We are proud to have providers who specialize in working with children and adolescents. Each provider has a unique style and treatment modality. Most common counseling approach is through use of art therapy and play therapy. We utilize outcome scales to tailor and individualize our treatment approach.  Your child will learn skills and tools to communicate and handle emotional problems. Families are welcome to participate and collaborate in the process. 

Some of our providers have a background in Christian orientation or tradition and if patient desires we can include that as part of their therapy process. These providers are trained to be objective in their role and are sensitive to our patients diverse religious and spiritual practices. Some patients are comforted knowing that they can find a provider with some background in the Christian faith. Others may be interested in a secular approach. 

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a treatment modality that focuses on undoing negative belief structures steaming from our thoughts. This intervention is great for individuals who can recognize negative thought patterns and are interested in correcting them. Providers will prescribe homework and handouts to help direct the treatment and will evaluate and establish therapeutic goals. 

Couples counseling often involves coming to a session as a couple and together examining unhealth patterns, norms, or communication styles that get in a way of a successful relationship. Therapy involves meeting individually and as a couple to learn about each person background and to understand conscious and unconscious reasons for current problems.  Interventions may involve learning new ways of communicating, undoing norms and behaviors that restrain the couple from feeling close and successful. A couple system can overcome any difficulties if it has successful communication tools and strategies. 

Rapid development of communication and transportation of technology has brought together people of diverse cultures, ethnicity, geographies, and religions in every aspect of contemporary human life. Adjusting to an uncertain or ambiguous situation caused by unpredictable nature of intercultural interactions can be psychologically stressful. Individuals who face traumatic effects of displacement and pressures and challenges of assimilation into the American society can benefit from culture-centered psychotherapy.

Although the ethnic community and family networks provide a strong social system of norm and values aimed at preserving cultural harmony for individuals who went through resettlement process, it can also be a source of tension for the new generation born in the United States. Psychotherapy sensitive to cross-cultural dynamics can be very helpful in assisting individuals and families to gain insights and tools to successfully thrive in current cultural context while preserving ones own cultural identity. 

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a behavioral intervention that helps individuals with chronic self-harm fantasies and self-harm behaviors. Individuals might have chaotic inner emotional experiences and often volatile relationships with unhealthy coping mechanisms. This technique is filled with tools and skills training to increase self-regulation and calming skills and decrease suicidal behavior and increase functional emotional regulation.  

Service Not Available: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is an alternative intervention in psychotherapy that activates brain activity through eye  movement to help dampen the emotionality associated with a traumatic event. EMDR is great for patients who have a specific traumatic event that they don't want to process verbally and would like to lessen post traumatic symptoms like flashbacks, night terrors, and hypervigilance.   

Family psychotherapy is an intervention that includes the study of family dynamics and how the problem patient is supported by the whole system. When families come together in a treatment room the therapist will attempt to support functional family dynamics and confront the dysfunctional patterns and will destigmatize families chosen identified patient. 

Evidence based treatment intervention that administers outcome rating scale and session rating scale to track patient's progress in therapy and therapist alliance. 

A regular weekly meeting with individuals who are interested to work on themselves and on relationships in their lives. These meetings are facilitated by a trained therapist who understands and maintains group dynamics and culture of interpersonal learning.

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Hypnotherapy is an intervention utilized in psychotherapy through trance induction and subconscious exploration to understand the root of the problem and utilize hypnosis to correct unwanted habits or behaviors. 

Narrative therapy is a post-modern approach changes the way that you look at your life and your problems. The approach emphasizes the skills a person might have to deal with their probems and seperates a person from their problem. 

The psychodynamic approach emphasizes the relationship between the patient and the therapist and the way one's history has contributed to current life's struggles. This type of therapy is a long-term psychotherapy that focuses on deepening insight, increasing self-awareness, working through internal conflicts, and resolving symptoms.

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Modern Analytic Approach is a psychodynamic approach that focuses on long term charactor development through supporting of ones wn defenses and looking at growing and developing ones own emotional capacity for love and connection. 

Solution-focused therapy approach focuses on the solutions to current problems not the past or the root causes of behaviors. This is a brief goal oriented approach that focuses on solving patients current problems and strengthening resources patient has available to pursue the goals they want.  

Somatic Psychotherapy is an approach that emphasizes the use of the body and nervous system to rewire the body from chronic stress reaction. This approach utilizes the body and the mind to help produce a more calming safe feeling that is more appropriate to current life circumstances. Individuals with history of trauma or combat often experience a frozen state of flight-fight-freeze reaction and it causes undue distress and symptoms. 

System Centered Theory is a system of thinking that helps normalize and depathologize human experience. Analyzing systems as structures that have restraining and driving energy and hypothesizes that reducing restraining energy will release driving energy that will serve in the interest of development and transformation.