Through my years as a clinician, I’ve been able to acquire skills and trainings that allow me to provide the most efficient and quality techniques in our work together. As so in our work, you should entrust that I will be using Evidence-Based therapies in our sessions. So, if it’s using EMDR to treat trauma, DBT to treat issues with emotional dysregulation i.e., depression, anxiety, personality disorders or the Gottman Method to treat your relationship issues know that these therapies are proven, researched and the overall best.

Two of the main goals behind evidence-based practice are:

1) increased quality of treatment, and

2) increased accountability.

What is Evidence-Based therapy?

Evidence-Based Therapy (EBT), more broadly referred to as evidence-based practice (EBP), is any therapy that has shown to be effective in peer-reviewed scientific experiments. The American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association both consider EBT/EBP to be:

“‘best practice’ and one of the ‘preferred’ approaches for the treatment of psychological symptoms”.

Why is Evidence-Based therapy important?

Applying evidence-based principles ensures that providers use the best existing evidence as a starting framework, while simultaneously affording them flexibility to individualize treatment. In addition, using evidence-based psychotherapies helps providers determine effective treatment plans, objectives, and interventions. In fact, in patients with multiple medical and psychiatric comorbidities, using evidence-based treatments offers providers a starting point to develop complex treatment plans and strategies to help clients served.

All things can be improved, changed and bettered, with just a little support, no matter how big or small. With couples therapy, you’ll learn how to communicate your feelings and needs, and get what you want out of your relationship.

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers individuals comprehensive skills to manage painful memories and emotions and decrease conflicts in their relationships. This modality focuses on 4 specific areas of therapeutic skills.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an integrative psychotherapy approach that has been extensively researched and proven effective for the treatment of trauma. EMDR is a set of standardized protocols that incorporates elements from different treatment approaches.

Our family affects who we are and who we become, both for the better and for worse. We learn our vocabulary, our habits, our customs and rituals, and how to view and observe the world around us.

The Gottman Method is an approach to couples therapy that includes a thorough set of assessments of the couple’s relationship and integrates research-based interventions based on the Sound Relationship House Theory. The goals of Gottman Method Couples Therapy are to disarm conflicting verbal communication; increase intimacy, respect, and affection; remove barriers that create a feeling of stagnancy; and create a heightened sense of empathy and understanding within the context of the relationship.

Immigration Evaluations provide an in-depth assessment related to the individual’s mental health deficits and issues related to their need to immigrate to the US. When the psychological factors serve significant enough in impairment, this assessment can provide individual critical documents needed to assist in court immigration proceedings. Some common areas include PTSD, abuse, depression, anxiety and other impairments. Immigration evaluations can be utilized in cases of political asylum, extreme hardship, or spousal abuse.

If you’ve been feeling hopeless or lost lately, or struggling with a problem in your life that feels unsurmountable, individual therapy could help you improve your everyday life. Individual therapy helps you win against whatever you’re battling by putting a real expert in your corner by means of a professional therapist.

Posttraumatic stress disorder – also known as PTSD – is a mental health challenge that may occur in individuals who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a terrorist act, an act of war, a serious accident, rape, or any other violent personal assault.