Therapy Options & Therapeutic Approaches

Behavioral Therapy

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) explores the relationship between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. By identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and the behaviors that reinforce them, we’ll work together to develop more balanced perspectives and effective coping strategies. CBT is structured, practical, and focused on helping you make meaningful changes in your daily life.

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides practical skills for managing intense emotions, navigating difficult relationships, and responding to challenging situations more effectively. We’ll work on mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness to help you better understand your experiences and respond with greater intention rather than reacting from a place of overwhelm.

  • Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) is a brief, goal-oriented approach that helps people identify and build on their existing strengths and resources to create practical, achievable change. Rather than dwelling on problems or their origins, SFT concentrates on what a person wants to achieve and the steps that will move them toward that preferred future.

    Key principles

    • Future- and goal-focused: Emphasizes what clients want to accomplish rather than analyzing past causes.

    • Strengths-based: Assumes clients have skills, resources, and past successes they can use to progress.

    • Brief and pragmatic: Often works in fewer sessions by targeting small, actionable changes.

    • Client-led: The therapist collaborates with the client to define goals and solutions that fit the client’s life and values.

    • Small changes snowball: Even minor shifts are seen as important steps that can lead to larger improvements.

    Common techniques

    • Miracle question: Asks clients to imagine how life would be different if a problem were suddenly solved, helping clarify goals and desired outcomes.

    • Exception-finding: Identifies times when the problem did not occur or was less severe to uncover what’s already working.

    • Scaling questions: Uses a 0–10 scale to assess progress, motivation, confidence, or likelihood of change and to set small, measurable steps.

    • Goal-focused tasks: Generates specific, achievable tasks between sessions to build momentum and test

  • Through the strength based approach we focus on your abilities, resources, values, resilience, and past successes and not only your challenges. Together, we build on what is already working to support growth, self-awareness, and meaningful progress toward your goals.

Trauma Therapy

  • Brainspotting is a mind-body approach that uses visual focus and points in a person’s field of vision to help notice and process emotional and physical responses connected to distressing experiences. I use selected Brainspotting-informed techniques within my scope of practice; I am not Brainspotting-certified. We will discuss whether this approach fits your goals and proceed at your pace.

  • Trauma-informed grounding focuses on building safety, present-moment awareness, and practical coping skills before deeper trauma processing. Techniques may include paced breathing, sensory orientation, noticing emotions without judgment, and creating a personal stabilization plan. These skills are introduced collaboratively and adapted to your needs.

  • Psychoeducation helps you understand common trauma responses and how stress can affect the body, thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Sessions may include learning to recognize activation, identify triggers, practice self-regulation, and strengthen supportive routines. Any technique used is selected according to the clinician’s training, licensure, and scope of practice.