Therapies
THERAPIES AND METHODOLOGIES-
At Insight Therapy Group, our “brave space” provides an inclusive invitation for anyone, from any situation or walk of life, to receive therapeutic treatment from any of our practitioners.
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Therapies for Trauma
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapeutic approaches that are proven to provide relief with unwanted thoughts, images, emotions, or feelings that may occur.
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Therapies for Individuals
Experiential Therapy, (CBT) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, (DBT) Dialectical Behavior Therapy are just a few of the therapies we offer to support you and your family in your journey to healthy relationships.
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Therapy for Families & Couples
Insight Therapy Group offers methodologies in Family Systems, Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Intimacy and Couples Therapy to provide deep and meaningful insights and change.
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Group Therapies
Insight Therapy Group is excited to offer group therapy! This provides the opportunity for you to receive therapeutic assistance from a licensed provider in a group setting.
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Play Therapy
Through play therapy, children also learn self-control, self respect, to express their feelings, problem solving, communication skills, and to modify problematic behaviors. Ask your practitioner for more information about this powerful therapeutic experience.
THERAPIES FOR TRAUMA-
EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
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EMDR is a therapeutic approach that is supported by enormous amounts of research as being effective at reducing the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as well as alleviating symptoms from anxiety, depression, panic disorders, and generally stressful life experiences.
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In EMDR, we start off by identifying your goals in therapy and building up your coping skills for managing difficult emotions. We then create a treatment plan together to explore negative beliefs that you may have about yourself or about your life, and identify the positive things that you would rather believe to be true. Then we get to work.
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EMDR involves bi-lateral stimulation (BLS), usually done by your therapist moving visual stimuli back and forth in your line of sight, or by you holding what are called “buzzies”, that vibrate in alternating hands. By repeating this BLS with gentle guidance from your therapist, your brain does the healing work that is sometimes difficult for you to comprehend.
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Many clients are drawn to EMDR because you can talk about things as little or as much as you’d like. Some clients prefer to engage in talk therapy with EMDR utilized here and there to accomplish specific goals. Some clients prefer to use only EMDR as they don’t want to verbally explore everything from their life, but still want reprieve from the symptoms they experience. We can achieve that with EMDR.
Some people are hesitant at first because the process of EMDR feels a bit weird, or like this is some kind of hypnosis (we assure you, it’s not!). You are always in control and aware of what is happening in these sessions. If any time you experience distress that is too much, you can stop.
THERAPIES FOR INDIVIDUALS-
Solution-Focused Therapy
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Solution-Focused/Strengths-Based therapy is based on the assumption that each person has their own unique skill set. Utilizing solution-focused and strengths-based questioning interventions, your therapist is there to be a witness to your pain and experience, while working with you to process the problem at hand.
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In SFT, we start off by identifying your goals in therapy and building up your coping skills for managing difficult emotions. We then create a treatment plan together to explore negative beliefs that you may have about yourself or about your life, and identify the positive things that you would rather believe to be true. Then we get to work.
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Solution-Focused therapy allows you to address current issues, without diving into issues from the past. Building upon your current strengths and resources is a big emphasis of this therapy modality. Oftentimes when we look for solutions, our minds go to big, extravagant solutions which tend to become overwhelming. Solution-Focused therapy allows us to identify solutions that have worked in the past and explore ways to apply those solutions to current problems.
As SFT progresses, your therapist works with you to explore and build upon internal and external problem solving, alternative perspective taking, and internal questioning to reinforce changes made and changes that are desired to be made. Future-oriented questions and exception questions help identify goals and to pick out what is already working so that you have a foundation to build upon for change.
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Solution-Focused therapy is direct and to-the-point, and oftentimes, goals are achieved rather quickly. By focusing on what is going right, you can work with your therapist to find small (or large) solutions or changes to problems that feel overwhelming.
Within Solution-Focused/Strengths-Based therapy the client is seen as the expert, not the therapist. Solution-Focused/Strengths-Based therapy is especially useful for struggles with self-esteem/self-worth, self-harm, life transitions, emotional regulation, negative self-talk, stress-related issues, relational issues, motivation issues, depression, anxiety, and anger issues, among others.
