Treatment Specialties
Depression
- Reframe negative thinking
- Learn behavioral activation to improve your mood
- Learn to identify triggers
- Build support systems
ADHD
- Learn organizational skills
- Build mastery with time management and planning
- Improve initiation and follow-through on tasks
- Learn strategies for breaking up tasks into manageable steps
- Learn new habits and thought patterns
OCD
- Understand how your obsessions and/or rituals affect you
- Learn how to deal with your intrusive thoughts and impulses
- Use exposure and response prevention to regain control of your life
Bipolar Disorder
- Learn to identify triggers and plan for symptoms
- Learn how to track mood changes
- Develop a tool kit for coping with difficult emotions
- Establish healthy habits
- Learn techniques for how to separate symptoms from self
Social Anxiety
- Learn to identify thoughts that hold you back from social interactions
- Use coping strategies to counteract those thoughts
- Learn to face social situations you fear
- Learn assertiveness skills
PTSD
- Process trauma related memories and feelings
- Learn how to regulate strong emotions
- Learn to build or rebuild your ability to trust others
- Reduce stress by learning grounding techniques
Hoarding
- Learn to identify and challenge thoughts and beliefs related to acquiring and saving items
- Learn to resist the urge to acquire more items
- Learn to organize and categorize possessions to help you decide which ones to discard
- Improve your decision-making and coping skills
- Learn to reduce isolation and increase social involvement with more meaningful activities
- Learn ways to enhance motivation for change
Panic Disorder
- Learn the physiology of fear and panic
- Develop skills to target your thoughts and beliefs about panic and anxiety
- Learn skills for overcoming the fear of physical symptoms during panic
- Eliminate the fear of panic sensations through interoceptive deconditioning
Generalized Anxiety
- Examine how your automatic thoughts contribute to anxiety
- Understand how your behaviors and reactions in situations trigger anxiety
- Recognize anxiety and what it feels like in your body
- Confront fears
- Learn relaxation techniques
Trichotillomania (TTM) + Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs)
- Learn to raise your “specific” awareness of the hair pulling/picking habit
- Learn to recognize early warning signs (internal and external) for hair pulling/picking
- Understand and aim at reducing the presence of environmental cues that trigger hair pulling/picking
Insomnia
- Learn behavioral techniques to get a better night’s sleep
- Learn how sleep hygiene can help
- Use cognitive behavioral techniques to reduce worries about sleeping
Agoraphobia
- Learn what factors may trigger a panic attack or panic-like symptoms and what makes them worse
- Develop a method of coping and tolerate symptoms of anxiety
- Change unwanted or unhealthy behaviors through exposure therapy, to safely face places and situations that cause fear and discomfort
Specific Phobia
- Learn how to change your response to feared objects and/or situations with exposure therapy
- Develop a sense of mastery and confidence with thoughts and feelings using cognitive behavioral techniques
Separation Anxiety
- Learn how to face and manage fears of separation and uncertainty
- Parent training to provide effective emotional support and encourage age appropriate independence
Tourettes
- Use awareness training to determine what increases or decreases tics
- Understand premonitory urges that occur before tics
- Learn to better manage tics through competing responses and social support
