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Psychotherapy & Counseling Services 

 

At the Center of Positive Psychotherapy, we provide a range of services to support your mental health, emotional well-being, and personal growth. Using evidence-based practices like Internal Family Systems (IFS), Focusing, somatic therapy, polyvagal theory techniques, and trauma-informed care, we aim to help you reconnect with yourself and uncover the strengths you already possess.We approach mental health challenges not as permanent labels but as signals—your system’s way of asking for attention, healing, and growth. Every challenge is an opportunity to discover your resilience, redefine your path, and thrive.​

 

1. Individual Psychotherapy

 

Work one-on-one with a skilled therapist to address challenges like trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, and grief.

Through evidence-based, compassionate, and attuned therapeutic approaches, we’ll help you:

 

  • understand and transform emotional patterns

  • reconnect with your core strengths

  • build resilience and self-trust

  • move toward a more grounded and fulfilling life

 

 

Therapy is always tailored to your unique story, your nervous system, and your pace.

 

 

 

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

 

 

A gentle, structured approach to inner healing

 

IFS is a trauma-informed, evidence-based modality that helps you understand and heal the different inner “parts” that shape your emotional world—such as protectors, exiles, inner critics, and vulnerable child states.

 

Through IFS, you will learn to:

 

  • unblend from overwhelming emotions

  • meet your parts with compassion rather than self-judgment

  • release burdens rooted in childhood trauma

  • build a stable, centered Self-leadership

 

 

IFS works especially well for clients with complex trauma, emotional dysregulation, shame, and deeply ingrained patterns of self-protection.

 

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Focusing (Gendlin Method)

 

 

A somatic path toward clarity and internal shift

 

Focusing is a body-centered therapeutic process that helps you listen to the subtle, often symbolic language of the body—the “felt sense.” Instead of starting with analysis, Focusing starts with inner sensation, images, metaphors, and emotional textures.

 

Through Focusing, you will:

 

  • connect with the deeper layers of emotion beneath the mind’s stories

  • experience internal “shifts” that bring relief, clarity, and insight

  • let the body lead the healing process, without forcing or interpreting

  • uncover meanings and truths that come directly from your inner experience

 

 

Focusing is especially powerful for clients who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected from their intuition or emotional clarity.

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How IFS and Focusing Work Together

 

 

Although distinct, the two approaches complement each other beautifully:

 

  • Focusing allows your body to speak first—through images, sensations, and metaphors—creating deep, organic internal shifts.

  • IFS then provides a clear structure to understand these experiences, build lasting healing, and cultivate Self-leadership.

 

 

Focusing opens the door.

IFS helps you step through and keep walking.

 

Together, they support profound emotional healing—rooted in safety, compassion, and your own internal wisdom. 

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2. Couples Psychotherapy (EFT & Attachment-Focused)

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I specialize in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and attachment-based work for couples.

My approach helps partners move out of reactive cycles, understand the deeper attachment needs behind conflict, and rebuild emotional safety.

 

What this work focuses on:

 

  • Identifying and shifting repetitive conflict patterns

  • Understanding each partner’s attachment style and triggers

  • Strengthening communication grounded in emotional presence

  • Rebuilding trust, connection, and intimacy

  • Supporting couples through transitions, grief, trauma, and parenting stress

  • Creating a secure bond based on responsiveness and attunement

 

 

Attachment Assessment

Each couple receives an individualized attachment assessment to clarify:

 

  • personal attachment histories

  • current relational patterns

  • protective strategies developed from past experiences

  • unmet needs driving conflict or distance

 

 

This assessment guides the work so that both partners feel understood, supported, and seen beyond the surface-level difficulties.

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3. Parenting Psychotherapy/Coaching​

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Parenting can activate old patterns, unprocessed emotions, and internal conflicts — especially for parents with trauma histories, anxiety, or high sensitivity.

My approach to parenting coaching integrates attachment science, Polyvagal theory, and trauma-informed guidance to support you in raising your child with clarity, emotional presence, and self-trust.

