Psychotherapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Focuses on exploring relationships among a person's thoughts, feelings and behaviors. A therapist will actively work with a person to uncover unhealthy patterns of thought and how they may be causing self-destructive behaviors and beliefs.

Interpersonal Therapy

Focuses on the relationships a person has with others, with a goal of improving the person's interpersonal skills. In this form of psychotherapy, the therapist helps people evaluate their social interactions and recognize negative patterns, like social isolation or aggression, and ultimately helps them learn strategies for understanding and interacting positively with others. Often used to treat depression.

Therapy Pets

Spending time with domestic animals can reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, fatigue and pain for many people

Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT)

can bring long-term improvement to people with BPD, according to randomized clinical trials. It's a kind of psychotherapy that engages and exercises the important skill called mentalizing. Mentalizing refers to the intuitive process that gives us a sense of self. When people consciously perceive and understand their own inner feelings and thoughts, it's mentalizing. People also use mentalizing to perceive the behavior of others and to speculate about their feelings and thoughts. Mentalizing thus plays an essential role in helping us connect with other people.

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

to recognize negative patterns of behavior and feeling that are rooted in past experiences and resolve them. This type of therapy often uses open-ended questions and free association so that people have the opportunity to discuss whatever is on their minds. The therapist then works with the person to sift through these thoughts and identify unconscious patterns of negative behavior or feelings and how they have been caused or influenced by past experiences and unresolved feelings.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

was originally developed to treat chronically suicidal individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Over time, has been adapted to treat people with multiple different mental illnesses, but most people who are treated with it have BPD as a primary diagnosis. It emphasizes validation, or accepting uncomfortable thoughts, feelings and behaviors instead of struggling with them. By having an individual come to terms with the troubling thoughts, emotions or behaviors that they struggle with, change no longer appears impossible and they can work with their therapist to create a gradual plan for recovery.

Exposure Therapy

A type of cognitive behavioral therapy that is most frequently used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder and phobias. During treatment, a person works with a therapist to identify the triggers of their anxiety and learn techniques to avoid performing rituals or becoming anxious when they are exposed to them. The person then confronts whatever triggers them in a controlled environment where they can safely practice implementing these strategies.

Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)

Used to treat PTSD. It replaces negative emotional reactions to difficult memories with less-charged or positive reactions or beliefs. Performing a series of back and forth, repetitive eye movements for 20-30 seconds can help individuals change these emotional reactions.