Clinical Overview

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a form of psychological treatment that has been demonstrated to be effective for a range of problems including depression, anxiety disorders, alcohol and drug use problems, eating disorders, and severe mental illness. Numerous research studies suggest that CBT leads to significant improvement in functioning and quality of life. In many studies, CBT has been demonstrated to be as effective as, or more effective than, other forms of psychological therapy or psychiatric medications.

Strategic Family Therapy combines two major therapeutic models, strategic therapy and family therapy. Within the safety of therapeutic setting, strategic family therapists replicate family interactions and conversations, prompting and engaging participants with provocative questions and discussions. During these sessions, problems present themselves, and the therapists can uncover the person's strengths and abilities at solving their own problems drawing on internal resources that they hadn't before acknowledged or even realized that they possessed.

Motivational Interviewing is a counseling method that helps people resolve ambivalent feelings and insecurities to find the internal motivation they need to change their behavior. This type of therapy is often used to address addiction and helps people become motivated to change the behaviors that are preventing them from making healthier choices. It can also prepare individuals for further, more specific types of therapies.

Mindfulness and Meditation is a focus on being intensely aware of what one is sensing and feeling in the moment, without interpretation or judgement. Practicing mindfulness and meditation involves breathing methods, guided imagery, and other practices to relax the body and mind and help reduce stress. The overall evidence of mindfulness and meditation exercises cna help with stress, anxiety, pain, depression, and insomnia.

Recreational Therapy (RT) is a systematic process that utilizes recreation and other activity-based interventions to address the needs of individuals with illness and/or disabling conditions, as a means to psychological and physical health, recovery and well-being. The purpose of the RT process is to improve or maintain physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and spiritual fuctioning in order to facilitate full participation in life.

Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy tries to identify and change negative thinking patterns and pushes for positive behavioral changes. DBT may be used to treat suicidal and other self-destructive behaviors.