Therapeutic approach that helps individuals understand and deal with their emotions by teaching:

• acceptance;

• mindfulness and how to stay present;

• distress tolerance and emotion regulation;

• interpersonal skills.

Therapeutic approach that helps individuals recognize:

• thought patterns;

• how their beliefs and attitudes influence their emotions and actions.

The person centered therapeutic philosophy preaches acceptance for the client’s feelings, no matter what, and offers unconditional positive regard.

Attachment based therapeutic approaches work to strengthen and make secure the individual’s attachment style, by tackling that which the client either suppressed or overemphasized in early childhood relationships.

Influenced by the somatic experiencing modality, the client is encouraged to reconnect their body and mind through customized exercises.

By focusing on the body first, one learns to modify the pathways that created problematic cycles as a response to stress.

This underlying philosophy views individuals as resourceful and resilient when faced with hardship.

Clients are encouraged to rediscover and use their strengths to pull themselves out of adversity, as they have done in the past.

This approach is grounded in the understanding that trauma can impact an individual’s neurological, biological, psychological, and social development and functioning.

At its core, an individual’s response to trauma is driven by survival, even if that response later becomes problematic.

This approach seeks to empower individuals by acknowledging the impact of trauma.