(DBT) Dialectical Behavior Therapy
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a highly effective treatment for individuals with a variety of complex problems, including substance abuse, borderline personality disorder (BPD), anxiety, and depression.
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In DBT, we start off by identifying your goals in therapy and building up your coping skills for managing difficult emotions. We then create a treatment plan together to explore negative beliefs that you may have about yourself or about your life, and identify the positive things that you would rather believe to be true. Then we get to work.
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DBT focuses on developing your ability to reduce the impact of the “emotional mind” while preserving the benefits of that emotional mind, such as creativity, passion and empathy.
DBT can be thought of as someone speaking the same language but having a different dialect. We may not understand each other due to different perspectives. With DBT skills and therapy you will learn that there may be two right answers to a problem. If your dialect is not understood well by others, DBT can help you “synthesize” your perspective with another’s. This will allow you to regulate your emotions in a different way, and to use more descriptive language to label your emotions and communicate with others. DBT can help you to recognize that emotions can be useful, and even intense emotions can help you bond with others if handled in a skillful manner.
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DBT works well in situations where struggles with emotional regulation are at the core of the problems someone is experiencing, and/or interfere with daily functioning. DBT can help you understand, change, and even accept painful emotions.
Seeing a therapist who is using DBT in the scope of their treatment with you helps you to learn healthy coping skills to manage strong emotions. This in turn has the potential to make your relationships easier to navigate.
Experiential Therapy
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Experiential Therapy emphasizes that above all, you as the client have the personal ability to grow.
At it’s core, Experiential Therapy promotes warmth and acceptance, in addition to the idea that everyone deserves to be seen, heard, and understood.
Within Experiential Therapy, a central goal of treatment involves the individuation of members involved as a way to promote individual growth.
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In Experiential Therapy, we start off by identifying your goals in therapy and building up your coping skills for managing difficult emotions. We then create a treatment plan together to explore negative beliefs that you may have about yourself or about your life, and identify the positive things that you would rather believe to be true. Then we get to work.
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This type of therapy uses interventions designed to promote emotional processing, improve interactions with others, express creativity, and enable deep levels of insight that go beyond traditional “talk therapy.”
Each client participating in this modality of therapy is allowed their own perceptions and unique treatment. Experiential Therapists utilize a spontaneous and authentic approach that also invites clients to be their most “real” or authentic self within sessions.
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At first, Experiential Therapy may seem as absurd or weird. The absurdity is from the spontaneous approach of the therapist and can manifest in the form of mimicking, playfulness, challenges, and so on.
Experiential Therapy is not only beneficial for individuals, but also families and couples.
(IFS) Internal Family Systems
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Internal Family Systems, otherwise, known as IFS, was first created by Richard Schwartz to address what he called “parts.” This model is both evidence-based and transformative in nature.
IFS is based on the theory that we are all made up of “parts,” that all “parts” contain valuable qualities, and that our core Self has the ability to heal and allow our “parts” to become fully integrated and whole. This therapeutic modality works to help you release burdens you are carrying, and when burdens are released your internal systems can function in a balanced way.
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In IFS, we start off by identifying your goals in therapy and building up your coping skills for managing difficult emotions. We then create a treatment plan together to explore negative beliefs that you may have about yourself or about your life, and identify the positive things that you would rather believe to be true. Then we get to work.
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Think of how you sometimes experience different feelings at the same time. A basic example could be that a “part” of you wants to spend money on something you really like (but don’t necessarily need), while another “part” of you knows that you should stay within your budget because it is more responsible to do so. A deeper example could be that a “part” of you misses a family member that you are estranged from, while another “part” of you is angry because of the hurt you still feel from that relationship or the loss of it.
IFS is based on the theory that we are all made up of “parts,” that all “parts” contain valuable qualities, and that our core Self has the ability to heal and allow our “parts” to become fully integrated and whole. This therapeutic modality works to help you release burdens you are carrying, and when burdens are released your internal systems can function in a balanced way.
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When our system is in balance, we feel the direct effects in our Self. IFS is effective for treating a variety of conditions such as depression, anxiety, phobias, panic, and physical health conditions with the aim to improve general functioning and well-being.
