive; the client can feel relief, happiness, peace, and safety. The client retains the facts of any memories or experiences but loses the negative images and distressing emotions associated with them. 
“Keep the Knowledge, Lose the Pain" - the client can recall their trauma or problem with little or no negative affect, and, in fact, the affect becomes positive in most cases.  ART sessions follow a very specific protocol. It is not uncommon to feel some of the usual unease and discomfort about your concerns, initially. The goal is to quickly pass beyond these feelings towards a calmer state, as well as to experience a sense of relief and resolution; the evidence to date shows that the changes made will be permanent. Most clients feel relief in 1-5 sessions, with an average of 3 sessions!

For more information, please visit www.acceleratedresolutiontherapy.com
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Internal Family Systems Therapy ​(IFS)

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An integrative approach that combines systems thinking with the view that the mind is made up of subpersonalities (parts) each with unique viewpoints, qualities, and roles within the internal family system of the individual. 
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We have a SELF that is the essence of who we are and we have a multifaceted and multidimensional internal system of parts.  In IFS therapy, we get to know our “parts” and how they function. With clearer awareness of our internal family system, we are able to heal our burdened and wounded parts, find relief, and ultimately work to establish healthy ways for our parts to “coexist”. If you have watched the movie “Inside Out”, you’ve seen a glimpse of how IFS views our inner worlds. In therapy, we patiently and gently explore that inner world. The goal is to build an embodied sense of SELF to compassionately hold our parts rather than being taken over by any certain “part”.
"You Are The One You've Been Waiting For" ~David Schwartz

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