Clinical Specialties/Orientation

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is focused on the “here-and-now” and is a collaborative, goal-directed approach. CBT has been proven to be especially effective for depression and anxiety. The basic concept is that one’s thoughts influence one’s emotions, which then has a direct affect on behavior. CBT challenges negative thought patterns with a variety of concrete interventions designed to help modify behaviors to bring about positive change. It is a pragmatic and efficient form of psychotherapy.

Psychodynamic Therapy

Psychodynamic therapy is also known as insight-oriented therapy.  The therapist interprets the patient's words and behaviors. This approach holds that bringing the unconscious into conscious awareness promotes insight and resolves conflict. This therapy involves more long-term work than cognitive behavioral therapy.

Family Systems Therapy

Family Systems therapy looks at the entire family as a complex system having its own language, roles, rules, beliefs, needs and patterns. Each family member plays a part in the system, and family systems therapy helps an individual discover how his/her childhood family operated, his/her role in that system and how the experience affects him/her in his/her current family.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us.  When we’re mindful, we reduce stress, enhance performance, gain insight and awareness through observing our own mind.  Mindfulness meditation gives us a time in our lives when we can suspend judgment and unleash our natural curiosity about the workings of the mind, approaching our experience with warmth and kindness both to ourselves and others.

We don’t have to take mindfulness on faith. Both science and experience demonstrate its positive benefits for our health, happiness, work, and relationships.