Considering Therapy?
Teton Behavior Therapy serves people of all ages with individual, group, and family therapy in both Spanish and English.
Teton Behavior Therapy believes that a strong, healthy community begins with individual mental health. Whether you are in a moment of crisis or experiencing chronic struggles, TBT is here to listen and help heal. Our adult, child, and family counselors specialize in treating anxiety, depression, substance abuse, OCD, trauma, and maternal mental health.
As a parent or caregiver, it can sometimes be hard to determine the difference between normal childhood development and a kid in need of extra help. Visit this page for more information about whether your child may benefit from therapy.
If you or a loved one are seeking mental health services, please contact us to set up a phone consultation today. Experienced and confidential professionals serve in our Jackson, Pinedale and Driggs locations.
Therapy Models
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a problem-focused type of intervention. Rather than an in-depth focus on past experience, cognitive behavioral therapy (or CBT) seeks to teach participants to become their own therapist. CBT helps clients recognize their thought patterns and identify where and when those patterns help and where they hurt. Using problem-solving strategies and skill-building techniques the client and therapist work together to change dysfunctional thoughts and replace them with more proactive thoughts and behaviors.
In cognitive therapy, clients and their families learn to:
- Distinguish between thoughts and feelings.
- Become aware of the ways in which thoughts can influence feelings in ways that sometimes are not helpful.
- Learn about thoughts that seem to occur automatically, without even realizing how they may affect emotions.
- Evaluate critically whether these “automatic” thoughts and assumptions are accurate, or perhaps biased.
- Develop the skills to notice, interrupt, and correct these biased thoughts independently.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)
Daily stressors and subconscious anxieties can often disrupt our sleeping patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia helps identify maladaptive cognitive processes that could be keeping you from getting the rest you need. CBT-I is an effective approach for many who struggle to fall asleep and stay asleep at night.
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. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma.
When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.
Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes.
Synergetic Play Therapy (SPT)
Synergetic Play Therapy (SPT) is a therapeutic method that combines play therapy principles with neurobiology and mindfulness to help children heal from psychological and emotional difficulties. This innovative approach views the therapeutic relationship as central to the healing process and emphasizes the co-regulation between therapist and client.
Therapeutic Goals:
- Understanding how the brain and nervous system are impacted by trauma and stress, SPT aims to restore a sense of safety and regulatory capacity in the nervous system.
- Highlighting that co-regulation—the mutual regulation of emotion between the therapist and client—is a cornerstone of therapeutic healing.
- Emphasizing empathetic attunement to the client’s emotional states, fostering a deep connection and understanding.
- Using play to externalize and work through inner conflicts and emotional states, enabling clients to gain insight and mastery over their challenges.
EMOTION FOCUSED FMAILY THERAPY (EFFT)
Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) is an innovative therapeutic approach designed to help families navigate and resolve emotional and relational difficulties. EFFT emphasizes the importance of emotions in interpersonal relationships and aims to create a supportive environment that promotes healing and growth. EFFT modalities can be effective in child and family therapy, and parent coaching sessions.
Goals:
- Helps family members identify, understand, and regulate their emotions. By fostering emotional awareness, family members can better express and manage their feelings, leading to healthier interactions.
- Involves training parents or caregivers to be more effective in providing emotional support. This might include guiding them in responding to their child’s emotional needs and in facilitating the child’s emotional expression.
- Works toward identifying negative interaction patterns that perpetuate conflict and distress. By fostering constructive communication and emotional responsiveness, EFFT aims to break these cycles.
- Empowers families by providing them with tools and strategies to manage emotional challenges and enhance their relationships independently, promoting long-term resilience and well-being.
EFFT aims to foster a nurturing and emotionally responsive family environment where individuals feel understood, valued, and connected, thus leading to healthier family dynamics and enhanced emotional well-being.
GOTTMAN (COUPLES THERAPY)
Gottman Method Couples Therapy, is a structured, research-based approach to couples counseling. Its primary aim is to increase respect, affection, and closeness, resolve conflict when couples feel stuck, generate greater understanding between partners, and keep conflict discussions calm.
Therapy Goals:
- Encouraging partners to enhance their knowledge of each other’s world, fostering stronger emotional insight and connection.
- Emphasizing positive thoughts about each other to maintain respect and appreciation.
- Promoting small, daily acts that build intimacy and emotional connection.
- Teaching skills for managing conflict in a healthy, productive way, distinguishing between solvable and perpetual problems.
- Encouraging couples to support and pursue each other’s life dreams and aspirations.
- Helping couples build a deeper sense of shared meaning and purpose in life, creating a family culture rich in rituals, roles, and personal goals.
The Gottman Method focuses on building and maintaining a healthy, positive, and long-lasting relationship. It relies heavily on empirical data and practical exercises to help couples improve communication, resolve conflicts more effectively, and deepen their emotional bond.
EMOTION-FOCUSED THERAPY (EFT)
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is a therapeutic approach designed to help individuals and couples process and transform their emotional experiences to resolve psychological distress. EFT emphasizes the importance of understanding and leveraging emotions as the key to psychological health and transformation. By promoting emotional awareness, regulation, and transformation within a supportive therapeutic context, EFT enables clients to resolve distress, build emotional intelligence, and foster personal growth.
Therapy Goals:
- Helping clients become aware of and articulate their emotions, recognizing that emotions provide valuable information about needs and priorities.
- Assisting clients in managing and expressing their emotions in healthy and adaptive ways.
- Facilitating the transformation of maladaptive emotions into adaptive ones, aiding clients in shifting from feelings such as shame or fear to feelings such as self-compassion or empowerment.
- Promoting a sense of agency by helping clients take ownership of their emotions and responses, leading to more authentic and congruent behavior.
- Engaging clients deeply in their emotional experiences as a pathway to understanding and growth.
Get in Touch
Email
For more information or to inquire about appointments, email us at info@tetonbehaviortherapy.com
Phone
Give us a call at 307-734-6040 for billing questions, appointment inquires, and general information.