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.

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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.

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.

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Play Therapy is a form of therapy in which a child plays in a protected and structured environment with games and toys provided by a therapist, who observes the behavior, affect, and conversation of the child to gain insight into thoughts, feelings, and fantasies. As conflicts are discovered, the therapist often helps the child understand and work through them.

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The therapeutic practice involves being an active participant in your journey. The focus isn’t on the aesthetic production of art it is on the cathartic release, the healing process, development of coping skills, psychoeducation, and the rising of subconscious material to awareness. Art interventions and materials are used with the clinical intention to help you form a deeper understanding of self, how you are relating to and perceiving others, and your experiences.

• Art therapy is a mental health profession that uses creative processes to enrich the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of individuals, families, and communities (AATA, 2020). ​
• Art Therapy is facilitated by a professional art therapist, who effectively supports personal and relational treatment goals as well as community concerns. Art Therapy is used to improve cognitive and sensory-motor functions, foster self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivate emotional resilience, promote insight, enhance social skills, reduce and resolve conflicts and distress, and advance societal and ecological change (AATA, 2020).​
• Through integrative methods, art therapy engages the mind, body, and spirit in ways that are distinct from verbal articulation alone. Kinesthetic, sensory, perceptual, and symbolic opportunities invite alternative modes of receptive and expressive communication, which can circumvent the limitations of language. Visual and symbolic expression gives voice to experience and empowers individual, communal, and societal transformation​ (CATA, 2020).

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ~Vincent van Gogh

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