Somatic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Somatic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an integrative approach that combines the structured, evidence-based techniques of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with somatic (body-based) awareness and interventions. This method recognizes the interconnectedness of the mind and body, especially in how trauma, stress, and emotional experiences are stored and expressed physically.

While CBT focuses on identifying and challenging unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, the somatic component brings attention to bodily sensations, breathing patterns, posture, and physical tension. By incorporating both cognitive and somatic practices, this approach helps individuals regulate their nervous system, build emotional resilience, and foster a deeper sense of connection between mind and body.

Somatic CBT can be particularly effective for individuals coping with anxiety, trauma, chronic stress, and emotion regulation challenges.

Person-Centered Therapy

Person-Centered Therapy is a humanistic approach that emphasizes the individual's innate capacity for growth, healing, and self-understanding. This approach is grounded in the belief that people thrive in an environment of genuine acceptance, empathy, and unconditional positive regard.

In person-centered therapy, the therapist takes a non-directive, collaborative role—offering a safe, respectful space where clients are empowered to explore their thoughts, feelings, and experiences at their own pace. Rather than focusing on diagnosis or interpretation, the therapist supports the client’s self-discovery and personal development, trusting in their ability to find solutions and meaning.

This approach is especially effective in building self-esteem, enhancing self-awareness, and fostering lasting emotional growth.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy is grounded in attachment theory, which explores how early relationships with caregivers shape an individual’s emotional development, sense of self, and patterns of relating to others. This therapeutic approach focuses on understanding and healing the effects of insecure or disrupted attachment experiences.

In therapy, the client is supported in exploring how past relational patterns influence current relationships, emotional regulation, and self-worth. The therapist provides a secure, attuned, and empathetic environment—often serving as a corrective emotional experience that fosters trust, safety, and connection.

Attachment-based therapy is especially effective for individuals dealing with relationship challenges, trauma, anxiety, and issues rooted in early developmental experiences.

Internal Family Systems (Parts work)

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidence-based, trauma-informed psychotherapy model that conceptualizes the mind as a system of distinct, interactive subpersonalities—referred to as parts—each serving a protective or adaptive function.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is the idea that your mind is made up of different “parts,” kind of like an internal team. These parts show up as different feelings, thoughts, or reactions you notice in yourself — like the part of you that worries, the part that gets angry, or the part that tries really hard to keep everything together.

At the center of all these parts is your core self — the calm, steady “you” that can think clearly, feel compassion, and handle things when you’re not overwhelmed. IFS believes that this core self is always there, even if it feels buried sometimes.

Some parts carry pain from the past (these are often younger, hurt parts), and other parts work hard to protect you from feeling that pain.

The clinician guides the client in developing awareness of these parts and learn to relate to their parts with curiosity and compassion rather than judgment or suppression.

Brainspotting

Brainspotting is a trauma-informed therapeutic approach used in mental health treatment to help individuals process psychological distress, trauma, and performance-related blocks.

Brainspotting is based on the observation that specific eye positions correlate with the activation of neural networks where emotional experiences are stored. A “brainspot” refers to a fixed gaze position that accesses these subcortical areas of the brain associated with unresolved trauma, emotions, or somatic responses.

Brainspotting is grounded in neurobiological principles, particularly the role of the midbrain and limbic system in trauma and emotional memory. Unlike primarily cognitive approaches, brainspotting emphasizes bottom-up processing, accessing experiences that may not be easily reached through verbal or conscious recall alone.