MY SPECIALTIES
INDIVIDUAL COUNSELLING
Healing begins with connection and acceptance. Individual therapy is process through which you work one-on-one with a trained therapist—in a safe, caring, and confidential environment—to explore your feelings, beliefs, or behaviors, work through challenging or influential memories, identify aspects of your life that you would like to change, better understand yourself and others, set personal goals, and work toward desired change.
TRAUMA
Trauma, whether developmental or related to specific events, remains one of the most common driving forces underlying mental and emotional difficulties. Uncovering and healing these wounds will be the most difficult yet rewarding work that survivors will ever do, and we create a safe and nurturing environment in which such work can begin.
ANXIETY
The fast pace of today's life dictates that we are constantly doing something: moving, thinking, talking, or working, among other things. So much focus on staying busy has a drastic effect on our well-being. Other complicating factors can drive levels of stress and anxiety far past our ability to effectively cope in a healthy manner. Cognitive therapy and somatic experiencing can have a tremendous impact when utilized to combat stress.
EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITIZATION AND REPROCESSING (EMDR)
EMDR is an evidence-based therapy that is effective in treating PTSD, anxiety disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Panic Disorder, among other diagnoses. Christopher is a Certified EMDR Therapist and and EMDR Consultant-in-Training with the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA). EMDR is a structured protocol during which you will work one-on-one with your therapist in a calm, intentional environment designed to help you overcome unprocessed events, memories, and emotions.
BRAINSPOTTING
Brainspotting is an exciting new addition to the arsenal of tools that are effective in treating PTSD. Brainspotting works on the principle that "where you look" influences "how you feel," not unlike EMDR in that they are both desensitization techniques. Contact us today to learn more about Brainspotting and to inquire about how it can help you process unresolved emotions.
LIFE TRANSITIONS
Everyday life brings situations that can lead to stress, anxiety, depression, feelings of fear and isolation, loneliness, and difficulty concentrating and making effective decisions. Counseling provides you a safe sanctuary in which you can process your thoughts and feelings and clarify your vision and purpose, ultimately arming you with the confidence and assurance necessary to face such challenges.
MINDFULNESS & MEDITATION TRAINING
Christopher draws from years of mindfulness training and formal meditation teaching and practice to help you learn tools and techniques effective in regulating emotions, increasing relaxation response, and managing stress in a busy and fast-moving world.
MODES OF THERAPY
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Processing Therapy
Humanistic Therapy
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Brainspotting