Therapy Modalities
Integrative Psychotherapy New York City
Existential-Humanistic Therapy
You don’t have to be struggling with a mental health diagnosis in order to engage in therapy. Therapy is for anyone who is interested in personal growth, self-understanding and enrichment. Existential-humanistic therapy. Existential-humanistic therapy is a therapeutic approach that combines elements of existential philosophy and humanistic psychology to help individuals explore and understand their subjective experiences, find meaning and purpose in life, and live authentically. Existential-humanistic therapy has roots to several renowned psychologists and philosophers. These include Abraham Maslow, known for developing the popular hierarchy of human needs, and the philosophies of existential philosophers like Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a proven and powerful tool to help connect you with your subconscious mind, and in case you ever wondered, your subconscious mind drives the car—about ninety-five percent of the time—and that’s a lot of time spent in the back seat! Your life can improve immensely when you are able to access your subconscious. When it comes to addressing mental health problems, hypnotherapy can be used as a part of a comprehensive treatment plan when offered by a trained and licensed mental health professional. Hypnotherapy is a complementary therapy that aims to utilize hypnosis to help individuals make positive changes in their thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.
Sexual Counseling
Many couples struggle with intimacy and sexuality. Sexual counseling, also known as sex therapy, is a specialized form of therapy focused on addressing concerns, challenges, and dysfunctions related to sexual health and intimacy. It provides individuals and couples with a safe and supportive space to explore and address sexual issues, improve sexual functioning, and enhance sexual satisfaction. Deciding if you need sex therapy is a personal decision, but there are some signs and indicators that may suggest it could be beneficial.
Nutrition & Integrative Medicine For Mental Health
Nutrition and integrative medicine for mental health involves the use of dietary interventions, nutritional supplements, and complementary and alternative therapies alongside conventional treatments to support mental health and well-being. This approach recognizes the interconnectedness of physical, nutritional, and psychological factors in influencing mental health outcomes.
Psychoanalysis & Psychoanalytic Therapy
Psychoanalysis is a way of developing a deeper awareness that enables us to make new and different choices when faced with challenging decisions rather than repeating the old patterns that keep us stuck. It is know to support deep and lasting character change. Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy are both forms of talk therapy aimed at improving mental health and well-being, but they differ in their theoretical foundations, treatment approaches, and goals.
Psychoanalysis is a comprehensive theory of personality development, psychopathology, and therapeutic technique developed by Sigmund Freud in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is both a psychological theory and a form of psychotherapy aimed at exploring the unconscious mind and its influence on human behavior, emotions, and relationships.
Parts therapy
IFS is a therapy that focuses on understanding and integrating the various parts of the psyche to promote healing and self-awareness. It is based on the premise that the mind is made up of different "parts," each with its own unique thoughts, feelings, and motivations. These parts often operate independently and can sometimes conflict with each other, leading to emotional distress and dysfunction. In IFS therapy, the goal is to help individuals understand and integrate these parts in order to achieve greater harmony and self-awareness. It is used to address a wide range of issues, including trauma, anxiety, depression, and relationship problems.
Couple Therapy
Couple therapy, also known as couples counseling or marriage counseling, is a type of psychotherapy aimed at improving the relationship between romantic partners. It provides a safe and supportive environment for couples to explore and address issues, conflicts, problem patterns and challenges within their relationship, with the goal of fostering greater understanding, communication, and intimacy. Many therapists have received specialized training in couple counseling beyond their graduate-level training. Some of the most popular training that couple therapists have received are: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman, Imago and (PACT) Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy.
Positive Psychology
Our current mental health model tends to focus more on what is wrong with us vs what is right with us. Quick to prescribe a psychiatric medicine, we lose focus on addressing the root cause of a problem. Rather than pathologize, what if we are taking the wrong approach to solving mental health concerns? These are the kind of questions that led psychologist Martin Seligman, Ph.D. to developing Positive Psychology. The reframe of difficulties as adaptive was a direct response to western medicines focus on illness according to Seligman theory. Positive Psychology helps us see emotional and mental suffering through a lens of adaptation and strength rather than disease and weakness.
Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a therapeutic approach developed by Dr. Peter A. Levine to address symptoms of trauma and stress-related disorders. It is based on the understanding that trauma is not just a psychological phenomenon but also a physiological one, involving dysregulation of the nervous system. Somatic Experiencing aims to help individuals renegotiate and heal from traumatic experiences by focusing on bodily sensations and the body's innate capacity for self-regulation.
Solution Focused Therapy
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a widely used therapeutic treatment that is future and present focused working towards goals. Unlike traditional forms of therapy that take time to analyze problems, pathology, and past life events, SFBT concentrates on finding solutions in the present and exploring one’s hope for the future in order to find a quick and pragmatic resolution of one’s problems.
Solution-focused therapy, also called solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), is a type of therapy that places more importance on discussing solutions than problems. You must discuss the problem to find a solution, but beyond understanding what the problem is and deciding how to address it, solution-focused therapy will not dwell on every detail of the problem you are experiencing.
Relational Psychotherapy
Relational psychoanalysis is a branch of psychoanalytic theory and practice that emphasizes the role of interpersonal relationships and the therapeutic relationship in shaping psychological development and emotional well-being. It emerged in the late 20th century as a reaction to the more traditional, drive-oriented models of psychoanalysis and sought to integrate contemporary relational and interpersonal perspectives into psychoanalytic theory and practice.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) is a time-limited, evidence-based psychotherapy approach focused on addressing interpersonal issues and improving interpersonal relationships. It was initially developed in the 1970s by Gerald Klerman and Myrna Weissman as a treatment for depression, but it has since been adapted for various other mental health conditions and life transitions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a widely used and evidence-based psychotherapy approach that focuses on the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Developed by Aaron T. Beck in the 1960s, CBT is grounded in the idea that our thoughts, beliefs, and interpretations of events significantly influence our emotions and behaviors. By identifying and challenging negative or distorted thinking patterns, CBT aims to help individuals develop more adaptive ways of thinking and coping with life's challenges.
EMDR Therapy
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based treatment that targets many symptoms and conditions including trauma, negative memories, phobias, fears, anxiety, addictions, compulsions and performance difficulties. Originally used to treat Veterans, EMDR therapy is now one of the most efficient and effective trauma/symptom treatment methods that allows clients to fully heal from their psychological wounds. EMDR can successfully be integrated into psychotherapy sessions. Many clients find EMDR to be more effective than other forms of therapy including CBT and traditional “talk therapy.”
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Are you interested in going deeper in your therapy and healing? Psychodynamic psychotherapy, also known as Insight-oriented therapy, is based on the theory that by increasing awareness of our unconscious experience, we can live less reflexively and more consciously, creating new life experiences. This therapeutic process involves the therapist and patient exploring, and more deeply understanding, how feelings, beliefs, actions, and events from the past are influencing our current experiences and circumstances. Successful psychodynamic psychotherapy empowers you to experience the freedom and clarity to make mature, adaptive and healthier choices in your life.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) uses Family Systems theory is based on the idea that individuals cannot be fully understood in isolation from the family unit. Techniques and strategies are used to effectively address issues within a person’s internal community or family. This evidence-based approach assumes each individual possesses a variety of sub-personalities, or “parts,” and attempts to get to know each of these parts better to achieve healing.
By learning how different parts function as a system and how the overall system reacts to other systems and other people, people in therapy can often, with the help of a trained, licensed professional, become better able to identify the roots of conflict, manage any complications arising, and achieve greater well-being.