Psychotherapy can be a powerful vehicle for personal transformation. By speaking with a trained therapist in a safe and confidential environment, a person has the opportunity to explore their inner world and gain an understanding of their behaviors. Research has…
Why isn’t talk therapy helping?
“Psychologists usually try to help people use insight and understanding to manage their behavior. However, neuroscience research shows that very few psychological problems are the result of defects in understanding; most originate in pressures from deeper regions in...
Ways Couples Connect According to Attachment Science
The Four R's of a Healthy Relationship A secure connection between couples is fostered through accessibility, responsiveness, and engagement. These moves are referred to as the R’s of Healthy Relationships. As a couple heals, they are both more approachable,...
What is Trauma and What Causes it?
Most of us won’t get through life without our own fair share of stress and heartache. But some people experience not just stress, sadness or grief, but actual trauma. This can be from events like being involved in a bad car accident, rape, a natural disaster,...
What is Trauma Therapy?
Not many of us will get through life without facing our own share of challenges. But some people experience not just stress and strife, but actual trauma. Trauma may come in the form of a physically or emotionally abusive relationship, a physical accident such...
Effective Treatment for Anxiety
Here is how Therapy or Counseling can help control your anxiety, stop worrying about thoughts, and conquer your fears. Whether you are suffering from a panic attack, obsessed with thoughts, relentless worries, or terrifying phobias, it is important to know that you do...
Couples Negative Cycle – EFT Worksheet
Negative Cycle EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) Worksheets Below are two worksheets to help couples become familiar and map out their negative cycle(s). One of the first tasks of a therapist is to determine the cycle of negative interactions of a couple, which is...
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Overview for Couples
EFT Summary Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) is one of the most researched methods In the field of psychotherapy it is a proven treatment for couples and families. Not only does it qualify as evidence-based treatment, but it is also an effective treatment that has...
Mental Research Institute (MRI) Systemic Therapy
Mental Research Institute (MRI) Systemic Therapy for families and couples MRI systemic therapy was developed with the intention of being a brief therapy, arguably the original brief therapy. MRI systemic therapists conceptualize the symptoms of individuals within the...
Ericksonian Therapeutic Principles for Hypnotherapy
Ericksonian Therapeutic Principles for Hypnotherapy People operate out of internal maps, not sensory experience *what feels good and familiar to them. Therapists attend to patient communication at all levels *watch body language. Clients can’t not communicate...