Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages accepting thoughts and feelings rather than resisting them. It enhances psychological flexibility, helping clients align actions with their values amid difficult emotions. Using mindfulness and behavioral strategies, ACT promotes present awareness, enabling individuals to move forward authentically despite challenges.

CBT helps to identify the connection between thoughts-behaviors-emotions and the influence they may have on each other. Supports with feeling identification, psycho-education, behavioral activation, exposure, and reframing thought process (when appropriate).

Narrative Therapy is a type of therapy that helps people see themselves as separate from their “difficulties”. It focuses on the stories we tell about ourselves and how these stories shape our identities and experiences. This therapy encourages individuals to reflect on how their “difficulties” have impacted their lives and to create new narratives that align with their values and goals.

Parts Work is a therapeutic approach that focuses on understanding and integrating the different parts of a person’s psyche. The aim of parts work therapy is to identify, understand, and harmonize these parts so that the individual can achieve greater self-awareness, healing, and inner balance. According to Internal Family Systems (IFS), everyone has multiple "parts" or subpersonalities within them, and these parts often take on roles based on past experiences. Each part has its own perspective, emotions, and behavior patterns. *Please note I am not an IFS therapist, I only incorporate Parts Work model in my practice if appropriate.

Psychodynamic Therapy aims for self-awareness and understanding of past/present behaviors by exploring individual’s past experience with present self thinking. Supports with speaking freely on thoughts, fears, past, present and how repressed emotions impact current decision making.

Somatic Practices emphasizes the mind-body-connection while regulating the nervous system. Often, prolonged stress and trauma can put the body in an elongated sympathetic state (flight/fight/freeze response), and somatic practices aid in supporting the body back to the parasympathetic state (rest and digest state).