Know Thyself Healing & Therapy

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is an evidence–based novel psychotherapy that fosters rapid recovery by reprogramming how the brain stores traumatic memories and imagery. This modality utilizes a variety of methods that allow a person to move any negative images, sensations and symptoms held in the body.  Read More ->   Videos ->

Developed by John Bowlby, Attachment Therapy focuses on the development and connections between the infant and caregiver(s) and how they impact a child’s behavior and later in life, an adult’s behavior regarding relationships.

Brainspotting is a somatic-based psychotherapy that uses a bottom-up approach. Whereas talk therapies utilize a top-down approach. Brainspotting access the somatic activation and releases the related to trauma that is stuck or frozen survival response that is trapped in the body.

Child-Centered Play Therapy is a developmentally responsive, play-based mental health intervention. CCPT utilizes play, the natural language of children, and therapeutic relationship to provide a safe, consistent therapeutic environment in which a child can experience full acceptance, empathy, and understanding from the counselor while processing inner experiences and feelings through play and symbols. In CCPT, a child’s experience within the counseling relationship is the factor that is most healing and meaningful in creating lasting, positive change. Based on person-centered principles, CCPT helps the child move toward integration and self-enhancing ways of being.

Clinical Hypnotherapy teaches patients to use a deep relaxation state to address issues such as smoking cessation, weight loss, pain relief, or self-improvement. Hypnotherapy (sometimes called hypnotic suggestion) is a therapeutic practice that uses guided hypnosis to help a client reach a trance-like state of focus, concentration, diminished peripheral awareness, and heightened suggestibility.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a specific type of cognitive behavioral therapy that has been effective in reducing symptoms of PTSD that have developed after experiencing a variety of traumatic events including child abuse, combat, sexual assault and natural disasters.

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is an evidence-based treatment that helps individuals recover from trauma and PTSD. It focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts related to the traumatic experience, reducing distress, and improving daily functioning. CPT helps address common trauma symptoms such as intrusive memories, emotional numbness, hypervigilance, and self-blame, allowing individuals to process their experiences in a healthier way.

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a structured program of psychotherapy with a strong educational component designed to provide skills for managing intense emotions and negotiating social relationships. Developed to curb self-destructive impulses of chronic suicidal patients, and used for borderline personality disorder, emotion dysregulation, and a growing array of psychiatric conditions. While we do not provide full DBT services, we do leverage aspects of this modality in the therapy we provide.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. This is done by using eye movements (or other bilateral stimulation) to process the memory and disturbing feelings.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is a form of psychotherapy that was developed by Dr. Richard C. Schwartz in the 1980s. It is based on the idea that the mind is made up of multiple "parts," each with its own unique characteristics, feelings, and behaviors. These parts are thought to interact with one another within an individual's internal system, much like members of a family. Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is a transformative and holistic approach to psychotherapy that helps individuals understand and heal their internal worlds. By working with different parts of the psyche and fostering a connection with the Self, IFS offers a pathway to deep healing, emotional regulation, and personal growth.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, MBCT, is a modified form of cognitive therapy that incorporates mindfulness practices that include present moment awareness, meditation, and breathing exercises.

Person-centered therapy, employs a non-authoritative approach that allows clients to take more of a lead in sessions such that, in the process, they discover their own solutions. During person-centered therapy, a therapist acts as a compassionate facilitator, listening without judgment and acknowledging the client’s experience without shifting the conversation in another direction.

Psychodynamic Therapy focuses on the unconscious processes and how early developmental experiences in childhood influence an individual’s current thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It moves individuals toward self-reflection and the organization of the inner world.

Sandplay therapy is a nonverbal, therapeutic intervention that makes use of a sandbox, toy figures, and sometimes water, to create scenes of miniature worlds that reflect a person’s inner thoughts, struggles, and concerns. This is a form of play therapy; other methods include imaginary play with toys and puppets or bibliotherapy that uses literature to help a patient interpret stories or fiction and how such writings may relate to the patient’s own difficulties.

Self-Psychology focuses on and ties back to childhood development and the three self-object needs that contribute to self-cohesion, affect regulation, and interpersonal functioning. Self-psychology and attachment therapy are closely related.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is one of the world's most widely used therapeutic treatments. Unlike traditional forms of therapy that take time to analyze problems, pathology, and past life events, SFBT concentrates on finding solutions in the present and exploring one’s hope for the future in order to find a quick and pragmatic resolution of one’s problems.