Therapy & Counseling Services
We offer both in-person and telehealth therapy.
Our approach to therapy is rooted in attachment theory, somatic awareness, and neurobiology. We believe that early childhood relationships and attachments to adults set a foundation for how we feel about our world, think about ourselves, and interact with other people. We believe that early and past experiences related to how our needs were met, or unmet, the ways we had to act to be seen and heard, the ways our families or cultures expressed emotions, the ways we were treated, the ways we were protected or unsafe, the ways we were comforted or left to take care of ourselves, are powerful. We know that all of these patterns are learned and established through early life experiences and tend to play themselves out as we get older. Studies show that our neurobiology, brain waves, brain structures, and nervous system functioning are all impacted by how healthy or unhealthy our life experiences have been, because we learn from what we see, feel and live on a deep bodily level. From this, we believe that when people struggle, it is never about something wrong, flawed, or broken in them, but rather about what they have lived and experienced and how they have figured out how to cope and survive adversity or trauma, even if those survival and coping skills are not healthy or sustainable. Studies and science show that the therapeutic relationship, and evidence-based treatment approaches can start to re-wire and change not just how we think, but how we feel, how our body reacts to stress and triggers, how we cope, and how we connect with others. There is hope that healing, change and growth are possible!
Karissa’s Approaches
Karissa provides individual and family therapy with older adolescents and adults.
Karissa utilizes an array of therapy approaches, but predominantly utilizes:
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Somatic & Body-based approaches
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Other therapy approaches include include:
Attachment-based therapy
Interpersonal & Experiential Therapy
Person-Centered & Compassion Focused
Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS)
Psychodynamic
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Solution-focused (SFBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Phil’s Approaches
Phil provides individual and family therapy with adults.
Phil utilizes an array of therapy approaches that include:
Attachment-based therapy
Interpersonal & Experiential therapy
Somatic work & Experiential therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Jungian Inspired
Humanistic
Psychodynamic
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS)
Solution-focused (SFBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)