Therapeutic Modalities and Approach

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I recognize that we cannot automatically change our feelings. Instead, CBT helps you explore how your thoughts and behaviors contribute to the emotions you experience.

➤ CBT involves identifying negative or distorted thoughts, challenging unhelpful beliefs, and practicing small, intentional shifts in behavior and thinking.

Sometimes, what we need most are practical skills we can reach for in difficult moments, these are our DBT skills.  DBT skills empower you to face challenges with greater stability, clarity, and confidence. 

➤ DBT involves learning and practicing specific skills for mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.

EMDR is a powerful, evidence-based approach that helps the brain reprocess distressing or traumatic memories in a safe, guided way.  By reducing the emotional intensity of these memories, EMDR supports deep healing and allows you to move forward without feeling stuck in your past experiences. 

➤EMDR involves bilateral stimulation (such as guided eye movements or tapping) to help the brain reprocess traumatic memories at a safe pace, creating new, healthier associations.

Brainspotting allows you to access and release trauma stored deep in the body and nervous system, reducing emotional distress and physical tension. It supports healing in areas where talk therapy alone may not reach. 

➤ Brainspotting involves locating specific eye positions—or “spots”—that connect to unprocessed trauma, allowing deeper emotional and somatic processing to occur.

Mindfulness helps you slow down, reduce anxiety, regulate emotions, and develop greater self-compassion. It builds resilience and allows you to respond to challenges with clarity instead of reactivity.

➤ Mindfulness involves practicing grounding strategies, breath awareness, and non-judgmental attention to the present moment, both in and outside of sessions.

My approach to ADHD treatment is neuroaffirming, which means I do not see ADHD as a flaw to be fixed but as a different way of experiencing and processing the world. Neuroaffirming care helps you embrace your unique ways of thinking, reduce shame, and build strategies that work for your brain. It fosters self-acceptance and authentic living. 

➤ Neuroaffirming care involves supporting neurodiversity by focusing on strengths, identity, and individualized strategies for thriving.

Change is not always straightforward, and sometimes it can feel uncomfortable or even unwanted. In my practice, I see resistance not as a flaw but as valuable information about where you are in your journey. Motivational Interviewing allows us to approach resistance with respect and curiosity, not judgment. 

➤ MI involves collaborative conversations where we focus on your strengths, values, and readiness for change, empowering you to move forward at your own pace.

The attachment-related patterns we develop in childhood—whether secure or insecure—often continue into adulthood, influencing how we trust, connect, and respond in relationships. In therapy, I use an attachment-informed lens to help you understand your attachment style and how it may be impacting your current relationships and sense of self. 

➤ Attachment-based therapy involves exploring how early relationships shape current patterns or beliefs (maladaptive schemas) and creating new relational experiences that support connection, trust, and healing.

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is a highly effective therapy for treating OCD and anxiety.  ERP teaches your brain that you can tolerate uncertainty and distress without relying on old patterns. 

➤ ERP involves gradually and safely exposing you to feared situations or thoughts, while practicing new ways of responding that break the cycle of avoidance and compulsions.