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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is concerned with the role of thinking in how we feel and behave. There are several approaches to CBT including dialectic behavioral therapy and rational emotive therapy. They all focus on identifying maladaptive patterns of thinking and work to replace them with cognitions that promote a more effective approach to problematic issues.

Psychodynamic Therapy
This school of psychotherapy stresses a therapeutic relationship in which the clinician guides the client through stages of increasing insight into relationships with significant others and the social environment. At the same time, the therapist helps the client focus on acquiring additional skills that result in resolution of conflicts, increased fulfillment and improved relations with others.

Family Therapy
Family Therapy uses a range of counseling techniques including psychodynamic, cognitive, communication theory and family systems theory. This branch of psychotherapy views the family as a system where interactions are governed by each member's role with that family system. The therapist usually meets with several family members at the same time and assists the family in increasing its awareness of the roles of each member and how the interactions among family members affect individual behaviors. The therapist's suggestions may trigger changes throughout the family system and often result in improved family functioning and greater harmony among its members.

Marriage Therapy/Couples Therapy
Marriage Therapy, Couples Therapy Marital and Couples Counseling can help in identifying the specific issues and dynamics that are causing problems in a relationship. Through the counseling process one can learn to stop destructive interactions before they become entrenched and learn new ways of relating. Couples Therapy can be helpful when two people are locked in an impasse that they can't seem to break out of. A therapist can be helpful in identifying the destructive dynamic and naming specific behavioral strategies that enable the individuals to respond differently to each other and move toward successful resolution of often long-standing issues. Many times it takes only a limited number of sessions for couples to experience profound changes in their daily interactions.

EMDR
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) was discovered and developed by Dr. Francine Shapiro in 1987. EMDR was been validated and supported as effective in the treatment of trauma by many studies. EMDR is referred to as an information processing therapy which integrates the approaches of many psychotherapies in a highly specific protocol. Elements from psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, interpersonal, experiential and body-centered therapies are included in the process in which the client focuses on a past and present experience while simultaneously focusing on an external stimuli designed to activate the body's own healing mechanisms.

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