Treatment Modalities

I have received training in various therapy modalities. Throughout our sessions, we will work together to determine the most suitable treatment plan to meet your needs.

For Generalized Anxiety I predominantly utilize Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT. CBT is a therapeutic intervention which puts you, the client, in the role of being an active participant in your treatment journey. It states that thoughts lead to feelings which lead to behaviors and is the standard therapy for anxiety treatments. CBT is an active therapy and requires you to be present minded, open to change, as well as some minimal homework in between sessions to help with changes to your feelings.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder can be treated with a few different treatment options. Those being ERP and I-CBT:

Exposure and Response Prevention, also called ERP, is utilized for those who have intrusive thoughts and may tend to perform a ritual, or compulsion, in order to silence the thoughts. ERP hopes to extinguish the compulsion by slowly moving up a hierarchy of challenges to face fears. People notice that the anxiety does increase during an exposure, but the bodily chemicals causing anxiety do decrease after a sustained response. I have been trained by the IOCDF and completed the BTTI training certificate for OCD.

Inference Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT) Inference-Based Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (I-CBT) is an evidence-based treatment based on the central idea that obsessions are abnormal doubts or inferences about what “could be”, or “might be” (e.g. “I might have left the stove on”; “I might be contaminated”; “I might be a deviant”). According to this approach, obsessional inferences of doubt arise as the result of an inductive reasoning narrative characterized by an over-reliance on the imagination and a distrust of the senses. In particular, the reasoning distortions contained in obsessional narratives often camouflage the fact that there is no real basis in reality for obsessional doubt leading to a confusion between reality and imagination. As a result, obsessions are able to persist and can never be resolved with compulsions. (Frederick Aardema, PhD)

I am also trained in utilizing Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is an evidenced-based form of psychotherapy that utilizes back and forth eye movements to help clients address common problems such as depression, anxiety, phobias, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). ART is a very focused and effective eye movement therapy and, as such, has produced quick, effective and safe results in treating anxiety, depression, phobias, relationship issues, and grief.

Together, we can find the best treatment modality for your presenting problems and issues. Please reach out to schedule a free 15 minute phone consultation to see if my practice would be a good fit for you.