Therapy: A Collaborative Approach to Healing
At A Place For You, we believe that healing begins with understanding — of yourself, your experiences, and the patterns that shape your life.
Our work together is a space where compassion meets evidence-based practice, blending several therapeutic approaches to meet your unique needs and goals.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT):
A form of CBT that emphasizes emotion regulation, mindfulness, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.
It teaches you how to manage intense emotions without acting impulsively and how to improve relationships through healthy communication.
Great for: emotional disregulation, borderline personality disorder, self-harm, and high-stress coping.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT):
Focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
CBT helps you identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more balanced, realistic ones. The goal is to change the way you think and act so you can feel better and cope more effectively.
Great for: anxiety, depression, panic, and stress.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR):
EMDR is a powerful, evidence-based therapy that helps people heal from the emotional distress caused by difficult or traumatic experiences.
Rather than focusing only on talking about the past, EMDR helps your brain reprocess memories so they no longer feel as painful or triggering in the present.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy:
IFS is a gentle, deeply transformative approach to understanding yourself and healing from within.
It’s based on the idea that your mind is made up of many different “parts” — each with its own feelings, thoughts, and roles — and that all of these parts have good intentions, even when their actions cause distress.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP):
ERP is a highly effective therapy for managing anxiety and obsessive-compulsive patterns. ERP helps you gradually face the thoughts, fears, or situations that trigger distress — while learning to resist the urges to engage in the rituals or behaviors that usually follow.
Through this process, you build confidence, tolerance for uncertainty, and freedom from compulsions, learning that anxiety naturally decreases over time. ERP is structured, supportive, and tailored to your pace — giving you practical tools to regain control and create lasting change in your life.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT):
Future-oriented and goal-driven. Rather than analyzing problems in depth, SFBT helps you identify your strengths and build on what’s already working.
Focuses on creating practical steps toward immediate change.
Great for: short-term challenges, goal setting, and motivation.
Motivational Interviewing (MI):
MI is a collaborative, goal-oriented approach that helps you explore and strengthen your own motivation for change.
Rather than telling you what to do, MI focuses on your reasons for change — empowering you to move forward at your own pace, in a way that feels authentic and self-directed.
Person-Centered Approach:
At the heart of therapy is you.
Rooted in empathy, respect, and unconditional positive regard, this approach ensures that our sessions are collaborative and guided by your pace, values, and inner wisdom.
You are the expert on your own life — my role is to support and empower you along the way.
Psychodynamic Perspective:
Sometimes, the struggles we face today are connected to earlier experiences or unconscious beliefs.
Using insight-oriented work, we’ll gently explore the deeper layers of your story — helping you gain clarity about what drives your emotions, relationships, and choices.
Mindfulness-Based Practices:
Mindfulness helps you slow down, notice your experience in the present moment, and respond with intention rather than impulse.
We integrate grounding exercises, mindful awareness, and breathing techniques to help reduce anxiety, calm the nervous system, and promote emotional clarity.
