Services
Individual Therapy
Individual Therapy
Individual Therapy
Our therapists will use eclectic, evidence-based practices help you explore your roots and provide insight into your thoughts, relationships, and patterns of behaviors. We will partner with you to branch out to reach your goals with new skills to communicate, effectively assert yourself and manage your emotions, thoughts and behaviors.
Couples Therapy
Individual Therapy
Individual Therapy
Our first priority in couples therapy is to understand your story; as a couple and as individuals. This will help us understand your connection, triggers, and patterns. We will provide techniques that will improve your connection, your communication, and your sex life. While we are eclectic practitioners, we lean heavily on the evidence
Our first priority in couples therapy is to understand your story; as a couple and as individuals. This will help us understand your connection, triggers, and patterns. We will provide techniques that will improve your connection, your communication, and your sex life. While we are eclectic practitioners, we lean heavily on the evidence-based Gottman Therapy techniques and practices for couples therapy, which is based on 30+ years of research.
Group Therapy
Individual Therapy
Group Therapy
Group therapy is an under utilized methodology in private practice, which is unfortunate because when used in conjunction with individual therapy it improves outcomes. Giving and receiving empathy reduces shame and stigma for all involved. Learning skills in a group allows for discussion and better understanding and retention of the materials. Success stories provide motivation and willingness.
Trauma
Stress, Life Change, Societal and Systematic Oppression
Relationships & Connection
Trauma is a cognitive distortion between how you see yourself in the world and something that happened to you. We are expert in treating survivors of rape, childhood abuse or neglect, domestic violence, community violence, racism, sexual discrimination, violence in the workplace, illness, and accidents.
Relationships & Connection
Stress, Life Change, Societal and Systematic Oppression
Relationships & Connection
Do you struggle to maintain romantic relationships? friendships? or have conflict with family members? By exploring your patterns and triggers in relationships, we can help you improve your relationships and decide when it is time to move on.
Stress, Life Change, Societal and Systematic Oppression
Stress, Life Change, Societal and Systematic Oppression
Stress, Life Change, Societal and Systematic Oppression
There is no doubt that all of us have experienced trauma and stress just in surviving the last decade. We have tools and techniques that can help you move through discomfort and cope with everyday stress and life changes.
Depression & Anxiety
Issues of Identity & Self-Esteem
Stress, Life Change, Societal and Systematic Oppression
Depression and anxiety are far too common in our society and can often fuel one another. We also understand that exhaustion and paralysis makes it feel impossible to do what you know you need to do to feel better. We can help you identify what drives your depression and/or anxiety and provide you with evidence-based techniques and a step-wise approach that will move you towards wellness.
Issues of Identity & Self-Esteem
Issues of Identity & Self-Esteem
Issues of Identity & Self-Esteem
Are you struggling to find a space where you feel you can be fully yourself? Do you feel like you have lost who you are? Or that you never knew who you were in the first place? Do you feel like you are never "good enough"? We can help you discover your strengths, accept who you are, and identify for opportunities for growth.
Emotional Regulation
Issues of Identity & Self-Esteem
Issues of Identity & Self-Esteem
Do you get so overwhelmed by emotion that you lose control ? lash-out? have panic attacks? self-harm? Maybe you can't even identify what you are feeling? We can teach you mindfulness techniques that will help you recognizing triggers as they happen, self-soothe, and choose the best way to react.
Lack of Focus, Procrastination, and Overwhelm
Lack of Focus, Procrastination, and Overwhelm
Lack of Focus, Procrastination, and Overwhelm
Are you always busy but never accomplishing your priorities? Do you procrastinate? Has working at home during proved impossible or has the return to the workplace been challenge ? We will encourage you to be kind to yourself as most people struggle with this at some point in their life. We will identify why this is happening for you, t
Are you always busy but never accomplishing your priorities? Do you procrastinate? Has working at home during proved impossible or has the return to the workplace been challenge ? We will encourage you to be kind to yourself as most people struggle with this at some point in their life. We will identify why this is happening for you, treat the underlying cause, and give you tips and techniques to improve.
Assertiveness, Anger & Conflict
Lack of Focus, Procrastination, and Overwhelm
Lack of Focus, Procrastination, and Overwhelm
Do you think anger is a toxic emotion? Whether you get overwhelmed and act out or struggle to stand up for yourself, we can help you by examining your triggers for anger, teaching you skills that will help you self-soothe, and use this important emotion in an effective manner.
Asexual & Aromantic Processing & Support Group
This group is a safe, welcoming space where asexual and aromantic individuals share their experiences, struggles, and stories. Through the development of a group community, members will have support, empathy, validation and guidance of in processing their lived experience and exploring their identity. The group therapist will empathically guide the members to challenge the expectations and beliefs that are prescribed to them by society and culture to allow for the sharing of experiences through a non-judgemental lens. This group will meet in-person will run 45-90 minutes dependent on the number of attendees each week. Clients will be required to attend their first 8 consecutive sessions and thereafter can cancel 48-hours in advance without a cancellation fee as long as regular attendance requirement is met.
DBT Skills Psychoeduction Group (Level I)
DBT was created by Martha Linehan to treat people struggling with Borderline Personality Disorder, which had previously been deemed untreatable. We find that DBT skills (including Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotional Regulation, and Distress Tolerance) are useful to everyone. Including us! Group participants will receive psychoeducation on the skills, discuss how they utilize them in daily life, and empathize and troubleshoot challenges with one another.
DBT Skills Support Group (Level II)
This group was created as an extension of our DBT Skills Training Group in response to our client's wish to have continued group support in utilizing their skills. Clients will be asked each week to share with the group a time this week when they felt they had a win in using their skills and an occasion where they struggled. Group members will provide empathy, validation, and (if they want it) the groups feedback and ideas on how to manage similar situations in the future. This is an ongoing open group, which will be cancelled each week if less than 3 people are expected to attend.
Gottman 7-Principals of Couplehood Group
"Perfection is not the price of love. Practice is. We practice how to express our love and how to receive our partner’s love. Love is an action even more than a feeling.” - John Gottman.
Gottman’s 7-Principles for Couplehood is a group based on John Gottman’s 30 years of research into what makes relationships work and the Gottman Method (a form of couples therapy) developed by Dr. Gottman and, his wife, Dr. Julie Gottman. Their approach to couples’ therapy prioritizes the strengthening of relationships by building intimacy, empathy, understanding and working through conflict in a healthy way. In this group, you and your partner will learn concrete skills for deeping your connection and improving your communication including how respond to bids for emotional connection, articulating your needs and repairing after conflict.
Men's Processing Group
In this in-person group you will have a safe and inviting space to share your stories and struggles with other men. The group therapist will empathically guide the members to challenge the expectations and beliefs that are prescribed to males by society and cultures to allow for the sharing of experiences through the lens of non-judgement. As the group connection deepens, your empathy and understanding for others will increase empathy and understanding of yourself.
Trauma Processing
The purpose of this group is to reduce your symptoms of PTSD and reduce feelings of shame by share your story in a safe space with other survivors. We run groups separately for adult survivors of: Rape, Domestic or Intimate Partner Violence, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Childhood Physical & Emotional Abuse. This group is meant for clients who have had at least 3 months of individual therapy and are actively attending at the time of the group. The group will meet for 60 minutes weekly for 11-15 weeks with 3- 6 clients in a group. There is a rigorous screening process for this group to ensure clients are ready for this step and that the environment is safe and supportive.