In counseling, one size does not fit all, therefore, multiple approaches are utilized to explore your concerns and move toward resolution.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy? (CBT)
This is a traditional style of counseling that helps people problem-solve. CBT reveals the relationship between beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and the behaviors that follow. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has been demonstrated to be effective for a range of problems including depression, anxiety disorders, problems with addiction, marital problems, and mental illness. Numerous research studies suggest that CBT leads to significant improvement in functioning and quality of life.
Dialectic Behavior Therapy
“Dialectical” means combining opposite ideas. DBT focuses on helping people accept the reality of their lives and their behaviors that may create difficulty with family, friends, or co-workers. This approach helps people learn to change their lives, including their unhelpful behaviors. Rather than depending on efforts that cause problems for the person, DBT helps people learn healthier ways to cope. DBT can be very effective with depression, anxiety, borderline tendencies, PTSD, and other mood disorders.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT teaches mindfulness skills to help individuals live and behave in ways consistent with personal values while developing psychological flexibility. This approach helps individuals recognize ways in which their attempts to suppress, manage, and control emotional experiences create challenges. By recognizing and addressing these challenges, individuals can become better able to make room for values-based actions that support well-being.
Analytic Psychology
This approach is based on the work of Swiss psychiatrist, C. G. Jung. Analytic psychology is the analysis of the human psyche, the unconscious, as well as conscious components of the mind. In addition, this approach focuses on the role of symbols, spiritual experiences, dreams, the unconscious, and the collective unconscious to better understand our behaviors and motives. This approach aims to bring the unconscious (what we don’t want to look at or repress) into the conscious mind. This is identified as Individuation, or being more integrated with the “Self”.
Evolutionary Psychology
Humans are emotionally complex. The science of Evolutionary psychology seeks to explain how our emotions and other aspects of being human served as advantages to our ancestors, but may not be so useful in the modern world. This approach can be helpful in understanding workplace competition, sexual strategies, domestic violence, fear, anxiety, PTSD, and many aspects of social behavior.