Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapy that can effectively help people better manage symptoms related to anxiety, depression, and anger. CBT focuses on thought patterns, and behaviors that are causing problems in a person’s life. CBT can be extremely effective in helping you understand the difference between your thoughts and feelings, and where changes may be needed. CBT helps understand, challenge, and change negative, or distorted thought patterns that are causing distress.
Coaching is a more structured treatment approach that specifically focuses on solutions and positive change. Coaching is seen as a very practical treatment approach you can initially take to start impacting a situation. This often can involve issues at work, or in your interpersonal relationships. This process is accomplished through the here-and-now coaching functions, by a trial-and-learn period, and ultimately through your commitment, effort, and execution.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy involves helping raise awareness of underlying issues from one’s past, and how they may be creating stress or conflict in current situations. It can be extremely helpful to use therapy to gain an understanding of our patterns of behaviors, emotions, and defenses that are can be limiting a person’s growth. Sometimes our early life experiences can create unhelpful and dysfunctional patterns of thinking and acting that need to be addressed. Psychodynamic psychotherapy is an effective way to help create longer term changes in the ways individuals perceive and interact with the world.
Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-oriented therapeutic approach that helps clients bring awareness to their nervous system. SE can be an effective way to help clients better understand their internal experience, learn to desensitize internal activation, and build skills to help regulate difficult emotions and experiences.