Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Explore connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions, then practice more helpful responses to everyday challenges.
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A modality is a way of doing therapy. Explore approaches for thoughts, emotions, relationships, and life experiences—then talk with us about what fits your goals.
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Explore 32 therapy modalities and approaches for individuals, couples, and families. Tell us what interests you; our team will confirm clinician training, treatment fit, and current availability.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Build skills in mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and relationships. Ask whether care involves DBT skills or a comprehensive DBT program.
Free DBT resources →Ask about availability →Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
A form of CBT for OCD: gradually approach triggers while practicing not doing compulsions, including mental rituals and repeated reassurance seeking. Plan steps collaboratively with a clinician trained in ERP.
Free ERP visual guide →Ask about availability →Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Practice making room for difficult thoughts and feelings while taking meaningful steps guided by your values.
Ask about availability →Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
Combine mindfulness practice with cognitive therapy to notice patterns of thinking and respond with greater awareness.
Ask about availability →Behavioral Activation
Build small, planned steps toward meaningful activities when low mood and avoidance make it hard to engage with life.
Ask about availability →CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I)
A structured approach to insomnia that addresses sleep-related habits and beliefs, with a plan tailored to your sleep and health needs.
Ask about availability →Exposure Therapy
Practice approaching feared situations or sensations in planned steps to reduce avoidance and build new learning.
Ask about availability →Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
A structured therapy that includes processing distressing memories while using guided bilateral stimulation, such as eye movements.
Ask about availability →Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
Examine and work with trauma-related beliefs about safety, trust, control, self-worth, and intimacy.
Ask about availability →Prolonged Exposure (PE)
A structured PTSD treatment that works with trauma memories and safe reminders that have become difficult to approach.
Ask about availability →Somatic Therapy Approaches
Explore body sensations, movement, and grounding alongside emotions. Somatic approaches vary in their methods and research support.
Ask about availability →Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Explore different parts of your inner experience with curiosity and compassion, including patterns that developed to protect you.
Ask about availability →Gottman Method Couples Therapy
Focus on relationship patterns, friendship, conflict management, and shared meaning through assessment and practical exercises.
Ask about availability →Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT / EFCT)
Understand recurring emotional cycles and attachment needs, and practice more responsive ways to connect with your partner.
Ask about availability →Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT)
Combine emotional acceptance with changes in behavior to address ongoing differences and patterns of distress between partners.
Ask about availability →Cognitive Behavioral Couples Therapy
Examine how partners’ expectations, interpretations, and behaviors interact, while practicing communication and collaborative problem-solving.
Ask about availability →Family Systems Therapy
Explore relationship patterns and the ways family members affect one another, with attention to the wider family context.
Ask about availability →Structural Family Therapy
Work with family roles, boundaries, and interaction patterns to support clearer relationships and more flexible ways of functioning.
Ask about availability →Bowenian Family Therapy
Explore patterns across generations and practice maintaining a clear sense of self while staying connected with others.
Ask about availability →Psychodynamic Therapy
Explore how earlier experiences and less-conscious patterns influence present emotions, relationships, and choices.
Ask about availability →Person-Centered Therapy
Use an empathic, accepting therapeutic relationship to explore your experience and identify directions that feel meaningful to you.
Ask about availability →Narrative Therapy
Explore the stories shaping your life, separate your identity from problems, and develop perspectives grounded in your values and strengths.
Ask about availability →Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
Identify what is already working, clarify a preferred future, and build small, practical steps toward your goals.
Ask about availability →Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Explore mixed feelings about change and strengthen your own reasons for taking a next step, without pressure or judgment.
Ask about availability →Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
A structured approach that connects mood with current relationships, grief, role transitions, and interpersonal difficulties.
Ask about availability →Schema Therapy
Explore longstanding patterns of thinking, feeling, and relating, including unmet needs and coping responses that keep those patterns going.
Ask about availability →Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT)
Practice responding to distress, shame, and self-criticism with compassion, using guided reflection and skills exercises.
Ask about availability →Play Therapy
Use developmentally appropriate play to help children express experiences, explore feelings, and practice new ways of coping.
Ask about availability →Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
Use live clinician coaching during caregiver-child interactions to strengthen connection and practice positive behavior-management skills.
Ask about availability →Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
A structured approach for children and adolescents that combines trauma-focused skills and processing with appropriate caregiver participation.
Ask about availability →Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP)
Work with a young child and caregiver together, using their relationship to address the effects of difficult or traumatic experiences.
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