Therapy Process
Methods and Results
Therapy Methods
Though I use a variety of techniques and approaches in therapy, most of my clients will receive a trauma-informed, person-centered approach. This involves having a transparent and non-judgemental environment to uncover your own unique needs, perspective, and goals at a pace that feels most safe to you.
In addition to these approaches, I often combine elements from the below to create a customized therapy experience to address your specific needs:
- Holistic Wellness: understanding that all aspects of your life matter to your overall well-being.
- IFS / parts-work: exploring the different perspectives that exist simultaneously within us.
- TF-CBT: teaching about how the brain works while learning relaxation and CBT skills to help safely process traumatic experiences.
- CBT: learning about the connection between your thoughts, feelings, and choices, and how to change those patterns.
- DBT: engaging in mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal skills, emotion regulation to help alleviate your symptoms.
- RO-DBT: how to tolerate uncertainty, respond to changing situations, and learn skills to improve social connections.
- Interpersonal: focuses on improving your relationships with others as a way to improve your own mental health.
- Gottman Method: a highly-researched area of relationship counseling with a focus on changing behaviors.
- Sexual Wellness: reducing shame and improving sexual functioning by resolving obstacles that created these issues.
- Somatic / Body-based Therapies: noticing the mind-body connection and allowing emotions to fully process.
- Psychodynamic: explores how your past may be influencing your present day life, such as attachment style.
- Existential: explores how to create a fulfilling, meaningful life that matters to you.
- ACT: accepting the present circumstances and identifying your values to make more meaningful choices.
- Solution-Focused: uncover specific, effective steps to help you get to the future you desire.
- Strength-Based: identifying resources and skills that can help you reach your goals.
- Feminist Therapy & Multicultural Counseling*: understanding how societal norms and systemic oppression play a role in your mental health and identity development.
Please email kerri@pineridgetherapy.com to schedule your free consultation
Therapist’s Results
Through these methods, I have helped clients significantly reduce or eliminate their panic attacks, process their trauma, increase self-esteem, learn skills to work effectively with ADHD, calm their mind, improve their sleep, identify their needs and goals, strengthen their communication skills, develop healthier relationships, improve motivation, uncover their unique identity, and find ways to happily engage in this world more authentically.
Please reach out if you would like to strengthen any of these areas for yourself.