THERAPY TOOLBOX

Modalities are essentially the tools a therapist uses to help individuals reach their goals. 

  Existential therapy focuses on free will, self-determination, and the search for meaning—often centering on the individual rather than on their symptoms. The approach emphasizes a person's capacity to make rational choices and to develop to their maximum potential.  

Person-Centered Therapy is based on the idea that individuals are capable of deciding what they want to explore and how they want to do it. This approach provides a supportive environment to investigate identity, feelings, experiences, and emotions to encourage growth and self-realization.

Attachment theory focuses on relationships and bonds (particularly long-term) between people, including those between a parent and child and between romantic partners. It is a psychological explanation for the emotional bonds and relationships between people. 

 Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is a form of talk therapy that aims to help people overcome trauma, loss, or other serious emotional challenges. Drawing on attachment theory, body-focused approaches, and other related disciplines, 

 Sand Tray Therapy is a nonverbal, therapeutic intervention that makes use of a sandbox and toy figures to create scenes of miniature worlds that reflect a person’s inner thoughts, struggles, and concerns. 

 Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a structured program of therapy with a strong educational component designed to provide skills for regulating intense emotions and managing social relationships.  

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is based on the idea that the way someone thinks and feels affects the way he or she behaves. CBT aims to help clients resolve present-day challenges like depression, anxiety, relationship problems, anger issues, stress, or other common concerns that negatively affect mental health and quality of life. 

 Experiential Therapy is a category of therapeutic techniques in which expressive tools and activities—such as role-playing or acting, props, arts and crafts, music, animal care, guided imagery, or various forms of recreation—are used to allow clients to re-enact and re-experience emotional situations from their past or their relationships.  

Inner child healing extends an invitation to examine ingrained core beliefs and wounds from childhood and make connections to the adult self. This allows an individual to reclaim their power and re-write their story as an adult.

Shadow work is uncovering the undesirable parts of self (shadow-self) that are hidden in the unconscious.  This courageous work allows an individual to acknowledge and embrace all parts of self without judgement.

 Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) aims to improve couple relationships by rekindling the physical and emotional bond that can get sacrificed to disappointment in a partner and alienation from them, a common dynamic in distressed couples.  

  Gottman Method is an approach to couples therapy that includes a thorough assessment of the couple’s relationship and integrates research-based interventions that are grounded in the Sound Relationship House Theory.