Treatment Modalities for Online Therapy for Women in Washington, DC
We are all unique individuals, with different strengths, paths, and goals in therapy. If all of us are rare and special, then why should therapy only look one way? Therapy isn’t a one size fits all approach. Choosing my DC area practice means that you will get an individualized, custom, and integrative approach to your goals, combining the therapeutic modalities that best fit your needs. Read on to learn more about the different modalities I specialize in as a therapist in the DC area.
Integrative, Team Based Approach for Women’s Mental Health Counseling in New York
An integrative, team based approach is necessary to address complex trauma, chronic pain, chronic health issues, pregnancy anxiety, birth trauma, miscarriage, infertility, and pregnancy loss. Working with Women’s CBT, you will gain:
Neuroscience psychoeducation and neurology basics to understand how complex and medical trauma affects the brain and body. Grounding techniques to activate your parasympathetic nervous system and calm the body in order to bring the prefrontal cortex online.
Integrative therapy, combining psychodynamic processing with various therapeutic theories and techniques that are the right fit for you. We can combine talk therapy with distress tolerance techniques from DBT, trauma informed CBT skills, mindfulness and ACT tools, techniques from family systems theory and information to help inform your attachment style. Working with us means you get a customized approach that works for you.
Trauma informed Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) tools, reframing techniques and tools integrated from Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), a highly effective trauma informed cognitive behavioral therapy developed by Veterans Affairs to address PTSD and Complex PTSD. These tools help identify unhelpful thought patterns, stuck points and create more helpful reframes. Neurons that wire together fire together and our brains have neuroplasticity, meaning when we practice new ways of thinking we can rewire our neural networks.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) techniques and tools, including mindfulness skills and meditative techniques. Grounding tools such as breathing exercises, stretching and Progressive Muscle Relaxation help activate our parasympathetic nervous system. Meditations such as self compassion, loving kindness and radical self acceptance help increase our acceptance of painful emotions and situations.
It is my firm belief that it takes a team to heal. Your mind and body are connected and should be treated as such. With an integrative, team based approach, I routinely collaborate with and refer to the following providers:
Reproductive Psychiatry
Urologists
OBGYN
Pelvic Physical Therapy
Acupuncturist
Pilates Instructors
Lymphatic Massage Therapist
Somatic Therapy
Dance and Creative Arts Therapy
Rheumatologists
Endocrinologists
Neurologists
Nutritionists
Surgeons
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is a highly effective, evidence-based therapeutic technique used to help decrease feelings of anxiety and depression while utilizing helpful reframes. Together, we can use CBT techniques to change unhelpful thought patterns and challenge cognitive distortions.
Trauma focused CBT
In my DC-based practice, I use a trauma-informed lens to validate emotions surrounding complex chronic health issues, grief, and loss while reframing thoughts in a more helpful way.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is rooted in values-based living and mindfulness techniques. Learn how to identify your own personal values in relationships, work, and leisure as well as health & individual growth.
Commit to Action
Create committed action steps to create change and help you live in closer alignment with your personal values. Practice visualization, somatic exercises, meditation, and mindfulness techniques to decrease stress, and anxiety and manage chronic pain flares.
Trauma Informed Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Cognitive Processing Therapy is a CBT-based therapeutic technique to address Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Individuals with complex chronic health issues often experience medical trauma.
CPT: Trauma-Informed Care
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is a trauma-informed type of CBT that is highly effective in decreasing symptoms of trauma. CPT is helpful for women with a history of medical trauma, birth trauma, sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional/verbal abuse as well as complex trauma.
Attachment Style
Attachment Style based therapy helps us explore various attachment styles and how they present themselves in different environments. Attachment styles are oftentimes shaped by early childhood experiences with our primary caregivers, parents, and families.
Types of attachment styles include:
secure
anxious
avoidant
disorganized
Attachment styles may look different in different environments, such as romantic relationships, family, work or friendships. If you don’t have an attachment style in an area of life that you feel is helpful, we can address taking action steps towards this goal as attachment styles are able to change.
