Treatment Approaches
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an evidence-based approach found to be effective in thousands of clinical trials for many different disorders. CBT therapists explore their patients' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, as well as the situational factors that contribute to distress. CBT is structured, goal-oriented, skill-based, and hands-on. When expertly delivered, CBT is a short-term intervention that is often highly effective in 12 - sessions. |
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
ERP is the gold-standard treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and phobias. It works by gradually confronting fears to break the link with avoidance behaviors or compulsions that may relieve distress in the short-term but actually worsen the cycle of anxiety over time. When expertly delivered, ERP is a short-term intervention that is often highly effective in 12 - 16 sessions. |
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Parenting Anxious Children (SPACE)
Anxiety can be contagious and often impacts the mood and behavior of the entire family. Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) is a 6-8 session program for parents to reduce enabling accommodations while increasing healthy support for their anxious children. SPACE does not require the child to attend therapy and clinical trials have demonstrated its effectiveness to be commensurate to child-centered CBT. |
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
EMDR is a psychotherapy approach that promotes healing from the symptoms and emotional distress that arise from traumatic events or growing up with an emotionally immature parent. An evidence-based treatment for trauma, EMDR therapists follow a structured, eight-phase approach that alleviates painful memories and negative beliefs that lead to the doubt, avoidance, and rumination that underpin anxiety and depressive disorders. |