We Use a Few Different Approaches to Support Clients on Their Healing Journey

Psychodynamic Therapy: Understanding the Past to Transform the Present

Often our patterns and inner struggles stem from early relationships and unconscious beliefs. By exploring your story with care and curiosity, we can begin to shift long-held patterns and bring more freedom into your present.

Why We Use It: Often, we find ourselves stuck in the same kinds of struggles: choosing unavailable partners, being overly self-critical, or fearing abandonment. These patterns usually aren’t random—they're shaped by earlier experiences that created templates for how we see ourselves and others. Psychodynamic therapy helps us gently uncover those deeper layers so that you can start to make new choices, ones that reflect who you are now—not just what you learned in the past.

How It Helps You: With increased self-awareness, you start to understand the “why” behind your patterns. That insight isn’t just intellectual—it’s emotionally freeing. As we work through the roots of long-held beliefs or behaviors, you begin to experience more agency and self-compassion in your everyday life.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Living with Meaning, Even When Life is Hard

Why We Use It: Life is full of challenges—grief, anxiety, disappointment, and uncertainty. ACT gives us tools to relate to these inner experiences differently. Rather than fighting your feelings or getting stuck in self-judgment, ACT helps you build a more flexible, compassionate relationship with your thoughts and emotions. We use mindfulness-based practices to help you stay grounded in the present and values-based work to guide your decisions.

How It Helps You: ACT can be incredibly empowering. It gives you the skills to handle difficult emotions more gracefully, let go of unhelpful internal battles, and move forward with clarity and purpose. Over time, you build a life that's rich and meaningful—not because everything is perfect, but because you’re living in alignment with what truly matters to you.

ART: Rapid Healing for Trauma and Stress

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a short-term, highly effective therapy that uses eye movements and guided visualization to help the brain “reprocess” painful memories. It’s rooted in neuroscience and helps the brain update the way distressing events are stored, so they lose their emotional intensity.

Why We Use It: Trauma doesn’t live in the past—it lives in the body and nervous system, often resurfacing through flashbacks, anxiety, or emotional overwhelm. ART works quickly to reduce the physical and emotional charge of traumatic memories without requiring you to verbally retell the details over and over. Many clients find relief in just a few sessions.

How It Helps You: ART helps resolve traumatic experiences at the brain-body level, so you can feel calmer, more in control, and no longer haunted by the past. It’s especially useful for PTSD, anxiety, grief, phobias, and distressing images that feel “stuck” in the mind. The process is gentle, structured, and often surprisingly fast.