We can help you to...
Reduce self-destructive habits
Manage difficult emotions
Develop self-regard
Become more present in daily life
Increase awareness of future aspirations
Create habits organized by these aspirations
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Life is fraught with challenges and uncertainty. ACT aims to assist us in managing these challenges, whether they be troubling thoughts, emotions or memories, in ways that enable us to pursue those things we deem most important.
This challenges traditional approaches to our suffering by questioning the notion that control, and change is the answer to all our problems. While control may not be a problem, when it comes to suffering it is definitely not the solution.
ACT is effective for a wide variety of problems, including anxiety and depression. It emphasizes mindfulness, acceptance and values clarification as a means of helping us develop a more meaningful life.
Through ACT, together we will:
- Consider what has and has not worked in your effort to manage your emotional pain
- Recognize what you truly value and want your life to be about
- Identify specific steps you can take to move toward your goals and values
Contextually Focused-Dialectical Behavior Therapy (C-DBT)
All too often, we live our lives in reaction to our past and struggle with problems that arise from our attempts to cope with it. In spite of our best efforts, we can become entangled in a cycle of anxiety and depression. This is what we call chronic distress. Contextually Focused-Dialectical Behavior Therapy (C-DBT) is modified version of DBT based in more recent research. Its aim is to assist us in freeing ourselves from this cycle via mindfulness principles.
This approach recognizes that healing and growth occurs in relationships in which we sense that we matter. In this caring context, we learn to:
- Increase our awareness of triggers to ineffective behaviors
- Practice more flexible ways of coping in the face of these triggers, and
- Organize our behaviors based on our future aspirations.
Clinical Activities Offered
A Behavioral Process Group
Individual Therapy
Telephone Consultation
This combination provides participants with the resources to manage their specific target behaviors, receive tailored support, and experience coaching in moments of distress. Participants commit to attend and engage in both a weekly skills group (90 minutes) and individual therapy (60 minutes) and utilize telephone skills coaching, as needed.
For many persons who have participated in C-DBT, engaging in these processes has empowered them to make a transition from a preoccupation with their past and their problems to a life directed by their values.
Together, we will work with you to develop freedom from familiar ways of coping so you can have the freedom to pursue a meaningful life.