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Treatments
Biblical Focus Counseling

Eye Movement Desensitization Processing (EMDR)

Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) is used to reduce distress related to trauma memories. EMDR uses Adaptive Information Processing model to access and process traumatic memories and other adverse life experiences to adapt into resolution. After a successful treatment with EMDR, you should expect an effective reduction in distress, relief, reformulation of negative belief, and reduction in physiological arousal (Shapiro 1991).

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) stresses the role of thinking in how we feel and what we do. It is based on the belief that thoughts, rather than people or events, cause our negative feelings. The therapist assists the client in identifying, testing the reality of, and correcting dysfunctional beliefs underlying his or her thinking. The therapist then helps the client modify those thoughts and the behaviors that flow from them. CBT is a structured collaboration between therapist and client and often calls for homework assignments. CBT has been clinically proven to help clients in a relatively short amount of time with a wide range of disorders, including depression and anxiety (Psychology Today)

Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) is a type of psychotherapy that helps you accept the difficulties that come with life. ACT is a form of mindfulness based therapy, theorizing that greater well-being can be attained by overcoming negative thoughts and feelings. Essentially, ACT looks at your character traits and behaviors to assist you in reducing avoidant coping styles. ACT also addresses your commitment to making changes, and what to do about it when you can't stick to your goals ( Psychology Today)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is the treatment most closely associated with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Therapists practice DBT in both individual and group sessions. The therapy combines elements of CBT to help with regulating emotion through distress tolerance and mindfulness. The goal of Dialectical Behavior Therapy is to alleviate the intense emotional pain associated with BPD (Psyhcology Today)

Psychodynamic Therapy

Psychodynamic therapy, also known as insight-oriented therapy, evolved from Freudian psychoanalysis. Like adherents of psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapists believe that bringing the unconscious into conscious awareness promotes insight and resolves conflict. But psychodynamic therapy is briefer and less intensive than psychoanalysis and also focuses on the relationship between the therapist and the client, as a way to learn about how the client relates to everyone in their life.

Mindfulness-Based Therapy (MBCT)

Mindfulness-Based Therapy (MBCT) is helpful for clients with chronic pain, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, and other health issues such as anxiety and depression, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, or MBCT, is a two-part therapy that aims to reduce stress, manage pain, and embrace the freedom to respond to situations by choice. MCBT blends two disciplines--cognitive therapy and mindfulness. Mindfulness helps by reflecting on moments and thoughts without passing judgment. MBCT clients pay close attention to their feelings to reach an objective mindset, thus viewing and combating life's unpleasant occurrences.

Strength-Based Therapy

Strength-based therapy is a type of positive psychotherapy and counseling that focuses more on your internal strengths and resourcefulness, and less on weaknesses, failures, and shortcomings. This focus sets up a positive mindset that helps you build on you best qualities, find your strengths, improve resilience and change worldview to one that is more positive. A positive attitude, in turn, can help your expectations of yourself and others become more reasonable.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

Taking time to analyze problems, pathology, and past life events, SFBT concentrates on finding solutions in the present and exploring one’s hope for the future in order to find a quick and pragmatic resolution of one’s problems. This method takes the approach that you know what you need to do to improve your own life and, with the appropriate coaching and questioning, are capable of finding the best solutions (Psychology Today)

Emotionally-Focused Therapy

Emotionally-focused therapy is an approach to therapy that helps clients identify their emotions, learn to explore and experience them, to understand them and then to manage them. Emotionally-focused therapy embraces the idea that emotions can be changed, first by arriving at or 'living' the maladaptive emotion (e.g. loss, fear or shame) in session, and then learning to transform it. Emotionally-focused therapy for couples seeks to break the negative emotion cycles within relationships, emphasizing the importance of the attachment bond between couples, and how nurturing of the attachment bonds and an empathetic understanding of each other's emotions can break the cycles.

Marriage Counseling

Marriage can be one of the most rewarding, exciting and challenging life adventures at times. 

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Additionally, everyone has their own expectations and unspoken expectations of marriage. To increase marital success and happiness, couples need to have a strong foundation on open and honest communication. We will explore the major areas that often go undiscussed by couples while dating include the following topics:

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  1. Myths, beliefs and definitions of love

  2. How you met your fiance and what keeps you together

  3. Meaning, beliefs and expectations of marriage

  4. Leaving family of origin and creating a new family unit.

  5. Faith, family rituals, holidays

  6. Life-long goals as individuals, as a couple and as a family

  7. Communication styles & skills

  8. Conflict resolution, negotiation and compromise

  9. Sex & intimacy

  10. Finances

  11. Children & parenting styles

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