The Therapeutic Process...

Therapeutic Framework

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We believe you can do better than “normal.” Getting to great is deceptively simple and powerful. You’ll have the necessary resources to face life’s challenges with tenacity, calm resourcefulness, and respect for yourself. ​We focus on what matters most, you!

Each of our clients receive attentive services tailored to their needs. Our top priority is on comprehensive, individualized, quality care. We allow ample time to ensure that we hear and understand your challenges. We offer session times to match your needs, 24/7. Once you are a client, we can usually offer same-day appointments in times of emergencies.

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We are experienced, empathetic, and dedicated to providing high-quality, goal-oriented care in a confidential setting. We strive to support and promote lifelong change that will allow you to form sustainable, healthy relationships, and an overall sense of well-being. We work to identify thought patterns and behaviors that may no longer be beneficial to you. You will learn to develop new ways of thinking and utilize new skills to live a happy and productive life. These changes will bring you closer to your personal goals. As you progress through treatment, we will be there by your side, offering individual guidance, tips, and strategies to help you find relief and building competency and confidence.

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Live-In Support

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​We offer another variation of very intensive support and intervention by making arrangements to live with you, 24/7, in the privacy and protection of your own home.

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This is especially useful in cases of Substance Abuse or Dependence, Rehabilitation, Suicide Watch, General Observation, Behavioral Interventions, Crisis Management, Leadership Development, etc…

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Depending on the circumstances, we can usually offer Live-In engagement arrangements to match your needs from days, weeks, or even months.

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CCT - Comprehensive Change Therapy

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C - Comprehensive

The KEYS are understanding the varying "Processes" of change, managing the stage of change our client is in, and monitoring the specific situational circumstances for each of clients.

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C - Change
The KEYS are understanding the varying "Processes" of change, managing the stage of change our client is in, and monitoring the specific situational circumstances for each of clients.

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T - Therapy

We use an "Integrative Therapy" model that best fits our client's needs which means selecting from a best practices models that include, but are not limited to the following therapies:  Psychoanalysis & Psychodynamic, Behavioral, Cognitive, Interpersonal, Experiential, & Humanistic, etc... In addition, many effective supplemental intervention methods and modalities are used in conjunction with these therapy modalities.

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The 4 C's

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1 - Counseling

Expand our Awareness of who we are and the world we live in. Understanding who we are begins with understanding ourselves. Beginning with defining clarity between principles and preferences. Recognizing what really guides us to think, feel, and behave the way we do. Understanding how things that keep repeating in our lives are serving a purpose.

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2 - Consulting

Assess and generate options. Pros & Cons of viable options. Weigh the realistic pros and cons. Determine the probabilities of success for each. Assign Probabilities to all our Net Positive options. Learn how to make the Final Decision and then Implement It.

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3 - Coaching

Coaching is all about helping someone Do & Achieve. Making sure we are Doing everything we can toward that goal. Remaining Flexible so we can Modify & Adjust any aspect of our journey. Making sure our short term goals are helping us attain our long term needs and goals. Within this coaching framework, a coach’s prime directive is to expect and attain 100% Effort. Through our best efforts will come the results that are in line with our journey. This means we need to be Process Focused while still keeping our eye on the prize.

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4 - Change

We have all heard that the only thing constant is CHANGE, and how true that is. Therefore, when we are prepared for change, it doesn’t phase us at all. When we are unprepared, it blindsides us and really derails us. The goal, therefore, is to learn how to be prepared for change.

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CCT - COMPREHENSIVE CHANGE THERAPY offers us this all inclusive pathway.

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Beyond Therapy

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Do you recognize your strengths and potential? We do. Getting to great is deceptively simple and powerful. You’ll have the necessary resources to face life’s challenges with tenacity, calm resourcefulness, and respect for yourself. Getting to great will take persistence. It also requires therapists who believe that the therapy process shouldn’t be a mystery.

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WE COLLABORATE WITH OUR CLIENTS BECAUSE WHAT WE DO AND HOW WE DO IT SHOULD BE ALIGNED WITH WHAT YOU WANT AND NEED.

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How we work together is crucial to your success. Research shows us again and again that the therapeutic relationship is a primary factor in predicting whether therapy is effective or not. Knowing this, we invest in building a trusting, warm, confidential, and respectful collaboration with our clients. And life after therapy... you can expect 100% support from us every step of the way before, during, and after. At the end of a successful treatment plan, your symptoms will largely be a thing of the past. You will also have gained a deep appreciation for yourself and your strengths and capabilities. Therapy that thinks beyond normal challenges what it means to conclude therapy. The goal isn’t to “fix” you and then send you packing. Sending you away with a concrete and sustainable maintenance plan is imperative.

