Evidence-Based Therapy

Acceptance and commitment therapy is an action-oriented approach to psychotherapy that stems from traditional behavior therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. Clients learn to stop avoiding, denying, and struggling with their inner emotions and, instead, accept that these deeper feelings are appropriate responses to certain situations that should not prevent them from moving forward in their lives. With this understanding, clients begin to accept their issues and hardships and commit to making necessary changes in their behavior, regardless of what is going on in their lives, and how they feel about it.

CCPT is a developmentally responsive, play-based mental health intervention for young children ages 3 to 10 who are experiencing social, emotional, behavioral and relational disorders. CCPT utilizes play, the natural language of children, and therapeutic relationship to provide a safe, consistent therapeutic environment in which a child can experience full acceptance, empathy, and understanding from the counselor and process inner experiences and feelings through play and symbols. In CCPT, a child’s experience within the counseling relationship is the factor that is most healing and meaningful in creating lasting, positive change. The goal of CCPT is to unleash the child’s potential to move toward integration and self-enhancing ways of being. Child outcomes following CCPT include decreased symptomatic behaviors and improvement in overall functioning.

CBT is an evidenced-based therapy method which focuses on solutions and requires the clients to take an active role in their recovery. CBT is used across most diagnoses but is particularly effective with depression and anxiety based disorders. CBT explores the harmful thoughts and emotions a patient may have that exacerbate their symptoms. CBT encourages the clients to challenge their assumptions, change their thinking patterns, and improve their behavior with positive changes and outlooks. Clients who undergo CBT sessions with a trained therapist have the lowest rates of relapse amongst depression clients who do not utilize CBT in their treatment plan.

The Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) is a flexible therapeutic framework in which patient and provider work together to assess the patient’s suicidal risk and use that information to plan and manage suicide-specific, “driver-oriented” treatment. The framework fundamentally involves a participant’s engagement and cooperation in assessing and managing suicidal thoughts and behaviors and the therapist’s understanding of the patient’s suicidal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

EMDR) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes in order to move forward in their lives.

MRT is a cognitive behavioral intervention being used in 50 states and 7 countries to treat co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders. MRT has been proven to increase life purpose, increase moral decision-making, increase medication adherence and decrease risk-taking behaviors, substance abuse, and recidivism.

The Nurturing Parent Program is an 8-week course for parents of children 3 to 6 years old who want to find ways to interact positively with their children to raise respectful and cooperative children without spanking. Goal is to provide positive parenting skills to increase parents confidence and reduce parenting stress to help children learn to make good choices and be appropriately independent as they grow.

SBIRT allows for the early identification of substance use issues to improve outcomes by referral to appropriate treatment. Screening quickly assesses the severity of substance use and identifies the appropriate level of treatment. Brief intervention focuses on increasing insight and awareness regarding substance use and motivation toward behavioral change. Referral to treatment provides those identified as needing more extensive treatment with access to specialty care.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), also called Solution-Focused Therapy, Solution-Building Practice therapy is future-focused, goal-directed, and focuses on solutions, rather than on the problems that brought clients to seek therapy. It aims to help people experiencing difficulty find tools they can use immediately to manage symptoms and cope with challenges It is grounded in the belief that although individuals may already have the skills to create change in their lives, they often need help identifying and developing those skills. Similarly, SFBT recognizes that people already know, on some level, what change is needed in their lives, and SFBT practitioners work to help the people in their care clarify their goals. Therapist work collaboratively with clients to help develop steps to get them to their goals.

TF-CBT is a form of cognitive behavioral therapy that addresses the specific emotional and mental health needs of children, adolescents, adult survivors, and families who are struggling to overcome the destructive effects of early trauma. Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) is especially sensitive to the unique problems of youth with post-traumatic stress and mood disorders resulting from abuse, violence, or grief. TF-CBT successfully resolves a broad array of emotional and behavioral difficulties associate with single, multiple, and complex trauma experiences.