Psychotherapy

After the initial evaluation, you can choose between a 30-minute medication management follow up appointment with brief psychoeducation and therapy

A 45-minute regular prolonged follow up visits and therapy sessions with us. The 45-minute therapy sessions are generally weekly or bimonthly recurring appointments.

Psychotherapy (or talk therapy) is a key component of psychiatric treatment. Psychotherapy can help alleviate distressing symptoms and improve overall wellbeing. If you are interested in psychotherapy, we can discuss different styles of therapy and desired number of sessions at your initial session. It is common to use various modalities of psychotherapy to help manage symptoms. For example, we often introduce mindfulness-based practices to help develop coping skills during your therapy sessions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT has been recognized as an effective form of therapy for common psychiatric conditions. CBT tries to help improve a current problem or distress by learning to recognize and address unhelpful thought patterns and behavior that are contributing to the problem. It utilizes problem solving to change thinking pattern and behaviors, learn coping skills and gain confidence over one’s ability to alleviate distress.

Supportive Psychotherapy

Regular talk therapy that focuses on guidance and reinforcement of a patient’s strengths. It may include psychoeducation, and behavioral goal setting. Patients are encouraged to develop coping skills and resources to improve self-esteem and reduce distressing symptoms.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy

Focuses on working with a therapist to better understand the potential psychological roots (unconscious thoughts or feelings) to current emotional distress by exploring childhood experiences, relationship patterns, emotions, feelings, and defense mechanisms. By understanding these better, we hope to alleviate symptoms that may be distressing, or impacting certain aspects of life.

**If we think that you could benefit from a specific type of therapy like cognitive behavioral therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), EMDR , Group Therapy, or DBT, we would be happy provide referrals. Currently, we do not provide these specific therapy services.