Comprehensive Offerings
OCD TREATMENT
OCD treatment consists of two main components: Inference Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT) and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). I-CBT is a modern, specific approach to OCD treatment. While ERP is the classic behavioral treatment for OCD, I-CBT is a cognitive treatment used to address the faulty obsessional reasoning process of OCD. Clients will learn what OCD is, how their obsessional doubts are being constructed and how to return to normal reasoning through resolution of doubt. Clients will learn to trust their sense data including their sense of self. I-CBTis an approximate four month program that includes power-points and handouts to support client's learning and change. My clients and I have found I-CBT highly effective and an enormous contribution to OCD treatment.
ERP is also used to help client's face their fears in order to assist the brain in learning that while the sensations of anxiety may be uncomfortable, they are not dangerous and anxiety provoking obsessions will decrease once non-avoidance of fear occurs and compulsions are not engaged with.
Mindfulness techniques are embedded in both I-CBT and ERP treatments​.
Goals/outcomes of treatment include decrease in obsessions, compulsions, anxiety, guilt, disgust, avoidance, resolution of doubt, increase in sense of self and improved quality of life.
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Anxiety treatment
The CDC reports anxiety and depression are the most common mental health challenges experience by adults in the US. While anxiety is a nervous system response, persistent anxiety can debilitate your mind and body and lead to a constricted way of being. I utilize a variety of techniques including TEAM-Cogntive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness practices, as well as nervous system/stress response psychoeducation to help client's change their relationship with fear, worry, panic, stress and avoidance. These techniques incorporate various concepts including changing thoughts to impact feelings and behavior, skill development including emotional regulation and distress tolerance, as well as working with, not against, the systems and sensations of your body.
Goals/outcomes of treatment can include decrease in avoidance, tension, fear, panic, worry, increase in problem solving, nervous system regulation and improved quality of life.
Trauma Recovery
Trauma is the loss of self. It is overwhelm resulting when stressors are larger than our resources. I help clients return to themselves utilizing Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), Internal Family System Informed (IFS-informed), and CBT, including guilt reduction CBT. Clients learn to respond differently to their trauma memories through shifts in thoughts, sensations, beliefs and ways in which they relate to themselves.
Goal/outcomes of treatment can include decrease in avoidance, flashbacks, negative mood and increase in adaptive coping, balanced thought and connection to sense of self.