All Treatment can be done through Teletherapy
Talk to your therapist about whether in-office or virtual sessions will be optimal for you both. Factors include health and safety, scheduling availability, personal preference, and best best outcomes.
Individual Therapy
There’s a pretty good chance that you’ve found your way onto this website because you’re looking for individual therapy. Although you may have never seen a therapist before, this form of treatment is familiar to us all.
In some cases, being alone with your therapist may be the safest way to express your personal life. For others, doing individual therapy is like going to the spa or getting a massage, in that it’s uninterrupted ‘me time.’ Still others take it like working-out with a personal trainer, taking advantage of personal attention for intense personal growth. Whatever the case, Individual Therapy can be highly gratifying.
Couples Therapy
Every couple fights and every couple has problems. The happiest couples are just really skilled at handling their problems and turning fights into a constructive, collaborative process.
Whether you’re a new couple with designs on starting off right, a couple in need of a tune-up, or if you’re if you’re fearing that you may separate or divorce, Couple’s Treatment can work for you.
No matter what the situation, every couple can improve in conflict resolution, working together, being mindful of each other, and approaching sensitive subjects.
Family Therapy
Family is your loving center or your tyrannical dictator, your top priority and value or a crushing burden. Family is a lot of things.
So, naturally there are many reasons why you may be seeking family therapy. From an individual perspective, understand that your success may be greatly helped or hindered by the people who are around you most often or have the biggest influence over you. Including them in your healing process then, is a way to work toward securing your success.
Parents may be seeking help because one of your children is “OUT OF CONTROL!”? Perhaps there so much tension at home that you like your kids best when you’re away from them? Maybe you feel your family slipping and becoming more distant. Or maybe you’ve all been through a lot, and want to get life back to normal.
Often times, a great deal of shame can be associated with being able to relate to one of the above noted concerns. Family therapy is a practical solution and a great step toward returning to a happy and enriching family life. It can be challenging and difficult, but you can build the kind of success that lasts.
Our services.
Clinical Supervision
If you are a Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist or a recent graduate of an MFT program, and in need of Supervision, contact us to discuss your options. Erik works with individuals, dyads, and groups.
For reasonable rates, Erik provides consultation-style Supervision. Focus to combine care for your current clients, theory and practice development, ethical consideration and development, and self-as-therapist.
Trauma-Intensive Work
Living with trauma can be overbearing, and nonstop pain. It can also be as simple as a mix of fuzzy memories and knowing that you’re not living quite like you think you could. Beyond painful memories, you may be carrying shame, self-loathing, fear.
You may have heard of Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) before. If so, you may be eager to delve in, or you may think it’s really bizarre.
EMDR is a type of therapy that uses eye movements or other bilateral stimulation to help you connect to and reprocess memories.
This can be helpful in a number of ways. If you’re experiencing posttramuatic stress, this technique can be used to help you get a better handle on the trauma that occurred and to manage it in a way that less upsetting and no longer debilitating.
Another use is to help you reprocess early memories or early-formed beliefs that may be contributing to current problems in your life.
This is actually rather complex, but has had great results with a variety of serious problems. If interested, we’d be glad to discuss.
Children
You may have noticed trouble at or even getting to school, outbursts, high anxiety or terror. Because you care, you want to help your child. Childhood is a great time to seek therapy because it can be a starting point to increase self-awareness, develop skills, and be prepared as more changes and challenges come.
Because of how the brain and body develop, a child can’t be expected to approach therapy in the same way an adult might. This is why therapy with children often involves play activities, art, and family engagement. You Therapy is committed to being responsive to the individual needs of adolescents, teens, young adults, and school-age children.
Much of what’s stated in the above-listed options applies for young people. We insist on guardian approval and at least some involvement, but this does not limit our work to being strictly family-based. As long as we’re focused on a common goal, we can collaborate to determine what will work best.