Individual

Individual Therapy

CBT

Therapy with me might be different from other therapy you may have had. Many therapists are trained primarily in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. CBT provides rapid relief, but studies show that the benefits are completely gone within 2 years. CBT is an excellent first aid tool and I use it, when necessary.

E-FIT

Emotionally-Focused Individual Therapy has long-lasting benefits, because it isn't a symptom-based therapy, like CBT is. E-FIT works with the causes of the symptoms, by updating maladaptive responses and making them adaptive again. Once this happens, you don't need to remember to do an intervention, the more automated parts of your brain choose the right response the first time, much more often than they once did. E-FIT uses a gentle memory reconsolidation approach to activate the updating process and to store the new adaptive response in a part of the brain that stores automatic responses. E-FIT is humanistic and relies on attachment theory.

SE

Somatic Experiencing is a body-based therapy for PTSD treatment. It works by reliving mildly traumatic experiences and then peak experiences in your life in an alternating pattern, like a pendulum swinging from one experience to the other. As capacity grows, slightly more intense trauma experiences are added until the trauma is healed. SE uses a slightly different approach to memory reconsolidation.

Policies

Let's talk

Click the "Let's talk" link;
Scroll to the bottom of the page that opens; and
Click "Contact" to open a HIPAA-Compliant messaging app.

Reaching me by phone is difficult, because I am often working with clients during normal business hours, or working on my boat when I'm not in my office and don't have the phone handy.