Our services.
Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI)
Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) is a holistic, evidence based, trauma informed system designed to support children who have experienced abuse, neglect, or attachment challenges. Developed by Dr. Karyn Purvis and Dr. David Cross, is uses empowering (physical), connecting (attachment), and correcting (behavioral), principles to foster trust, self-regulation, and behavioral challenges.
CBT - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an evidence-based, structured approach that helps individuals understand how their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are interconnected, with the goal of identifying and changing unhelpful thinking patterns that contribute to distress. Through techniques like cognitive restructuring, clients learn to challenge and replace inaccurate or negative thoughts with more balanced perspectives, while also engaging in practical behavioral strategies such as increasing meaningful activities, building coping skills, and gradually facing fears. CBT is present-focused, goal oriented, and collaborative, equipping individuals with effective tools they can apply in daily life to improve emotional well-being and functioning.
TFCBT - Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
TFCBT is an evidence-based treatment model designed to help children, adolescents, and their caregivers process and recover from traumatic experiences. It integrates cognitive behavioral techniques with trauma sensitive interventions to address the emotional and behavioral effects of trauma. TFCBT helps clients understand the connection between their thoughts, feelings and behaviors, while gradually processing traumatic memories in a safe and supportive way. Key components include psychoeducation, skill-building for coping and regulation, gradual exposure through trauma narration, and active caregiver involvement to support healing and reinforce skills. This structured, short-term approach aims to reduce trauma-related systems, strengthen resilience, and restore a sense of safety and stability.
Unified Protocol for Children & Adolescents UP-C/UP-A
The Unified Protocol for Children and Adolescents is an evidence-based, transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral therapy designed to help young people who experience a range of emotional difficulties, including anxiety, depression, and related disorders. Rather than focusing on a single diagnosis, it targets a shared pattern of emotional dis-regulation such as avoidance, rigid thinking, and difficulty managing intense emotions. Treatment emphasizes developing emotional awareness, mindfulness skills, cognitive flexibility, and effective coping strategies, while incorporating gradual exposure to feared or avoided situations to build tolerance and confidence. Caregivers are often involved to support skill practice and reinforce progress at home. The goal is to help children and adolescents better understand and manage their emotions, reduce avoidance behaviors, and improve overall functioning across school, family and social settings.
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, person centered counseling approach designed to strengthen a client’s own motivation and commitment to change. It is grounded in empathy and respects autonomy, helping individuals explore and resolve ambivalence rather than be directed or persuaded. MI is widely used for substance use, health behavioral change, and engagement in treatment.
Additional Integrative Therapeutic Focuses
In addition, the therapeutic experience may include boundary work, skill development around navigating relationships in healthy and successful ways (rooted in Gottman proven methods), trauma and grief processing, DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy), play and art therapy techniques, development of healthy social skills and/or improving self-esteem/self-worth, pre-marital (SYMBIS), mindfulness, 12-step recovery work, parent/child coaching. Treatment is tailored to each client’s individual needs.