Theraputic Approaches We Use

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a way of working with the fight you have been having with your own thoughts, so you can get on with what matters.

Anti-oppressive practice is a way of working with distress that has been treated as a personal defect when a lot of it was never only personal.

Attachment-Based Therapy is a way of working with what your earliest bonds taught you about closeness, and how that still shapes your relationships today.

Brief Solution Focused Therapy is a way of working with a problem by spending most of the time on where you want to get to.

Brief Strategic Family Therapy is a way of working with a child or teen's behaviour by treating the family pattern around it as the client.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a way of working with the loop between what you think, how you feel, and what you do next, using practical skills you can test.

Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) is a structured way of working with the beliefs a traumatic experience left behind, so the event stops running how you see yourself.

Compassionate Inquiry is a way of working with the reactions you cannot explain, the ones that arrive too fast and too large for the situation in front of you.

Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is a way of working with the part of you that's hardest on yourself, by building the skill of being on your own side.

Culturally responsive therapy is a way of working with distress that does not treat your culture, identity, and history as background.

Dialectical behaviour therapy is a way of working with emotions that feel too big to ride, the kind that spike, take over, and leave you dealing with the aftermath.

Emotionally focused family therapy is a way of working with the distance that opens up at home when everyone is protecting themselves.

Emotionally focused therapy is couples therapy for the bond between you and your partner, when it has started to feel like a cycle instead of a refuge.

Emotionally focused therapy tapping is a way of working with a feeling that still hijacks you, by combining focused attention on that feeling with tapping on acupressure points.

Existential therapy is a way of working with the uneasy feeling that your life no longer quite belongs to you, and with questions of meaning, choice, and purpose.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a way of working with memories that still feel as if they are happening now, using guided eye movements.

Family systems therapy is a way of working with trouble that never quite stays inside one person, by looking at the patterns between the people around them.

Feminist therapy is a way of working with distress that has been treated as a personal failing when a lot of it was trained into you.

Gestalt therapy is a way of working with the parts of your experience you have learned to skip over, the feeling that arrives and then gets managed before you ever really meet it.

Gottman Method is a way of working with the fights that keep looping, and with the quiet that grows when those fights stop solving anything.

Hypnotherapy is a way of working with habits, fears, and patterns that talking has not been able to shift on its own, using guided focus and relaxation.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a way of working with the conflicting parts of you that don't agree on what you need, so they stop pulling you apart.

Interpersonal Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT) is a way of working with mood that keeps slipping when your days lose their shape, using steadier routines and relationship work.

Interpersonal Therapy is a way of working with the low mood that shows up when a relationship, a role, or a loss has stopped making sense.

Mindfulness-based therapy is a way of working with a mind that lives anywhere except right here, by training present-moment attention.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a way of working with stress that has taken up residence in your body as well as your thoughts.

Motivational Interviewing is a way of working with the mixed feelings that stall a change you partly want, so the reasons to change come from you.

Narrative Therapy is a way of working with the story that has started to stand in for who you are, so the problem stops being the only author.

Polyvagal-informed therapy is a way of working with the automatic shifts in your body that you can't think your way out of.

Prolonged Exposure is a way of working with the memories and situations you have been organizing your life around avoiding.

Psychedelic integration is a way of working with what is left after a psychedelic experience, so the insight or the aftershock does not fade unread.

Psychodynamic therapy is a way of working with the patterns you keep repeating even when you can see them coming, and how earlier relationships shaped them.

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy is a way of working with the rigid rules you live under, the inner legislation that says you must not fail.

Schema Therapy is a way of working with the long-standing themes that started early and still run the present, in how you relate to yourself and others.

Self-compassion therapy is a way of working with the reflex to turn on yourself when something goes wrong, so you can meet it with the warmth you'd offer a friend.

Solution-focused therapy is a way of working with the stuckness that comes from talking about a problem until the problem is all you can see.

Somatic therapy is a way of working with the tension, numbness, or restlessness that talking never quite reaches, using breath, grounding, and paced attention.

Strength-based therapy is a way of working with the habit of defining yourself by what is going wrong, by building on the skills and supports you already have.

Trauma-focused therapy is a way of working with the after-effects of something that overwhelmed your capacity to cope at the time.

Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT) is a structured way of working with the memories, thoughts, and avoidance that follow trauma, for teens and their caregivers.

Voice of the Child is a way of working with the gap between a child's lived experience and the version of it that adults carry into decisions.