Healing Approaches Explained

Insight Oriented Psychotherapy

Insight-oriented Psychotherapy, also known as psychodynamic therapy, focuses on helping individuals understand how past experiences, including unconscious conflicts and desires, shape their present thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It aims to increase self-awareness, leading to greater emotional well-being and more effective coping strategies. This type of therapy often involves a deep exploration of the client’s history, relationships, and psychological processes
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How it works:

  • Exploration and Insight: The therapist helps the client explore their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and identify the underlying causes and patterns.
  • Understanding the “Why”: The therapist helps the client understand the reasons behind their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, particularly those that are causing distress.
  • Making Changes: Once the client gains insight, they can begin to make positive changes in their lives, such as developing healthier coping mechanisms and improving relationships.

Key Features:

  • Focus on Unconscious Processes:
  • Insight-oriented therapy delves into the unconscious mind, exploring how past experiences and unresolved conflicts can manifest in current behaviors and emotions. 
  • Emphasis on Self-Awareness:
  • The goal is to help individuals become more aware of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and how they relate to their personal history. 
  • Building a Therapeutic Relationship:
  • A strong therapeutic relationship is crucial for fostering trust and allowing for a deeper exploration of the client’s psychological landscape. 
  • Exploring Past Experiences:Clients are encouraged to explore their past experiences and how they may be influencing their present-day thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. 
  • Identifying Patterns and Themes:The therapist helps the client identify recurring patterns and themes in their experiences and how they relate to their current challenges. 

All therapists at The MindBody Therapy Collective have a foundation in Insight-Oriented Psychotherapy.

Mind Body Therapy Collective Practitioners

Stephanie Bourgeois, LCSW

Stephanie is co-founder of the Mind Body Therapy Collective and practices traditional therapy as well as holistic/somatic treatments. She is a trauma specialist and also treats the myriad of issues clients come to therapy with using approaches that include CBT, mindfulness, sandplay therapy, body psychotherapy, and is passionate about using EMDR in her work.

Renee Folzenlogen LPC, LPAT, ATR-BC, ACS, ATCS

Renee is a licensed professional counselor and board-certified art therapist experienced in supporting people from diverse cultures, ages four through 90, coping with grief, loss and life altering events. Combining talk therapy with expressive work like writing, art making, play, and mindfulness, Renee believes that creativity can be a powerful agent of healing and transformation.

Teal Paynter, LCSW

Teal specializes in working with adults, couples, and other dyads. She is an experienced trauma-informed therapist with certification in Discernment Counseling and advanced training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. Her clients are facing a range of circumstances, including trauma, depression, anxiety, grief, illness, struggling relationships, and life transitions. With a non-judgmental and collaborative style, Teal uses scientifically-proven models to help each person achieve their goals.

Tessa Vining

Tessa Vining, LCSW, LCADC, CCS

Tessa is co-founder of the Mind Body Therapy Collective and in the past 10 years, she has integrated innovative therapeutic approaches such as CBT, DBT, mindfulness, and EMDR, among others, to help her clients achieve meaningful change.

Lisa Weinberg, Ph.D.

Lisa is a licensed psychologist (NJ & NY) who specializes in the treatment of trauma and PTSD. She uses a collaborative approach as she integrates relational psychotherapy with EMDR and IFS in her work with clients and helps them to develop greater attunement to the mind-body connection. She views people as resilient and values exploration of family background, culture and social environment as important to their healing process.

Emily Zelner, LCSW

Emily is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who draws on different techniques, including EMDR and Internal Family Systems, to fit each client’s unique needs. Her trauma-informed approach offers her clients a warm and supportive space to create meaningful change. Emily is also trained in Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy and has experience working in this field.

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