My Methods
In our sessions, we work together as partners, drawing from a variety of resources to spark new ideas and insights. Clients often leave feeling inspired, equipped with fresh perspectives and practical tools to create meaningful change.
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Rather than following a single counseling theory, I focus on the whole person and thoughtfully combine different approaches to suit your unique needs. We will explore these options together and choose what resonates most with your goals. Your involvement shapes our path, turning each session into a true collaboration.
Attachment Theory
Attachment theory suggests that early bonds with caregivers create a blueprint for future relationships, shaping emotional health and behavior. In counseling, this involves examining how childhood experiences influence current relationships.
In therapy, we use these insights to offer a secure relational experience, build self-awareness, and teach skills for emotional regulation and healthy communication.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people manage complex thoughts and feelings with greater flexibility. Rather than fighting these experiences, ACT guides people to accept them and act in ways that reflect what matters to them.
ACT does not focus on getting rid of symptoms. Instead, it uses acceptance, mindfulness, and a focus on personal values to help people create a more meaningful life, even when they are experiencing pain or distress.
ACT is a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy that teaches useful skills for dealing with challenges and making positive changes. It can support people facing depression, anxiety, work stress, or addiction.
Schema Therapy
Schema therapy is a type of therapy that blends ideas from several approaches, including cognitive-behavioral, attachment, and psychodynamic therapies. It looks at long-standing patterns that often begin in childhood, called 'schemas ', that can hold people back.
The goal is to help individuals recognize and change these patterns, develop healthier coping strategies, and better meet their emotional needs. If we decide to pursue this approach, I will provide an assignment to help identify your schemas.
Schema therapy is especially effective for individuals with chronic or persistent challenges that have not improved with other treatments. It is commonly used for depression, anxiety, eating disorders, substance abuse, and other enduring patterns.
Insight-Based Therapy
An insight-based approach helps clients understand how past experiences and unconscious conflicts influence their present thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
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By examining these connections, people can better understand themselves, resolve inner conflicts, break negative habits, and make better choices.
This approach is often used to help with depression, anxiety, relationship problems, and trauma.
Behavioral Therapy
Behavioral therapy is a form of counseling that helps people identify unhelpful habits and replace them with healthier, more positive routines.
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This approach focuses on solving current problems by helping people build new skills and change how they think and act, rather than looking to the past.
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It includes methods such as Exposure Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
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It provides practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, and stress-related conditions.
Family Systems
Family systems views a person's challenges as influenced by the entire family, not just the individual. By providing insight into multigenerational patterns, we can trace the origins of behavioral and emotional traits. This awareness helps break cycles of dysfunction, such as unresolved conflicts or over-involvement.
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Family systems highlights the importance of each person maintaining their own identity and emotional space while remaining part of the family.
Finding this balance helps people grow, rely less on each other for emotional support, and react less strongly to family issues. As a result, clients can better understand the family system that shapes them and build stronger, more supportive relationships.