(CBT) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of therapy that is effective for a range of problems, including (but not limited to) anxiety and depression.
Most of us feel as if thoughts just “happen,” but the focus of CBT is to help increase awareness of our thought patterns in order to impact our feelings and behaviors.
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In CBT, we start off by identifying your goals in therapy and building up your coping skills for managing difficult emotions. We then create a treatment plan together to explore negative beliefs that you may have about yourself or about your life, and identify the positive things that you would rather believe to be true. Then we get to work.
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CBT is based on the idea that thoughts, feelings and behaviors are all connected. In other words, our thoughts help determine our feelings and our behavior.
Negative and unhelpful thoughts can contribute to and worsen emotional difficulties. CBT aims to help people identify when they have negative or unhelpful thoughts, challenge these thoughts, and replace them with more realistic beliefs.
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CBT can help people gain a better understanding of behavior, and learn problem solving skills to cope with difficult situations.
THERAPY FOR FAMILIES & COUPLES-
Family Systems
Intensive Couples Therapy
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Intensive couples therapy sessions allow the time needed for deep and meaningful insights and change.
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In Intensive Couples Therapy, we start off by identifying your goals in therapy and building up your coping skills for managing difficult emotions. We then create a treatment plan together to explore negative beliefs that you may have about yourself or about your life, and identify the positive things that you would rather believe to be true. Then we get to work.
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Quality couples work is supposed to be challenging and insightful with the end product being positive relational change. Weekly one hour sessions can make you feel like you have to end the session just as you are getting to the good part. You come, you warm up, you make a tiny insight and then you leave to go back to the same old patterns that you are desperately trying to heal.
Intensive sessions are available in blocks of time from 2-4 hours.
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Timing is flexible, and we can schedule a block of time that will best meet your needs. If you and your partner have hectic schedules, or are just desperate for positive change then the intensive approach may be your answer.
Traditional health insurance does not cover intensive therapy sessions. This type of therapy is billed at an hourly rate.
Please contact us for more information.
Intensive couples therapy sessions are currently offered by J.D. Neubauer, Lexi Moore & Adam Cauley.
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Family systems theory states that parts/units of a system operate in relation to the whole. When applying this to family therapy, the concept is that families, and each individual that makes up the family, are interconnected.
Families can experience all kinds of challenges, but family systems therapy may be the right fit for your family if you feel particularly stuck in a cycle such as: struggling to communicate effectively, feeling like you’re having the same fight over and over again, or maybe it feels as though there is someone or something to blame for problems that occur within the family.
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In Family Systems Theory, we start off by identifying your goals in therapy and building up your coping skills for managing difficult emotions. We then create a treatment plan together to explore negative beliefs that you may have about yourself or about your life, and identify the positive things that you would rather believe to be true. Then we get to work.
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Therapy provided from a family systems approach is centered on the idea that you cannot understand the “problem” in isolation from this system. In this way, family systems therapy is non-pathologizing at its core due to it focusing less on an individual’s psychological or mental state, and instead focusing on bigger picture influences that the family is embedded in.
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Family therapy from a family systems approach can increase open communication, assist in setting and maintaining healthy boundaries, and promote acceptance and closeness within a family. Beyond this, family systems therapy promotes lasting change by breaking the patterns that leave you and your family members feeling stuck.
(EFT) Emotionally-Focused Therapy
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Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is a form of therapy that focuses on attachment and relationship patterns. EFT is designed to address distress in the intimate relationships of adults.
Oftentimes, couples seek EFT when they begin feeling disconnected from one another.
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In EFT, we start off by identifying your goals in therapy and building up your coping skills for managing difficult emotions. We then create a treatment plan together to explore negative beliefs that you may have about yourself or about your life, and identify the positive things that you would rather believe to be true. Then we get to work.
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Therapists utilizing EFT work primarily with couples to identify and explore the communication patterns that perpetuate and maintain negative feelings and interactions.
Strategies from EFT can also be used in family therapy to help family members connect and improve emotional attachment, and individual therapy to assist individuals in building empathy toward others in their lives.
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EFT helps couples identify their underlying emotional needs, and assists them in communicating those needs to their partners in ways that evoke compassion and empathy.
