If you have been trying the same old habits to approach your challenges and nothing seems to be working; it is time to change up the approach. If a star athlete gets injured but keeps trying to play in the game, he or she is only going to be able to perform at half speed and potentially further cause damage. If the star athlete performs the needed physical therapy to the injury, then he or she can heal and be ready to perform at their best. 

The same is true for psychotherapy and your well-being. If the stressors of life have beat you down, then it is time to do some therapy to get you performing at your best self. 

Psychotherapy can help with:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Stress management
• Panic attacks
• Phobias
• Obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD)
• Other behavioral compulsions
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Substance abuse
• Chronic pain
• Compulsive eating
• Sexual concerns
• Anger management

How does Psychotherapy work?:

The first couple of sessions I do an assessment of where do you visualize your life at by the end of therapy. I will then look to see when you think about moving to your goals, what thoughts, emotions and sensations come up and get in the way. These different “parts” of you then become the focus in ongoing sessions. I often will get the origins of where you started to experience the various ways of thinking or reacting. 

I then work with you on building your internal strengths and allowing your most resourceful side of you to help navigate any internal struggles from various thoughts or emotions. I will also go back with you and work to unburden anything from the past you still may be carrying with you in the present moment. More neuroscience currently shows us that psychotherapy actually “re-hardwires” the brain and how it is processing stress. This allows greater connection between the different parts of your brain and allows you to be working more effective.

People like to ask what approaches of psychotherapy do I use or am I influenced by? I was orginally trained in the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) school of thought. A lot of the research has even backed CBT for being very effective for treating a majority of mental health concerns. CBT emphasizes that we start to improve our mood by shifting how we are thinking and responding to the circumstances in our life. 

I was later trained in various “parts work” therapies such as Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS). These types of therapies hold the belief that we have a lot of various parts to ourselves. We all can recognize the parts of ourself we do not like, hold burdens, or cause trouble in our life. Our mind can start to heal if someone comes in the internal system of our mind and lead the various parts towards growth. Think of a team that is works cohesively together under strong leadership. Ultimately, the therapy helps you access the best version of You and allows this authentic self be the central figure in leading internal growth. 

This approach in therapy is backed by the neuroscience that we have different regions in the brain that all work for different functions. Different parts of the brian may move out of their natural roles depending on how you had to adapt to what life through your way. The therapy focuses on how to move parts of you back to their natural and healed roles internally. 

If you have any questions, I would be glad to do a 20 minute consultation call to see if you think psychotherapy would be a good fit for what you are looking for. 

“For I take delight in the law of God, in my inmost self, but I see my members another principle at war with the law of my mind, taking me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.” Romans 7:22-23.