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Brainspotting is an advanced brain-body therapy that uses spots in a person’s visual field to help identify, process and release trauma.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT, typically pronounced as the word “act”) is an evidence-based psychotherapy that uses awareness and mindfulness strategies to increase acceptance of uncomfortable thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations. We learn where clients might be stuck, clarify the values that clients treasure most, and create goals in service of those values. When people find that they don’t have to struggle so hard to rid themselves of internal discomfort, they are able to avoid less, choose more, and commit to taking action in more meaningful and fulfilling directions.
Breathwork focuses on helping people to intentionally change their breathing pattern in order to calm the mind and body.
CBT helps people change self-defeating thoughts and beliefs in order to improve their feelings and behaviors. CBT focuses on problem-solving, building new coping skills, and creating healthier patterns of thinking.
Coherence therapy is a system of psychotherapy based on the theory that symptoms of mood, thought and behavior are produced coherently according to the person's current mental models of reality, most of which are implicit and unconscious.
DMT is the psychotherapeutic use of movement to promote emotional, social, cognitive, and physical integration of the individual, for the purpose of improving health and well-being. DMT is based on the premise that the body and mind are connected and as a result, changes in the body affect the mind and vice versa.
DBT is a skills-based therapy to give people the tools needed to become more mindful and aware of oneself both internally and externally in the world. It reduces emotional vulnerability and increases emotional stability, helping people navigate stressful situations in a healthier way. DBT also helps people build and maintain healthy relationships.
Discernment Counseling is a short-term therapy for couples in crisis and on the brink of divorce. The therapist guides the couple through a process designed to elicit clarity and confidence on a path forward, whether that is to divorce, to commit to six months of couples counseling, or to keep things “as is”.
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) is a collaborative, structured, usually short-term form of therapy designed to help couples identify their negative patterns and restore their relationship bond. Based on the science of emotions and attachment theory, EFT is evidence-based and proven to have a high success rate in achieving secure, resilient relationships in which individuals can flexibly manage their emotional experiences.
Energy Healing is a holistic practice that involves channeling healing energy into a patient to restore balance and improve health. The goal is to stimulate the body's ability to heal itself by removing blockages.
EMDR is an advanced and structured brain-body therapy that is used to treat single-event or more complex trauma. The patient is briefly encouraged to focus on a trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements). EMDR helps people process these memories properly, while reducing the negative emotions and beliefs associated with the trauma.
Despite the name, IFS is not family therapy. Instead, it is a form of individual talk therapy that identifies various parts of ourselves that function like sub-personalities — including younger parts, wounded parts, and protective parts. IFS works to heal these parts to allow them to work together and create a sense of inner balance and harmony. This work can help with depression, anxiety, trauma, phobias and physical pain.
Ketamine Psychedelic Integration Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that involves the use of the psychedelic substance ketamine for the purpose of facilitating therapeutic breakthroughs and insights.
Meditation is a practice of mindfulness, or a focusing of one’s mind. It helps build attention and awareness to enhance mental clarity and emotional regulation. For some, it is a spiritual practice.
Mindful Movement uses Dynamic Neurocognitive Imagery as part of the Franklin Method, which is the combination of visualization techniques with physical exercise to improve movement.
Mindfulness Therapy encourages a kind and non-judgmental attitude towards oneself in order to gently notice what is happening in the here and now. In this way, mindfulness helps people deepen their understanding of themselves and allows them to learn to fully accept their experiences and reactions to life. Many mindfulness techniques are taught including meditation, breathwork, and ways to challenge our cognitive distortions.
MBSR is an 8-week evidence-based program using mindfulness and secular meditation to help manage stress, anxiety, depression, and physical pain.
Non-dual Therapy combines ancient Eastern philosophy with modern Western psychological thought. It relies on a belief in wholeness and unity as the fundamental basis of life. A non-dual view includes difference and embraces complexity — everything and everyone belongs.
A Nutritionist can help one change their diet to promote better physical and mental health.
Past Life Regression (PLR) is a type of hypnosis that takes you through past lives and prompts you to recall memories and experiences that may be negatively affecting your present life. The PLR practitioner guides you to retrieve those memories, make sense of them and release stuck energy and emotions held in your body from those experiences. Past life therapy can help alleviate and heal many types of symptoms that are felt in the present in often striking ways.
Psychodynamic (Insight-Oriented) Therapy helps clients explore the unconscious reasons behind feelings and behaviors as well as how early childhood experiences influence present behavior. Psychodynamic/Insight-Oriented therapies aim to help clients become aware of and experience vulnerable feelings which have often felt intolerable and pushed out of conscious awareness.
Reiki is an ancient Japanese hands-on therapy that involves the use of healing high vibrational energy. This treatment can unlock the natural healing abilities of the body. It is known to increase vitality, balance and loosen blocked energy, relieve physical pain, promote calmness and reduce stress.
The Rubenfeld Synergy Method® is a holistic approach that uses the body as the starting point for healing. A unique fusion of gentle, respectful touch and talk heightens awareness of habitual patterns of constriction, tension, and blockages in the body. These physical holdings provide links to invisible emotional wounds and unconscious beliefs that cause disconnection from self and others. Touch communicates presence and support and provides grounding to regulate the nervous system. With compassionate dialogue, movement, and imagery unexpressed emotional energy can be released allowing for greater ease, freedom, and peace. Empowered by self-awareness, conscious choices can be made to support the alignment of body, mind, and soul.
Sandtray Therapy is a powerful therapeutic technique for children and adults that involves a sandbox, called a sandtray, and a large collection of figurines. Clients arrange the figurines in the sandtray, recreating their inner world and bringing subconscious conflicts to consciousness. It is often said that sandplay therapy provides a "free and protected space" for exploration and healing.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) is a holistic approach to healing trauma or unhealthy attachment patterns formed in early childhood. It integrates the body and movement into traditional talk therapy to address and heal ongoing psychological and physical difficulties.
SE is a body-centered therapy that focuses on healing trauma through body awareness and movement. It aims to treat the physical symptoms of trauma and stress-related disorders.
Transpersonal therapy acknowledges and integrates the transcendent and spiritual dimensions of our human lives. It is a holistic therapeutic approach that considers the mind, the body, and the soul, encouraging clients to uncover a deeper meaning and purpose.
Trauma Informed Therapy understands and considers the pervasive nature of trauma and promotes environments of healing and recovery.
Unergi Body Psychotherapy is based on the belief that emotions and memories are stored in our physical selves and that our bodies often hold truths our hearts and minds may not be ready to acknowledge yet. The root causes of symptoms and illnesses are often early experiences that have long been locked away from our consciousness. These unexpressed feelings can create energy blockages. These can manifest as emotional imbalances (such as depression, anxiety or relationship issues) or in the form of physical imbalances (such as chronic pain, muscle tension, addiction and disease). Unergi, with its healing touch and talk, invites clients into a dialogue between the body and the mind to access buried emotions and memories. Through listening to our bodies, old wounds heal and new insights, inner peace and deep joy often emerge.
A mind-body practice that focuses on one's physical, emotional and mental health. Trauma-informed yoga is a form of yoga that offers a safe, supportive space where one can learn emotional regulation skills through connection with the breath and increased body awareness.
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