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Therapeutic Approaches

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) uses a mix of acceptance, mindfulness, and behavior change strategies to improve mental wellbeing and increase psychological flexibility. ACT is a very experiential type of therapy that uses in-session exercises, metaphor, language, and physical movement to focus on living a valued life instead of getting stuck in needing to “get rid” of suffering. One of the biggest skills gained through ACT is listening to your own self-talk—the way you verbalize and understand things like past trauma, physical limitations, past relationships, or anything else on your plate. And, then with that understanding, choosing how to move through it—either by change or by acceptance.

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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a here-and-now approach to examining how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected and impact our overall well-being. CBT focuses on identifying maladaptive thinking and behavioral patterns and implementing specific strategies to reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, trauma, and other psychological challenges. CBT is an active, problem-focused approach that helps to directly challenge various cognitive distortions and change unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior. 

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) focuses on learning to manage difficult or intense emotions and to decrease conflict in relationships. The underlying philosophy of DBT hinges on the important dialectic that we are all doing the best we can, and we have the ability to be better. DBT specifically focuses on providing CBT-like therapeutic skills in four key areas—mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, interpersonal effectiveness. 

 

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a present-focused form of therapy that focuses on identifying the way you form relationships, maintain, and act in a relationship with yourself and others. Originally developed for couples therapy, EFT helps individuals and couples identify emotional patterns, learn to regulate emotions and more accurately identify needs, and re-wire painful patterns of relating. You’ll look at past patterns and work through any anger, fear, or loss of trust—coming out the other end able to connect with others in a way that feels true, unburdened, and genuine. 

 

Psychodynamic Therapy

Psychodynamic Therapy is an in-depth form of talk therapy focused on building insight into your relationship with yourself, others, and the external world. Psychodynamic therapies focus on exploring unconscious motivations, early life experiences, and patterns in relationships through the therapeutic relationship. Speaking freely about whatever is on your mind to address your most pressing issues, fears, or desires. You’ll learn to analyze and resolve any current issues through the exploration of the self and the past. 

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Family-Based Treatment (FBT)

Family-Based Treatment (FBT) is a unique supplement to many interventions, especially addictive behaviors. It especially has great success in the area of Eating Disorder Treatments. Furthermore, there are are applications across other issues and behaviors as well because of the process it employs. This makes a very versatile approach to we can choose to integrate into helping clients overcome and succeed when they are having difficulties. FBT is focuses its emphasis on the Caretaker/Interventionist and is one of the most successful treatments for eating disorders in children and teens with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and other specified feeding or eating disorder (OSFED). To distinguish it from other forms of family therapy, it has sometimes been referred to as “Maudsley Family Therapy,” a reference to its initial development at the Maudsley Hospital in London.

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Centers on the Caretaker/Family/Interventionist:  Some providers continue to focus on a family problem that needs solving and help the client to individuate in order to recover. However, we know that families do not necessarily always "cause" dysfunctional thoughts and behaviors. Dysfunctions in life are always complex issues that result from a complicated interplay of biological, psychological, and environmental factors. Traditional interventions that wait for clients to develop insight/motivation to heal are a liability. They waste valuable time trying to find one underlying problem that likely doesn’t exist. In the meantime, the consequences of such issues continue to ravish the client's health. Clients usually do not want to have treatment and that is okay; FBT works in spite of their resistance. Until the client is ready to want their own recovery, the family/interventionist can be the one who wants it on their behalf. No one loves this person more than family; this uniquely poises families to help them recover.

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FBT - 5 Core Principles

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1 - Agnostic view of illness

FBT takes an agnostic view of the issue, meaning we do not waste time trying to analyze why the issue developed.

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2 - Initial Symptom Focus

FBT prioritizes a comprehensive approach and prevention of dysfunctional behaviors.

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3 - Family Responsibility

for implementing interventionist structure, addressing behaviors and consequences, monitoring and documenting progress.

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4 - Non-Authoritarian Stance

The therapist actively collaborates with family treatment team. Family members are seen as the experts on the client/family-member.

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5 - Externalization of Disorder/Illness

The disorder/issue is seen as an external force that is attacking our client's health. Parents and providers join forces with the healthy part of the client to make progress to a full and fruitful life.

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FBT - 3 Phases

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1 - Full Familial Control

Family is fully in control of doing whatever is necessary to reestablish productive patterns of behaviors.

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2 - Gradual Return of Control

This phase is on a continuum and return of control will continue to increase as functionality increases. 

As things continue to go smoother and negative behaviors are being redefined into more positive affects. Age appropriate behaviors are key and as more are achieved, more autonomy is earned.

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3 - Establishing Autonomy

Once age-appropriate level of independence and dysfunctional behaviors decrease, treatment shifts in focus to helping the client develop a healthy balanced life and catch up on other issues.

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In an Emergency ALWAYS CALL 911, or your local emergency number, or local emergency facility in your township, city, or country.