Individual Therapy is a collaborative investment between you and your therapist to help you identify, navigate, and overcome what may be troubling you, or interfering with your ability to thrive.
We offer individual therapy for children, adolescents, and adults. Our therapists are highly trained and experienced in a variety of clinical modalities and effective healing practices to best meet your needs. We prioritize the therapeutic relationship, and treat clients as human-beings rather than problems to be fixed. Typical clients in outpatient private practice settings are capable or keeping themselves relatively safe - we are not an emergency or acute care facility.
You may learn more about each therapist and their areas of focus by visiting our providers page.
Child and Adolescent Counseling, is collaborative and experiential. We understand that children and teens do not have the lived experience of adults, therefore, don't rely on the same modes of communicating and expressing themselves. They also process and interpret their emotional, mental, physical, and interpersonal experiences differently.
Considering these factors, our child and adolescent therapists are trained and experienced in utilizing experiential and non-verbal communication, like play, art, movement, and imagination, in addition to verbal language. By tapping into the creative processes, we can help our young clients access emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and interactions on an age-appropriate and effective level. Realistic goals may include skills-building, behavioral change, emotion regulation, improved executive function and intentional focus, and healthy, more connected relationships.
Since parents and caregivers play such an major role in the lives of children and adolescents, they can be an integral part of their therapy as well. We offer and encourage Family Consultations to supplement your child's growth and development.
Relationship and Couples Therapy offers a safe space for vulnerability, curiosity, communication, and connection. Partners find their way to therapy for many reasons. Whether you're experiencing challenges in communication, connection, intimacy, sex, infidelity, trauma, or simply wanting to improve your relationship in some way, this type of therapy can be a helpful and effective and effective step toward improving and enriching your relationship.
One common misunderstanding about couples therapy is that a relationship has to be bad, ruptured, or on the verge of ending before needing help. It doesn't have to be bad to get better. Many couples choose to improve areas of discord or difficulty before they become problematic; think of this as preventative health for your relationship.
Our approach to relationship and couples therapy includes Emotionally Focused Therapy, Mindfulness-Informed Psychotherapy, Polyvagal Theory, and Attachment Theory. We join you as a couple to help you reach your goals, whether reuniting better than ever, amicably separating, coparenting, or ethical non-monogamy.
Specialized Areas...
Trauma, PTSD, & Life-altering Experiences
We offer a variety of evidenced-based approaches to help you reclaim your life following traumatic and adverse experiences, and prioritize your place in it as a survivor rather than a victim. Methods include: EMDR, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Polyvagal Theory, Expressive Arts Therapy. Go to our Providers pages to learn more about these methods, and which of our therapists offer them.
Art Therapy & Expressive Arts Therapies
Art Therapy, Art as therapy, and Expressive Arts Therapies are methods specially equipped to activate the creative process, beyond language, to help you integrate experiences, regulate emotions and behaviors, improve intentional focus and attention, increase healthy expression of emotions, thoughts, needs, and connection. These are evidenced-based methods shown to be effective in treating depression, anxiety, ADHD, psychological trauma, behavioral and interpersonal issues.
Men's Health
Due to generations of social conditioning, epigenetics, unrealistic expectations, and deep wiring, men may experience, interpret, and express emotions differently, sometimes less comfortably and confidently, than others. Vulnerability is sometimes conflated with weakness or danger, therefore, avoided. Unfortunately, the energy placed in avoidance leaves us feeling depleted, disconnected, unfulfilled, and sometimes dissociated. Our approach to working with men is to welcome you as you are - without judgment, shame, or expectations of perfection. By understanding where you are, where you've come from, and where you're trying to go through a lens of curiosity and compassion, we can help you achieve the changes you want without needing to overcomplicate the process.
Perinatal & Postpartum Mental Health
Being pregnant and having a child changes lives. Since no two experiences are the same, we cannot expect that anyone "should" feel a certain way during pregnancy nor the early months and years of being a parent. There are so many new experiences, that one can become overwhelmed, depressed, hopeless, anxious, or detached from self and others. This does not have to be a norm you are stuck in, nor something you just "get over." This area of focus includes specialized training to help moms-to-be, new parents, and grieving parents navigate through the tough times to make space for good ones in healthy and sustainable ways. Postpartum depression and perinatal mental health are under-recognized and under-served areas of this field. We are here to help you. To learn more, click here, or visit Elise Ramia's page.
Mindfulness Practices
Mindfulness has become a buzz word these days. What this actually means in therapy is helping our clients bring intentional and focused awareness to the present moment - identifying and navigating the facts of what is happening, rather than the ominous and ever-growing stories that we create about ourselves, others, the future, etc. The past is important and informative. The future often requires planning and realistic expectations. However, the only place we live, and have agency is in the present. Learn from your past, plan for your future, live in the present. Though meditation, yoga, and breathwork are important avenues for reaching mindfulness, they are not mindfulness in and of themselves. Our therapists utilize methods to help you in real-time, as well as achieve meaningful and sustainable long-term changes through depth work.
Alcohol and Substance Use Counseling
If you are noticing that your relationship with alcohol and/or substances has become problematic or toxic, it's time to act. Our approach is to help you truly understand the parts of you who use these substances and why. Shame and judgment are not helpful, nor are they a part of our methods for helping you. Maybe you need to create better boundaries in your relationship to alcohol or marijuana. Maybe you need to eliminate substances from your life all together. This can be a heavy and difficult process - you don't have to carry this burden alone. We have clinicians specializing in helping you reclaim your life from substances and alcohol, strengthen your interpersonal relationships that may have been wounded or ruptured, and develop a healthier lifestyle to sustain the liberation you achieve.