Individual Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on understanding the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is a present-focused, skills-based treatment that helps clients identify patterns that may be contributing to distress and develop practical strategies to respond more effectively. CBT often includes in-session exercises and between-session practice to support new ways of thinking and behaving.

Behavioral Activation is an evidence-based treatment for depression. It focuses on increasing engagement in meaningful and rewarding activities to counter patterns of withdrawal and avoidance. The behavioral activation model suggests that life stressors (e.g., grief, trauma, chronic stress) can reduce access to positive reinforcement, which may contribute to depression. BA works to replace avoidant behaviors with intentional, value-consistent activities that improve mood and functioning over time.

DBT skills are a comprehensive, evidence-based set of practical techniques to help individuals manage overwhelming emotions, improve relationships, and build a life worth living. These skills are rooted in a balance (or "dialectic") between acceptance (acknowledging reality as it is) and change (taking active steps to improve thoughts, feelings, and actions). DBT is structured into four core skill modules—Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness—each designed to target specific challenges in emotional and behavioral control.

PMT helps guide parents through an evidence-based therapeutic approach that is effective in reducing aggression, defiance, and oppositional behavior. This intensely researched intervention provides parents with tools for creating lasting positive behavior changes, build a stronger, healthier relationship with their child, manage day-to-day parenting challenges with confidence, and address behavioral issues linked to ADHD, anxiety, and other conditions.   Specifically, parents will learn how to understand behavior, give effective commands, increase desirable behavior, and improve communication. 

Adults with ADHD will learn how improve organization and planning, manage distractibility, avoid procrastination, and think in more helpful ways to make decisions and dispute negative thoughts.  With STAND, teens who struggle with attention, motivation, and organization (and their parents) work as a team to decide what is important to them and what kind of family member they want to be.  Then, they work with their therapist so that the teen becomes more independent, motivated, and responsible and the parents feel less stressed, more in control, and more balanced as a parent.