Integrative Mental Health 

EMDR is a modality of psychotherapy developed to treat trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health symptoms. During EMDR sessions, the therapist leads the client in targeting negative beliefs through a multi-sensory and somatice process. Using bi-lateral eye movements, sound and touch, the therapist helps to release negative beliefs and create new pathways of empowering beliefs. This process helps to re-process traumatic memories, releasing the fight, flight/freeze response, reducing their negative impact mentally and physically. The goal is to desensitize clients to past trauma and reprocess these disturbing memories into more adaptive mental representations.

Ketamine-assisted therapy involves using low doses of ketamine alongside therapy for the treatment of mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD and PTSD, as well as chronic pain. During ketamine-assisted therapy sessions, clients are administered low doses of ketamine intramuscularly, orally, or intravenously while undergoing therapy before and after. Ketamine works quickly to relieve symptoms of depression, anxiety, OCD and chronic pain. The psychedelic effects of ketamine at low doses can lead to lowering self defenses and being more open to allow engagement in therapy with greater emotional, cognitive, and psychological flexibility. In slightly higher doses, ketamine offers an alter state of consciousness allowing opportunities of new perspectives to be intruduced on targeted areas of treatment goals. Ketamine is thought to promote neural plasticity, which enhances the therapy process. The combination of ketamine's pharmacological effects and therapy can lead to long-term changes in thinking, emotions, and behavior. Individuals are thoroughly screened medically and psychologically to evaluated preparedness and fit for Ketamine treatments.

Meditation enhances mental health in several key ways. It reduces stress and anxiety by lowering cortisol and activating the relaxation response. Meditation builds emotional regulation skills for managing feelings reflectively instead of reflexively. It increases self-awareness and insight through non-judgmental observation of thoughts and emotions. Meditation can lead to beneficial changes in brain function related to focus, memory, empathy, and emotion regulation. Mindfulness meditation promotes present moment awareness, decreasing rumination and worry underlying many mental health issues. Meditation also strengthens feelings of human connection and provides effective, accessible coping skills for mental health struggles. Additionally, meditation improves sleep, which is essential for mental health. In summary, meditation facilitates both immediate calming effects and long-term transformations in thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and physiology that together benefit mental wellbeing. Meditation can be different for each individual. If you haven't been able to meditate in the past, we can help you discover your individual approach.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a therapeutic approach that views the mind as containing multiple subpersonalities called "parts," each with its own perspective and qualities. At the core of every individual is the Self, which is the seat of compassion, confidence, curiosity, and other positive qualities. The Self leads the other parts in a healthy system. However, trauma can cause certain "protective parts" to become extreme in their roles of shielding the individual. There are also "wounded parts" carrying emotional pain. IFS aims to heal these parts by having clients access their core Self, understand their extreme parts, and address the underlying wounds. This allows the parts to relinquish their problematic roles and return to their valuable intentions. As parts become less polarized, the Self is freed to lead with compassion, resulting in greater inner connection and alignment. IFS is an evidence-based therapy shown to help many mental health issues by transforming the inner system. IFS also provides a framework for understanding relationships and living with confidence, calm, courage and other positive qualities stemming from the Self. It is a perspective on how our minds can transform suffering into wisdom and lead to deeper fulfillment. When used together with EMDR transformation can occur rapidly.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an effective psychological treatment for many mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, substance use, and more. It is based on the idea that thoughts, behaviors, and emotions interact and contribute to mental health problems. The main goals of CBT are to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and learn new skills to improve functioning and quality of life. Strategies include recognizing distorted thinking, problem-solving, facing fears, and relaxation techniques. CBT is a collaborative effort between the therapist and client. Through exercises in therapy and homework, clients learn to become their own therapists by changing negative thought patterns, emotions, and behaviors. The focus is on current problems and moving forward, rather than the past. CBT is an underlying modality that flows through all of our psychotheraputic processes.

Ego states are parts of ourselves that become frozen in time, stuck in a particular emotional experience that was overwhelming. Later in life, reminders of the experience can trigger us to act from that childish, adolescent, or emotional ego state rather than our mature adult self. Ego state therapy aims to help people understand their original attachments to family and their impact on the devolpment of the ego states, the different parts of themselves that were wounded and repair and re-establish inner harmony. Banished or unwelcome ego states can interfere with goals, plans, safety and wellbeing. Ego state therapy provides techniques to work with these fragmented parts of ourselves so we can integrate them into our whole self. By addressing unresolved emotions locked in ego states, people can reduce internal tensions and access their inner wisdom and maturity in the present.