Mental Health Treatment
and Counseling Styles

NARRATIVE THERAPY

According to Narrative Therapy, we are shaped by the stories we consciously and unconsciously tell ourselves. By learning to think of the problems as “outside of me” and by leaning to adapt our stories by highlighting new parts and reframing, we change our understanding of ourselves. This style is very useful for trauma and complex trauma, as well as anxiety and depression.

SOMATIC THERAPIES

These therapies work best specifically for those who want to work through their trauma. Due to how trauma is experienced and encoded in the brain, talk therapy is often not enough to create deep and lasting change. By working with body sensations, raw emotions, and specific movements, we can create profound change through integrating therapeutic discussion with felt-sense. At Closing the Wound that is done using Somatic Experiencing and Trauma Release Exercise (TRE). To understand more, you can read about how traumatic memories are stored in the brain and information about the nervous system.

INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS (IFS)

Internal Family Systems thinks of a single person as made of of different parts that work with each other or against each other. Sometimes a system that was set up at a difficult time to protect us begins to create disharmony in the system. By understanding the different parts of us and how they relate to each other, we can develop understanding and strategies to create inner harmony and work with mechanisms supporting issues like depression, anxiety, and addiction

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) works with a specific model for how memory, and more specifically, traumatic memory, is stored in the brain. By activating bilateral stimulation in conjunction with the traumatic memory, EMDR has been clinically shown to be one of the best ways to work with trauma, creating rapid results.

CBT

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the most popular therapy modalities in the world that takes a technical and organized view of structuring therapy through the connection between thoughts and behaviors. CBT offers many great tools that we can use to work with anxiety and other maladaptive thoughts and behaviors. While Closing the Wound does not use the theory behind it to understand how the mind works, we do employ certain CBT techniques that are helpful.