We Utilize These Trauma Informed Clinical Modalities
Know Thyself Healing and Therapy believes all clients hold the key to their own success and can be guided to that end in a safe, trusting, honest environment. ​Building relationships and skills for growth, understanding and healing are among our goals in therapy. We connect with our own personal journeys through life’s challenges to connect with clients at a deeper level. We believe this allows us to not only empathize with our clients, but also partner with them on their specific healing journey.
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We believe the keys essential to reaching any goal lies within each of us believing in ourselves and knowing that someone also believes in us.​ We have experience working with emotional dysregulation, anxiety, depression, selective mutism, trauma, oppositional behaviors, family change, loss and grief, parenting skills, adoption issues, spiritual awakening, sexual abuse, and domestic violence group work.
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We are a trauma informed agency who utilizes EMDR, Accelerated Resolution Therapy , Cognitive Processing Therapy as well as Brainspotting. ​We also teach adults and children how to take control of their lives in mind, body, and spirit to navigate a stressful world.​​
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
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 ->
Brainspotting
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.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
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)
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.
Clinical Hypnotherapy
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)
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)
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 Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
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.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
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
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.
Sandplay Therapy
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.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
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.