Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy is a mixture of Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), meditation, and the cultivation of present-oriented, non-judgmental attitudes called “mindfulness”. CBT generally focuses on specific problems, using a goal-oriented approach. When utilized in conjunction with mindfulness practices research suggests that MBCT can be effective in treating multiple episodes of depression, anxiety disorders, and even aid in depression-relapse prevention. Mindfulness helps you identify and observe your feelings while cognitive therapy teaches you to interrupt automatic thoughts and amend these intrusions.

For anyone suffering from overwhelming emotions and automatic emotional responses, Emotion-Focused Therapy can help! EFT grew out of, and was a response to, the overemphasis on cognition and behavior in Western psychotherapy. It is easier to focus on cognitions than implicit emotions because they are more easily accessible to consciousness, and it is easier to try to change behaviors than automatic emotional responses because behaviors are more accessible to deliberate control. Emotion, however, exerts a key influence on cognition and behavior. EFT attempts to shift the focus by emphasizing the crucial role of the experience of adaptive and maladaptive emotion in therapeutic change.

EMDR Therapy, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy is a trauma focused therapy aimed at helping individuals “reprocess” traumatic memories that were not correctly processed in their body and mind. Often times we do not have the time or space to process big things, leaving us vulnerable to the very real memories that live within us.

EMDR Therapy is a specialized technique that has shown the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma similar to how the body recovers from physical trauma.