What is Therapy?

  • Linked to finding stability and happiness in yourself and throughout life which can lead to better productivity

  • Find actual solutions to some hurdles that may keeping you from achieving the best version of yourself

  • Therapy doesn’t have to be forever; you have the ability to work with your therapist to determine when you can pause sessions or when you are at the point where therapy is only something you will need on an “as needed” basis

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

  • Type of therapy that that is effective for a wide variety of psychological concerns

  • Leads to a noticeable improvement in one’s quality of life and functionality

  • Based on the ideas that psychological problems are based on unhelpful behaviors and mentality, so the goal is to learn better coping mechanisms to create more life effectiveness

  • Aids in changing how someone thinks and sees the world so that they are then able to reevaluate to see the reality

  • Learning ways of facing fears and calming the mind and body

Walk & Talk Therapy

  • Mindfulness-based therapy

  • Helps to release tension and aids in relaxation with deep breathing and being out in the world instead of always in an office setting

  • Sessions can help regulate moods, lead to a better night’s sleep, decrease anxiety, and more

  • Can aid in altering behavioral patterns while also gaining the ability to find your authentic self

  • Meant to make the client feel at ease so if you do not feel like being at a park or in a store, you are able to just walk around the neighborhood

  • Does require an initial consult either virtually or in the office but once you get walking, feel free to ask if your pet can tag along if that makes you feel more at ease

Group Therapy

  • Meant to utilize a child’s favorite way of expressing themselves, playing, to help learn how to express their feelings

  • Creates a safe relationship between the child and the therapist so they are better able to “prevent or resolve psychosocial difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development”, according to the Association for Play Therapy (APT)

  • Gives insight to what a child is feeling or dealing with that would normally not be recognized or told through conversation

  • Examples of play therapy range from asking a child to tell a story; “once upon a time...”; or using different toys/games to see if anything is brought to light that the child may have found stressful or uncomfortable

  • Helps children learn helpful behaviors and work through their emotions that are sometimes too big for their age while also learning how to resolve conflicts whether it be internal or with another individual

  • Parents are able to incorporate some of the techniques at home to continue the idea of a safe space for their children to express themselves without being made to feel as if what they have to say or what they are going through “doesn’t matter”

 

Play Therapy

  • Meant to utilize a child’s favorite way of expressing themselves, playing, to help learn how to express their feelings

  • Creates a safe relationship between the child and the therapist so they are better able to “prevent or resolve psychosocial difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development”, according to the Association for Play Therapy (APT)

  • Gives insight to what a child is feeling or dealing with that would normally not be recognized or told through conversation

  • Examples of play therapy range from asking a child to tell a story; “once upon a time...”; or using different toys/games to see if anything is brought to light that the child may have found stressful or uncomfortable

  • Helps children learn helpful behaviors and work through their emotions that are sometimes too big for their age while also learning how to resolve conflicts whether it be internal or with another individual

  • Parents are able to incorporate some of the techniques at home to continue the idea of a safe space for their children to express themselves without being made to feel as if what they have to say or what they are going through “doesn’t matter”


Solution-Focused Therapy

  • Based on making goals instead of just focusing on the one problem, weakness, deficit, etc.

  • Client gains coping abilities that they can carry with them throughout life no matter what happens

  • Learning that change is normal and should be welcomed

  • Helpful for individuals with anxiety, self-esteem concerns, and depression to better understand how to find solutions to what is creating the problem and can also improve classroom behaviors

  • “magic” question of determining what you would do if your problems were solved and not currently present so that you are able to keep moving on with a more fulfilling lifestyle