As clinicians, we help our clients to harness the ways thoughts, emotions, and behaviors can maximize the positive impact of the brain-body connection to reduce distress. This includes teaching Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy skills, as well as other relaxation, mindfulness, action/goal-focused, acceptance, and brain-body connection strategies, all with the goal of improving functioning in order to live as best you can.

 

Our treatment approach empowers young people to develop skills to regulate emotions, cope with stress, develop healthy lifestyle patterns, discern meaningful life activities, and prioritize positive social relationships.

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AREAS OF EXPERTISE

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Therapy (Dr. Laura Gray) 

• CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

• ACT (Acceptance-Commitment Therapy)

• Self-guided hypnosis

• Biofeedback assisted relaxation

• Mindfulness-based relaxation practices (brain-body connection)

• Pediatric Psychology interventions (pill swallowing, needle phobia, medication adherence, adjustment to diagnosis, coping with diagnosis, transition to independent medical management) 

• Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT)

• Exposure and response prevention

• Distress Tolerance

• School consultation 

• Parent coaching

• Stress management 

• Treating Youth struggling with:

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Chronic pain, headaches/migraines, slow to recover concussions

  • Coping with medical conditions

  • School avoidance 

  • Life Imbalance (e.g., dopamine dependence, media addiction)

 

Counseling (Cate Riihimaki, LPC and Charlotte Mathews, Resident) :

• CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

• DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy)

• CCTP (Certified Clinical Trauma Professional)

• Mindfulness-based relaxation strategies (brain-body connection)

• Grief / Bereavement

• Parent coaching

• Social Skills training

• Integrative approach utilizing: art, music, play, and talk-therapies

• Treating Youth struggling with:

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Trauma (Grief, Loss, Sexual Assault)

  • Perfectionism, high achieving students & elite athletes dealing with high pressure situations

  • Gender Identity

  • Life Imbalance (e.g., dopamine dependence, media addiction)

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