(IFIO) Intimacy From The Inside Out
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IFIO was created and developed by Toni Herbine-Blank.
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In IFIO, we start off by identifying your goals in therapy and building up your coping skills for managing difficult emotions. We then create a treatment plan together to explore negative beliefs that you may have about yourself or about your life, and identify the positive things that you would rather believe to be true. Then we get to work.
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It incorporates the ideas of IFS to be utilized in relationships of all kinds, and to be able to use that relationship as a way for the growth of the people as individuals and the relationship as well.
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It is through the use of IFIO that you can develop courageous communication in your relationships whether you are in a partnership or want to strengthen your relationship with a family member. IFIO provides the emotional courage to evoke healing.
PLAY THERAPY -
Play Therapy
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Through the use of play therapy techniques, children can process through trauma, triggers, or stressful situations in a healthy and productive way. The therapist assists children in processing through their thoughts and feelings in order to manage their overwhelming emotions through the use of calm down techniques. Parents and children are considered co-change agents in the therapy process and work as partners with the therapist to increase these skills.
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Children are often unable to communicate their thoughts and feelings through verbal communication, which can create inner conflict and often behavioral concerns.
Research suggests play therapy is an effective mental health approach, regardless of age, gender, or the nature of the problem, and works best when a parent, family member, or caretaker is actively involved in the treatment process.
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Play therapy can help children learn more helpful behaviors, understand their emotions, and gain insight about resolving inner conflicts. Through play therapy, children also learn self-control, self respect, to express their feelings, problem solving, communication skills, and to modify problem behaviors.
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Play therapy is most often utilized for children ages 3-12 years, to help better express themselves and resolve their struggles..
Play therapy can be utilized to address the needs of neurodivergent children as well as supporting parents and children to feel more connected.
Sand Tray Therapy
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A good number of clients (mostly teenagers and adults) benefit greatly from sand tray therapy, even when they’re first skeptical about “playing in the sand.” Most people quickly come to realize that using a sand tray is so much more than just “playing” in the sand, although some clients prefer to just play with the sand for the sensory experience while talking.
When using sand tray, your therapist may ask you to make scenes in the tray. For example, to create a scene of your happiest memory. You then have the option to choose from hundreds of figurines of different animals, people, vehicles, plants and countless other items that may represent your happiest memory.
That memory is then discussed and built upon therapeutically to whatever extent you are comfortable with, and feelings that come up are further explored. The sensory experience of sand tray combined with the freedom to express different life events, thoughts, and feelings in a multidimensional way, often creates a powerful therapeutic experience.
GROUP THERAPIES-
Group Therapies
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Open to ages 18 and older who are interested in Dungeons & Dragons
The purpose of this group is to provide group members an avenue where they can explore ways to work on acceptance and commitment change with Anxiety, Social Anxeity, and Identity Exploration.
Working on acceptance and commitment in the group will help the participants learn healthy ways of relating to others while maintaining accountability for learning new skills and different ways of coping through Dungeons and Dragons.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) allows the group members to collaborate with others, which will benefit them as fellow collaborators.
Through the power of storytelling using Dungeons and Dragons, Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) allows the group members to collaborate with other group members, which will benefit them as fellow collaborators.
The goal of this group is to help increase the acceptance and commitment to change, where clients are accountable for learning and applying new coping skills as well as ways to relate to other people.
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Open to ages 12-16 who are interested in Dungeons and Dragons
The purpose of this group is to provide group members an avenue where they can explore skills they would like to improve on and be able to engage in practicing these skills through Dungeons and Dragons.
This group focuses on regulation of social anxiety symptoms and increasing healthy coping strategies. Learning and practicing these strategies will help you deal with a variety of feelings and succeed at various challenging situations that involve interacting with others. It is completely understandable if you have some good people skills already but lack in other areas. This is typically the case with most people.
Through the power of storytelling using Dungeons and Dragons, individuals will get the opportunity to engaged in role play, feedback, and ways they can transfer these skills to real life events.
The goal of this group is to help increase the choices you have, not to force you to act in any particular way. Choices give you the opportunity to use the skills you have learned or not, it is all up to you. Even when people respond to you in a way that you didn’t expect, these skills will work in almost any situation.