Approaches

Approaches and Treatment Modalities

During your time in therapy a variety of modalities will be incorporated into your treatment plan to best serve and suit you. Some of these modalities are briefly explain below;

Solution Focused Therapy (SFBT)

SFBT is a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach, which incorporates positive psychology principles and practices this modality helps clients by constructing solution based thought patterns rather than focusing on problems. In the most basic sense, is a future oriented approach that is motivating and allows for sustainability of desired behavioral change?

Boweninan Therapy

This is a form of therapy that focuses on intergenerational dynamics in families. It explores how individuals are influenced by intergenerational processes within the family system. This form of therapy can be used with individual’s couples and families to explore concepts such as differentiation attachment emotional responses, trauma as well as how we respond and react to situations.

Narrative Therapy

This is a verbal therapy that aims to separate the individual from the problem, allowing the individual to externalize their issues rather than internalize them. In this form of therapy the client’s world view is explored to gain a deeper understanding of self. This form of therapy empowers client with skills to analyze, externalize and navigate the problem in a way best suited to their individual needs.

Family Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Cognitive–behavioral family therapy is a cognitive behavior therapy approach that is conducted against the backdrop of systems theory and includes the premise that members of a family simultaneously influence and are influenced by each other. This is a psycho-social intervention that aims to reduce symptoms of various mental health conditions; the main focus is on identifying and altered unhealthy thought and behavior patterns that may be presented.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

DBT is a type of talk therapy that is derived from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) but it's specially adapted for people who feel emotions very intensely. The aim of DBT is to help you: Understand and accept your difficult feelings and Learn skills to manage them.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT is an action-oriented approach to psychotherapy that stems from traditional behavior therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. Clients learn to stop avoiding, denying, and struggling with their inner emotions and, instead, accept that these deeper feelings are appropriate responses to certain situations that should not prevent them from moving forward in their lives. With this understanding, clients begin to accept their hardships and commit to making necessary changes in their behavior, regardless of what is going on in their lives and how they feel about it.

Mindfulness Based Therapy

This therapy aims to shift the attention of the patient toward purposefully existing in the current moment. Mindfulness offers a nonjudgmental space for learning to accept the symptoms being presents. Through the development of awareness, and beliefs held, this therapy allows clients to focus on the here and now. It builds capacity for emotional intelligence and regulation as well as creating self-awareness to better understand the self 

Trauma Focused Therapy 

Trauma-Focused Therapy is an approach to therapy that allows for recognition and emphasizes on gaining a deeper understanding of the impacts a traumatic experience has on mental, behavioral, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. This approach is focused on understanding the connection between the trauma experience and the client’s emotional and behavioral responses. The purpose of trauma-focused therapy is to offer skills and strategies to assist you in better understanding, coping with, processing emotions and memories tied to traumatic experiences, with the end goal of enabling you to create a healthier and more adaptive meaning of the traumatic experience

Art and Play Therapy 

A form of psychotherapy which uses play and creative arts as methods of expression. The session’s takes place in a safe and contained environment where the client will work through their own conflicts and challenges alongside their therapist use tools and mediums of art and play to gain a deeper and more holistic understand of any issues that may be present