This is a list of both evidenced based therapies and somatic therapies that I use in my practice.
ACT- Acceptance and commitment-ACT’s main philosophy, healing comes from accepting your emotions rather than trying to eliminate them. ACT’ s exercises help with anxiety, depression, and emotional distress by teaching acceptance of complicated feelings as part of life. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) operates by accepting difficult thoughts and feelings, defusing thoughts, practicing mindfulness, figuring out personal values, and taking committed actions despite challenges.
AF-EMDR- ( Attachment Focused EMDR) It is a non-directive type of counseling that is very gentle and focuses on exploring feelings, earlier experiences, thoughts, and behaviors in a compassionate and non-threatening manner. AF-EMDR incorporates attachment-repair orientation to all phases of EMDR work. EMDR~ The goal of EMDR is to reduce the long-lasting effects of distressing memories by engaging the brain's natural adaptive information processing mechanisms thereby relieving present symptoms. The therapy includes having the patient recall distressing images while receiving one of several types of bilateral sensory input, such as side to side eye movements, listening to binaural tones and side to side tapping.
Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM) is a neuro-biologically based trauma treatment model which facilitates targeting of traumatic experiences by bridging the most primitive aspects of the person and their brain, to their purest, healthiest part of the self. This bridge catalyzes the mind and body to access all forms of emotional trauma and stress by utilizing layers of internal resources such as attachment neurobiology, breathwork skills, somatic resources, our connection to the natural world, toning and sacred geometry, and one’s relationship with self, intuition, and higher consciousness. This method also addresses ego states and parts that are being activated and are carrying the behavioral responses to trauma in dissociative ways. The potential for clearing neurobiological debris from the nervous system and freeing the behavioral responses to trauma clears the way for positive neuro-plasticity and personal expansion whether that is seen as spiritual or otherwise, and which is separate from one’s history of pain and woundedness. This model provides profound and lasting relief at the deepest level.
CBT- Cognitive Behavior Therapy is a common type of talk therapy (psychotherapy). CBT helps you become aware of inaccurate or negative thinking so you can view challenging situations more clearly and respond to them in a more effective way.
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) is a trauma psychology which aims to access and process traumatic experiences by tracking the original sequence of physiological responses that occurred when the deep brain, ( brain stem) has been alerted to a threat or attachment disruption. This part of the brain is rapidly online in situations of danger or survival terror. This very powerful therapy aims to support the deepest part of our brain to access trauma before affect is created and meaning making takes place.
Narrative Therapy is a form of counseling that views people as separate from their problems. This allows clients to get some distance from the issue to see how it might actually be helping them, or protecting them, more than it is hurting them. This technique also focuses on the forgotten strengths and inner resources that might have been sidelined. This theory helps change the “Story” of one’s experience into a living narrative of renewed awarenesses of strength and resilience.
Positive Psychology is the scientific study of the strengths that enable individuals and communities to thrive. The field is founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, to cultivate what is best within themselves, and to enhance their experiences of love, work, and play.
REBT- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy -A type of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that helps people identify and change irrational thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that can lead to negative emotions or behaviors. It's based on the idea that people are not emotionally disturbed by events, but by how they interpret those events through their beliefs, language, and philosophies. REBT can help people with a variety of issues, including depression, anxiety, phobias, and sleep problems. In therapy, a therapist will help patients identify irrational beliefs and thought patterns, and then develop strategies to replace them with more rational ones.
Somatic Experiencing (SE)~ is based on the understanding that symptoms of trauma, cognitive behavior therapy, are the result of a dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). The ANS’s inherent capacity to self-regulate is undermined by physical traumatic experiences which inhibits the return to a homostatic state of well being. The goal of this therapy is aimed at relieving the symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental and physical trauma-related health problems by focusing on the client's perceived body sensations (or somatic experiences).