Therapy Modalities and Focuses

I provide care to older teens, couples, and adults across all life stages. My approach integrates a variety of evidence-based including:

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Focuses on the connection between our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In CBT, clients learn to identify unhelpful thinking patterns, challenge them, and replace them with realistic, healthy thoughts. This approach is structured, goal-oriented, and practical. It helps clients build coping skills, reduce anxiety and depression, and create lasting changes in how they respond to stress.

Solution-Focused Therapy: This is a brief, strengths-based approach that emphasizes what is going well and what clients want to change moving forward. Instead of spending extensive time exploring the past, this therapy helps clients identify practical steps, small successes, and existing strengths that can move them toward their goals. SFT empowers clients to make meaningful, realistic changes by focusing on solutions rather than problems.

Christian Counseling: Christian Counseling integrates faith-based principles with evidence-based therapeutic practices. This approach incorporates Scripture, prayer (if desired), and a Biblical worldview to support emotional, relational, and spiritual healing. Clients are invited to explore how their faith can strengthen them, guide their decisions, and help them navigate life’s challenges. The goal is to help you experience freedom, restoration, and renewed purpose rooted in God’s truth.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): This is an evidence-based therapy designed to help individuals process and heal from traumatic experiences. Through guided bilateral stimulation—such as eye movements, tapping, or sounds—clients are able to reprocess distressing memories in a way that reduces emotional intensity and helps the brain integrate the experience more adaptively. EMDR can be highly effective for PTSD, anxiety, and trauma-related symptoms and often leads to meaningful emotional relief.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Dialectical Behavior Therapy helps individuals manage intense emotions, improve relationships, and build healthier coping skills. DBT combines acceptance and change, helping clients validate their emotions while also learning new ways to respond. Core skill areas include mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. This approach is especially supportive for clients who feel overwhelmed by emotions or struggle with impulsive behaviors.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)/Informed Parts Work: IFS and Parts Work help clients understand their internal world by viewing the mind as made up of different “parts”—each with its own emotions, beliefs, and roles. Instead of trying to eliminate these parts, therapy focuses on helping clients develop compassion and curiosity toward them. Through this process, clients learn to lead from their calm, centered “Self” and support wounded or protective parts in healing. IFS can be deeply transformative, especially for trauma, self-criticism, and long-standing emotional patterns.