What can I expect in therapy?
​Mental health therapy is like having a safe space to explore your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It’s a supportive process that helps you grow and heal. You can learn coping skills and gain insights into challenges. Different types of therapy can help you improve your mental well-being and understand yourself better. Therapy empowers you to live a fulfilling life and handle life’s ups and downs with more strength.
Different types of therapy we offer and how they can help you on your journey
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavorial Therapy (DBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a practical, skills-based approach to therapy that helps you understand how your thoughts, feelings, and actions are connected. It focuses on noticing unhelpful thought patterns, learning how to challenge them, and practicing new ways of responding that can help you feel more balanced and in control. CBT is often structured and goal-oriented, giving you tools you can use both in and outside of sessions to cope with everyday challenges.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
DBT is a skills-based approach that helps people manage intense emotions, improve relationships, and cope with stress more effectively. It teaches practical tools for staying present, regulating emotions, communicating needs clearly, and handling conflict without things escalating. DBT is especially helpful if emotions feel overwhelming or relationships often feel confusing or painful.
​Integrative Somatic and Emotionally focused Therapy
Relational Therapy and Drama Therapy
Relational Therapy
Relational therapy focuses on how your relationships—past and present—shape the way you see yourself and connect with others. It creates a safe space to explore patterns like trust, closeness, boundaries, and communication. By understanding these patterns and experiencing a supportive therapeutic relationship, you can begin to build healthier, more secure connections in your life.
Drama Therapy
Drama therapy uses creativity, movement, storytelling, and role-play to help you explore emotions and experiences that may be hard to put into words. Instead of only talking, you might act things out, use imagination, or tell stories to gain insight and practice new ways of relating. It can be especially helpful for expressing feelings, building confidence, and seeing situations from a new perspective
​Emotionally Focused Therapy is a relationship-centered and body-aware approach that helps people understand and transform emotional patterns that shape how they relate to themselves and others. In this integrative form, EFT recognizes that emotions are not just thoughts or feelings, but experiences that live in the body and nervous system.
Therapy focuses on creating safety so the nervous system can settle out of survival responses like fight, flight, or shutdown. By gently tracking bodily sensations, emotional cues, and patterns of connection, clients learn to recognize what their system is signaling beneath surface reactions such as anger, numbness, or withdrawal. Drawing from polyvagal theory, EFT helps clients build the capacity to feel safe in connection, regulate emotions, and respond rather than react.
Through a supportive therapeutic relationship, clients practice noticing, naming, and expressing core emotions while staying grounded in their bodies. This process strengthens emotional regulation, deepens self-understanding, and fosters more secure, attuned, and authentic relationships—with others and with oneself.
Trauma-informed Therapy and EMDR
Trauma-informed Therapy
Trauma-informed therapy recognizes how past overwhelming or unsafe experiences can continue to affect your thoughts, emotions, body, and relationships. It prioritizes safety, trust, and choice, moving at a pace that feels manageable for you. Rather than asking “what’s wrong with you,” this approach focuses on understanding “what happened to you” and helping you build a sense of stability, empowerment, and resilience.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a specialized approach used to help you process and recover from trauma and distressing life experiences. It involves guided eye movements that facilitate the reprocessing of traumatic memories, allowing youto integrate these experiences more effectively. EMDR is recognized for its ability to alleviate symptoms of PTSD and anxiety, promoting emotional healing and resilience. This therapy is conducted by trained professionals in a structured environment.