PROFESSIONAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING SERVICES

FOR INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES AND FAMILIES

We specialize in treating trauma, complex-trauma, codependency and relationship dynamics.  We utilize a combination of Dialectical Behavioral Skills Therapy (DBT), Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Relational Life Therapy (RLT), Post-Induction Therapy (PIT/Meadows Model) and if requested Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy to individualize a treatment plan specific to your mental health needs and goals for therapy.

RELATIONAL LIFE THERAPY

Breaking the Rules of Traditional Therapy

Designed to bring deep healing and swift changes that last

You can’t connect to a relationship if you can’t connect to a person, and you can’t connect to a person if you can’t connect to yourself. RLT first reconnects people to themselves—their feelings, desires, and needs—and then reconnects them to their relationships.

What makes RLT unique is…

• Lasting Change
  Traditional therapy heals through nurture, but this isn’t enough for permanent change. RLT goes even further, equipping people with the lifelong relational skills they need for lasting change.
• Swift Results
  Letting therapy drag on can be detrimental to clients, especially those in crisis. RLT uses a powerful combination of techniques to quickly get to the root of negative behaviors, understand where they came from, and teach individuals how to change them.
• Dramatic Transformations
  The idea that character is fixed is outdated. Character is changeable, and through RLT, we can teach people to transform negative beliefs and behaviors, often dramatically and sometimes immediately.
• Healing Trauma in the Partner’s Presence
  In traditional therapy, trauma work is done individually. But opening up such levels of vulnerability in their partner’s presence helps people go much deeper for more remarkable transformations.
• Tackling Shame and Grandiosity
  Modern therapy often focuses on bringing people up from shame. RLT is concerned with both shame and grandiosity to help couples achieve healthy levels of self-esteem—working with both is necessary for relationships and individuals to heal.
• Radical Honesty
  We don’t shy away from directly but compassionately telling clients what they’re doing to harm their relationships. We tell them what to do in certain situations so they can have a corrective emotional experience with their partner over and over.
• We Take Sides
  Often, therapists remain neutral, never siding with one partner. But relationships are rarely 50/50, so in RLT, we explicitly side with the disempowered partner to restore balance in the relationship.
• Therapists and Clients Are Equal
  In RLT, therapists aren’t above clients as experts, nor are we simply facilitators. We’re right there in the thick of it with them, sharing our own experiences of relational living to inspire, motivate, and build trust.

EQUINE-ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY

The horse is a natural grounding entity. When one learns to be mindful in the presence of the horse, the horse provides instant feedback to the people around them.  Horses have the ability to help regulate the troubling emotions that have become a problem for the people experiencing them.

Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy involves a client, a facilitator, and one or more horses in an arena type setting.  The facilitator offers suggestions to the client in regard to communicating with the horse.  Once the horse has “hooked on” to the client, the facilitator steps away and allows the horse to continue the session.