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This therapy allows the client to take more of a lead in discussions so that they will discover their own solutions.  The goal is for the client to achieve greater independence which will allow the client to better cope with any current and future problems they may face.  The Therapist will be a compassionate facilitator, listening without judgement and acknowledging the client’s experience without moving the conversation in another direction. 

This therapy is when a Therapist trained in play uses the therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychosocial difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development.  The Therapist can use playtime to observe and gain insights into a child’s problems.  The Therapist can then help the child explore emotions and deal with unresolved trauma.  Through play, children can learn new coping skills and how to redirect inappropriate behaviors.  Family play therapy can be very effective at strengthening family relationships.  

Therapy focuses on the client and their relationship to other people.  The goal is to improve the quality of a client’s interpersonal relationships and social functioning to help reduce their distress.  The Therapist will focus on the most pressing relational problems in order to support the person wishing to make changes.

Therapy focuses on helping the client to become aware of inaccurate or negative thinking so the client can view challenging situations more clearly and respond to them in a more effective way.  The Therapist will help the client notice such negative thinking patterns and help the client to learn how to reframe their thoughts to be more positive and helpful.  

This therapy works with families to help nurture change.  Therapy may include all family members or just those able or willing to participate.  The goal is to help family members improve communication, resolve conflicts, nurture relationships, heal, and move forward together as a healthy, resilient, family unit.

Therapy aims to help a parent and child repair ruptures in their relationships and work to develop or rebuild an emotionally secure relationship.  The Therapist helps the caregiver to develop and display emotional responsiveness to their child in order to help the child to develop a secure and trusting attachment along with a positive internal working model of self and others.

This therapy identifies and changes the client’s negative thinking patterns and pushes for positive behavioral changes.  The Therapist will help the client to acknowledge that their experiences are real and how to accept who they are, regardless of challenges or difficult experiences.

Therapy focuses on helping children and parents process thoughts and feelings related to traumatic life events.  The Therapist helps the child and family to manage and resolve distressing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors along with enhancing safety, growth, parenting skills, and family communication.  The Therapist will offer skills and strategies to assist the child and family in better understanding, coping with, processing emotions and memories tied to the traumatic experiences, with the goal of promoting  the child and family to create a healthier and more adaptive meaning of the experience that took place in their life.

This therapy focuses on helping the client to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences.  EMDR helps clients to reprocess traumatic information by a process of eye movements and adaptive information processing that allows the client to experience a peaceful resolution.  The Therapist will lead the client through an eight-phase, non-invasive treatment that includes history-taking, preparation (practicing eye-movements), assessment/identifying the trauma memories, validating cognitions, rating levels of disturbance, desensitizing (eye-movements), installation of positive thoughts, body scan (clients observe physical response and report), and closure of the treatment in which instructions are provided to the client for safety and containment between sessions.