“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.”
- Carl Rogers (the founder of Humanistic Psychology).
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Polyvagal Therapy
Holistic Healing: By combining these therapies, clients can address trauma from multiple angles, fostering a deeper understanding of their emotional experiences and the physiological responses associated with trauma.
Enhanced Emotional Regulation: IFS helps clients understand and communicate with their internal parts, promoting self-compassion and emotional regulation alongside the desensitization process of EMDR, while Polyvagal Theory informs clients about their nervous system responses and helps them achieve a state of safety.
Increased Resilience: This integrative approach empowers clients to develop resilience by integrating traumatic memories into their overall narrative, strengthening their coping mechanisms and facilitating a greater sense of control over their lives.
Personalized Experience: Each modality can be tailored to meet individual client needs, allowing for a personalized treatment path that respects the unique nature of their trauma and internal struggles.
In summary, the integrative treatment of trauma with EMDR, IFS, and Polyvagal Therapy can lead to profound healing, fostering emotional well-being and resilience.
By combining these therapeutic approaches, adults with ADHD can gain valuable skills for managing their symptoms while also fostering emotional resilience and a greater sense of self-acceptance. This holistic approach empowers individuals to navigate their daily lives more effectively, leading to improved well-being and overall functioning.
Executive functioning skills therapy for adults with ADHD targets the cognitive processes that enable individuals to plan, organize, and execute tasks effectively. This type of therapy focuses on improving various executive functioning skills, such as working memory, cognitive flexibility, task initiation, and emotional regulation
Executive Functioning Therapy: tailored to enhance skills essential for everyday functioning, such as organization, time management, and task prioritization. Through this therapy, clients learn practical techniques to break tasks into smaller, manageable steps, set achievable goals, and create structured routines. By developing these skills, adults with ADHD can improve their productivity and reduce feelings of overwhelm, leading to a greater sense of accomplishment and control in their lives.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): focuses on fostering psychological flexibility and helping individuals accept their thoughts and feelings without judgment. For adults with ADHD, this can be particularly beneficial, as it encourages them to acknowledge their experiences without being overly defined by them. ACT promotes the idea of committing to personal values and taking meaningful actions aligned with those values, even in the presence of challenges. This approach can help clients develop a more compassionate relationship with themselves and reduce the impact of negative self-talk, empowering them to pursue their goals.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT): addresses the thought patterns and beliefs that can hinder progress for individuals with ADHD. Through structured sessions, clients learn to identify and challenge negative thoughts and cognitive distortions that may contribute to feelings of inadequacy or frustration. CBT helps clients develop more constructive thinking patterns and coping strategies, enhancing their ability to manage impulsivity and stress.
Integrating Intuitive Eating and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) can significantly benefit individuals struggling with binge eating.
Intuitive Eating focuses on helping clients reconnect with their bodies by encouraging them to listen to their hunger and fullness cues, promoting a healthier relationship with food. This approach fosters body positivity and self-acceptance by challenging societal norms around dieting and weight, allowing clients to enjoy food without guilt or restriction.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) complements this by teaching clients to cultivate mindfulness skills, enabling them to observe their thoughts and feelings without judgment. This can help reduce emotional eating by encouraging awareness of triggers and the underlying emotions associated with binge eating behaviors. MBCT also aids in identifying and altering harmful thought patterns related to food and body image.
Together, these approaches provide a holistic framework for addressing binge eating by promoting awareness, self-compassion, and a balanced relationship with food, ultimately leading to healthier eating patterns and improved emotional well-being.
As your therapist, I will develop integrative approach that combines the following modalities, tailored to your individual circumstances and preferences that will lead to effective treatment outcomes:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): is highly effective in treating anxiety and depression by helping clients identify and challenge negative thought patterns and behaviors. This modality improves emotional regulation during the perinatal and postpartum periods.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Therapy (MBSR): encourages clients to develop mindfulness skills, which can reduce anxiety and promote emotional awareness. These practices can help clients manage stress and enhance self-compassion.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): helps clients accept their thoughts and feelings related to perinatal and postpartum experiences while committing to take meaningful actions aligned with their values. This approach can foster resilience and encourage a more flexible response to difficult emotions.
Interpersonal Therapy (IPT): focuses on improving interpersonal relationships and communication skills, which can be particularly beneficial for new parents facing changes in their social dynamics and support systems. It helps clients address role transitions and emotional responses.
Supportive Therapy: provides a safe and empathetic space for clients to explore their feelings, experiences, and concerns related to pregnancy and postpartum to feel validated and supported. This modality involves psychoeducation, encouragement, and acceptance of healthy dependency for support.
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT): For clients struggling with their parenting role, PCIT focuses on improving the parent-child relationship through skills training and positive interactions, fostering attachment and emotional connection.
The integration of Narrative Processing, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), and Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) offers significant benefits in therapeutic work with grief and loss.
Narrative Processing: This approach empowers clients to construct and share their stories, helping them make sense of their grief and integrate their loss into their life narrative. It fosters meaning-making and encourages emotional expression, allowing clients to reclaim their personal agency in the face of loss.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT): helps clients develop mindfulness skills to remain present with their thoughts and feelings related to grief, reducing rumination and negative thought patterns. By cultivating awareness and acceptance, clients can enhance their emotional resilience and cope more effectively with their feelings of loss.
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT): focuses on identifying, experiencing, and processing emotions related to grief. It supports clients in validating their emotional responses and helps them express complex feelings such as sadness, anger, or guilt, facilitating healing and fostering a smoother emotional transition through the grieving process.
The combination of Narrative Processing, MBCT, and EFT creates a supportive framework for clients navigating grief and loss, promoting emotional healing, resilience, and a more adaptive understanding of their experiences.