 

What Parenting Coaching includes:

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  • Understanding your child’s emotional needs

  • Setting boundaries without shame or fear

  • Supporting co-regulation during tantrums or meltdowns

  • Reducing guilt, overwhelm, and perfectionism

  • Navigating different parenting styles within the couple

  • Helping your child feel seen, safe, and understood

  • Building a family system grounded in connection rather than reactivity

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4. Parenthood & Identity Transition Psychotherapy

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(Identity transitions during pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood)

 

Becoming a parent reshapes identity on every level.

It impacts the nervous system, emotions, relationships, and sense of self. Parenting Identity Coaching focuses on guiding individuals and couples through the profound psychological shifts that come with parenthood.

 

Core themes:

 

  • Identity transitions from “individual/partner” to “mother/father/parent”

  • Maintaining your sense of self while becoming a caregiver

  • Navigating grief, fear, or ambivalence that can arise in new parenthood

  • Understanding how your own childhood impacts your parenting identity

  • Supporting the couple bond while roles and responsibilities shift

  • Balancing autonomy, partnership, and caregiving

  • Reconstructing intimacy and connection after becoming parents

  • Integrating the new identity with the old — without losing yourself

  • Healing inherited patterns so they don’t pass to the next generation

 

 

This work helps you:

 

  • feel more grounded in your new identity

  • reduce internal conflict and guilt

  • gain clarity and confidence in how you show up as a parent

  • reconnect to your partner in a more present, stable way

  • navigate the psychological restructuring that parenthood demands

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5. Group Psychotherapy

 

 

Group therapy offers a powerful space for growth, connection, and emotional healing. Unlike individual therapy, group work allows you to experience yourself in relationship with others—something essential for trauma recovery, self-esteem building, and attachment repair.

 

Groups are facilitated in a safe, structured, trauma-informed environment, helping participants learn from one another while developing emotional regulation, insight, and relational confidence.

 

 

Why Group Therapy Is Important​

 

  • It reduces isolation and shame by connecting you with others who understand

  • It helps rebuild trust and safety in relationships

  • It offers real-time practice with boundaries, communication, and emotional expression

  • It provides multiple perspectives, not just one-on-one feedback

  • It accelerates insight and healing through shared experience

  • It strengthens coregulation—the ability to calm and be calm with others

  • It teaches you how to navigate conflict, vulnerability, and authenticity in a supported space

 

 

Group therapy is an opportunity to feel seen, understood, and accepted—perhaps in ways you never experienced growing up.

 

 

 

*Current Groups Running

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i. Complex PTSD & Trauma Recovery Group

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A supportive group for individuals navigating childhood trauma, emotional neglect, attachment wounds, or repeated relational trauma.

Focus areas include stabilization, emotional regulation, inner-child work, shame healing, and building secure attachment from within.

 

 

ii. Self-Esteem & Identity Group

 

 

A group for individuals struggling with self-worth, internal criticism, identity confusion, or people-pleasing patterns.

We explore how early experiences shaped your self-concept and work toward building a grounded, authentic sense of self.

 

 

iii. Motherhood Support Group

 

 

A group for mothers who are navigating identity shifts, exhaustion, emotional overload, trauma triggers in parenting, and the pressure to “do it all.”

We explore self-compassion, boundaries, emotional presence, and the balance between caregiving and personal needs.

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6. Counseling & Coaching 

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(Why It’s a Separate Service Category)

 

Counseling/coaching sessions are short, focused, and practical. They’re designed to give you clear guidance, tools, and strategies you can use right away.

 

 

What Counseling / Coaching Is

 

 

  • technique-based

  • present-focused

  • structured and solution-oriented

  • centered on behavior, coping skills, and cognitive tools

  • ideal for quick support, stabilizing strategies, and targeted guidance

 

 

 

What Counseling / Coaching Is Not

 

 

  • it is not deep emotional processing

  • it does not explore childhood history, trauma roots, or identity patterns

  • it does not replace longer therapeutic work for complex issues

 

 

 

Why It’s Its Own Category

 

 

Some clients need brief, accessible support rather than a full session.

A 25-minute counseling/coaching appointment ($100) offers:

 

  • focused guidance

  • immediate tools

  • help navigating specific stressors

  • a flexible option for those who don’t require (or can’t fit in) longer sessions

 

 

This gives you a clear, efficient way to get support without committing to a full appointment.

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