Secure attachment style:
You feel secure in your relationship and your role most of the time. Feelings of anxiety or avoidance are manageable and do not interfere with your day to day.
Anxious attachment style:
You feel anxious in your relationship and role in the relationship most of the time. You may be filled with worry often that your partner will abandon you or you will not be needed in a friendship or at work.
Avoidant attachment style:
You feel avoidant of your relationship most of the time. You tend to shut down when feeling too much closeness, avoid your partner, avoid your friends or avoid conflict. You may feel overwhelmed by your friendships or romantic relationships often.
Disorganized attachment style:
You oscillate between feeling both anxious and avoidant in your relationships. At times you may be anxious that your partner will leave you and then shift to avoiding your partner to protect your feelings or minimize conflict. This back and forth can feel very confusing and overwhelming.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Dialectical behavior therapy is a CBT-based technique that helps increase emotional regulation through strategies like mindfulness, acceptance, distress tolerance, and behavioral changes.
What to Expect with DBT
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, is integrated into individual therapy sessions by prioritizing key concepts to help my clients recognize and utilize dialectical thinking strategies, healthy distraction techniques, and coping skills, as well as distress tolerance training.
These strategies are incredibly helpful in regulating the autonomic nervous system of individuals experiencing medical trauma.
Family Systems Therapy
Family systems therapy views our entire family as an interconnected system, examining relationships among family members and identifying familial roles that were assigned to us.
The Behavior of One Impacts All
Family systems therapy acknowledges that the behavior of one family member affects the whole system and that change in one family member creates change in dynamics throughout the family. This therapeutic modality can help us understand the roles created in our family, our identity in the family system, dynamics between family members, and generational traumas.
Internal Family Systems
Internal Family Systems Therapy is rooted in the idea that we have many parts of ourselves that create our whole selves. Using an integrative model, we can explore the many parts of ourselves.
Getting to Know Yourself Through Online Therapy in DC
For instance, we can get to know the Achiever part, the Nurturer part or even the Anxious or Perfectionist parts, acknowledging that no parts are bad. They are simply parts of the whole that are each helpful at certain times and serve a purpose.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic Therapy is a form of talk therapy rooted in a compassionate exploration of both past and current events, acknowledging the impact that childhood events, familial dynamics or trauma can have on the current self, worldview, relationships, and day-to-day functioning.
A Client-Centered Therapy Approach
Psychodynamic therapy is a client-centered approach, with unconditional regard and compassion for the client. This approach uses self-reflection and examination of the self to bring the unconscious into our consciousness.
Psychodynamic Processing
Psychodynamic processing leads to greater insight into how and why you feel and think in certain ways or patterns. By understanding patterns, we can create change and take action to live in more alignment with our goals.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy is a pillar of cognitive behavior therapy and served as a foundation for what CBT is known as today. Rational emotive behavior therapy, or REBT, asserts that our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are all interconnected and helps us alter negative or unhelpful thinking patterns to make changes in our feelings and behaviors.
Dispute Unhelpful Thoughts With REBT
Together, we dispute unhelpful thought patterns with evidence and find more acceptance for negative events that inevitably occur in life. REBT teaches us that we are all worthy self-acceptance, others are worthy of acceptance and we can withstand disappointments or hardships in life.
Online Therapy for Women in Washington, DC, and New York
As a woman in today’s high-pressure world, the demands on your mental health can be overwhelming. At our DC-based Therapy office, as a skilled therapist, I am here to the support and healing tools you need in order to regain control of your life and move forward in a positive way. Follow the steps below to get started on your journey to healing.
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Other Mental Health Services Offered at Greater Washington DC and New York City CBT Counseling for Women
We understand that women face a unique set of mental health challenges in today’s society and need specialized support. No two mental health journey’s to recovery are the same and we offer care and support that is specific to each individual. We offer these services in therapy for anxiety, depression, and PTSD in both Individual and Group counseling settings. We also specialize in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Processing Therapy in addition to CBT. For more helpful information check out my blogs and videos!