An attachment-based approach to therapy explores how one’s childhood experiences might impact their ability to form meaningful bonds as adults.  Attachment-based therapy aims to build or rebuild trusting, supportive relationships.

CBT often includes learning how your thoughts affect feelings and behaviors, and practicing techniques such as relaxation, coping, resilience, stress management and assertiveness

The main goals of Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) are to teach people how to live in the moment, develop healthy ways to cope with stress, regulate their emotions, and improve their relationships with others.

The main goals of Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) are to expand and re-organize key emotional responses, initiate new cycles of interaction. and to foster the creation of a secure bond between partners.

Experiential therapy is a therapeutic technique that uses expressive tools and activities, such as role-playing or acting, arts and crafts, music, guided imagery, or various forms of recreation to re-enact and re-experience emotional situations from past and recent relationships.

Family systems therapy is based on the idea that individuals are best understood through assessing the entire family as a system. The family is an interactional unit and a change in one member effects all members. Therefore, family therapists will change the system in order to change the individuals by addressing destructive patterns and creating healthy ways of interacting.

Research shows that to make a relationship last, couples must become better friends, learn to manage conflict, and create ways to support each other’s hopes for the future. Drs. John and Julie Gottman have shown how couples can accomplish this by paying attention to what they call the Sound Relationship House, or the seven components of healthy coupleships.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an approach to psychotherapy that identifies and addresses multiple "families" within each person’s mental system. These different parts or "families" of ourselves consist of wounded parts and painful emotions and parts that try to control and protect the person from the pain of the wounded parts. Parts are often in conflict with each other and with one’s core Self, our true being.  IFS focuses on healing the wounded parts and restoring mental balance and harmony by changing the dynamics that create discord among the sub-personalities and the Self.

**DISCLAIMER:  This is not an exhaustive list of all treatment modalities used in therapy.  We use a variety of techniques from multiple modalities, rather than sticking to one single treatment model.