Approaches & Specialties

EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a structured therapy designed to help the brain process difficult or distressing experiences that may still feel emotionally active in the present.

It can be especially helpful when you understand something logically but still find yourself reacting to it emotionally or physically. EMDR may support people working through trauma, painful memories, anxiety, negative beliefs, grief, relationship experiences, or other events that continue to influence how they feel today.

The goal is not to erase what happened, but to help the experience feel less overwhelming and have less control over your present.

The Gottman Method is a research-informed approach to couples therapy focused on strengthening connection, improving communication, and helping partners manage conflict in healthier ways.

Rather than trying to eliminate disagreement entirely, Gottman Method Couples Therapy helps couples understand the patterns they fall into during conflict and develop practical tools for responding differently.

This approach may include strengthening friendship and intimacy, improving communication, increasing emotional connection, repairing after conflict, and helping each partner better understand the other's needs.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, commonly called CBT, explores the connection between your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

Sometimes the way we interpret a situation can intensify anxiety, self-doubt, frustration, or other difficult emotions. CBT helps you identify patterns in your thinking, question beliefs that may no longer be serving you, and experiment with more helpful ways of responding.

It is often a practical, goal-oriented approach and may be especially useful for anxiety, depression, stress, perfectionism, low self-esteem, and unhelpful behavioral patterns.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps you build a different relationship with difficult thoughts and emotions rather than constantly trying to eliminate or avoid them.

The goal is not to never feel anxious, sad, uncertain, or uncomfortable. Instead, ACT can help you make room for those experiences while still moving toward the relationships, values, and goals that matter to you.

This approach often focuses on mindfulness, psychological flexibility, self-awareness, and identifying what you want your life to stand for.

The relationships we experience throughout our lives can shape the way we understand ourselves and connect with other people.

Attachment and relational therapy explore how earlier experiences may influence present-day patterns involving trust, closeness, conflict, boundaries, vulnerability, or fear of rejection.

By noticing these patterns within a safe therapeutic relationship, you can begin developing healthier and more flexible ways of relating to yourself and others.

Interpersonal neurobiology looks at the relationship between the brain, nervous system, emotions, and our connections with other people.

Our experiences and relationships can influence the way our brain and nervous system respond to stress, safety, and connection. Understanding those responses can help make reactions that once felt confusing or automatic feel more understandable.

This perspective can be especially useful when exploring trauma, emotional regulation, attachment, relationships, and the ways past experiences continue to influence the present.

Polyvagal-informed therapy focuses on understanding how the nervous system responds to stress, threat, safety, and connection.

You may notice times when your body moves quickly into anxiety, tension, anger, shutdown, numbness, or a desire to escape—even when you consciously know you are safe.

A polyvagal-informed approach can help you recognize these nervous system responses, understand what may trigger them, and build strategies that support greater regulation and a stronger sense of safety in your body.

Emotional regulation doesn't mean never feeling strong emotions. It means becoming better able to recognize, understand, and respond to those emotions without becoming completely overwhelmed by them.

Mindfulness and emotional regulation skills can help you slow down your reactions, become more aware of what you're experiencing, and create space between an emotion and your response.

These tools may be especially helpful for anxiety, stress, emotional overwhelm, conflict, impulsive reactions, or difficulty calming down once activated

Healthy relationships depend on being able to communicate what you need while also respecting the needs and boundaries of others.

Therapy can help you become more comfortable expressing yourself clearly, setting limits, navigating difficult conversations, and responding to conflict without automatically becoming defensive, shutting down, or giving in.

These skills can support healthier relationships with partners, family members, friends, coworkers, and even yourself.

The goal is not to become more confrontational. It is to communicate with greater clarity, confidence, and respect.