Expressive psychotherapy is an approach to therapy that uses writing, art, music, drama, or dance to manage mental health conditions such as ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, & Autism. It is also a form of treatment that uses creative activities to help those affected share and process feelings and memories that may be hard to put into […]

The Internal Family Systems Model (IFS) is an approach to individual psychotherapy that was developed by Richard C. Schwartz in the 1980s. It combines systems thinking with the view that the mind is made up of relatively discrete subpersonalities. Each of the sub personalities have their own unique viewpoint and qualities. The sub-personalities consist of […]

Serious emotional disorders (SED) mean the presence of recognizable behavioral, or emotional disorder that impair function and interferes with the child’s functioning in family, school, or community activities. SEDs affect many children and interfere with their daily lives. People with this condition have inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health […]

Epigenetics is the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work. Epigenetic changes are reversible and do not change your DNA sequence. However, such changes can alter how the body reads a DNA sequence. While genetic changes can alter which protein is made, epigenetic changes affect […]

Life course theory is a multidisciplinary paradigm for the study of people’s lives, structural contexts, and social change. It also refers to a sequence of socially defined events and roles that the individual enacts over time. This approach encompasses ideas and observations from disciplines such as history, sociology, demography, developmental psychology, biology, and economics. Life […]

Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) is an innovative therapeutic approach for trauma. It is a biological model designed to teach wellness skills. The skills help clients to regulate emotional and physical states and reprocess traumatic experiences. This model also teach clients how to read the sensations connected to their distress and trauma. Through the TRM, client can […]

Stress inoculation therapy (SIT) is a type of psychotherapy or talk therapy that is used for people diagnosed with PTSD. It was developed in the 1980s by psychologist Donald Meichenbaum. SIT is approved for managing anxiety surrounding potentially stress-inducing events. This therapy prepares participants for stress-inducing scenarios so that they would experience less anxiety when a […]

Reminiscence Therapy (RT) involves the discussion of past activities, events and experiences with another person or group of people, usually with the aid of tangible prompts such as photographs, household and other familiar items from the past, music and archive sound recordings. It involves recalling past events as returning to these past incidents makes people […]

Gestalt therapy is an approach that helps clients focus on the present to understand what is actually happening in their lives at this moment, and how this makes them feel at the moment. This therapy does not focus on what people may assume to be happening based on past experience. Gestalt therapy is one of […]

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a type of talk therapy for people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. This therapy is adaped for people who experience emotions very intensely. “Dialectical” means combining opposite ideas. DBT focuses on helping people accept the reality of their lives and their behaviors, as well as helping them learn to change […]