Specialized Therapy, In-Home Stabilization & Court Consultation

My treatment approaches use a combination of:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Focuses on identifying, challenging, and restructuring unhelpful thought patterns and core beliefs to modify maladaptive behaviors and emotional responses.
• Structural Family Therapy (SFT): Examines family subsystems, boundaries, and organizational hierarchies to unseat dysfunctional patterns and establish healthy familial structures.
• Internal Family Systems (IFS): Identifies and works with sub-personalities (“parts”) within the individual’s mental system, aiming to integrate wounded parts under the leadership of the core Self.
• Motivational Interviewing (MI): A person-centered, directive communication style designed to resolve ambivalence and strengthen internal motivation for personal change.
• Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT): A goal-directed approach that focuses on a client’s existing strengths, future aspirations, and immediate solutions rather than dwelling on past problems or history.
• Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT): Centers on the premise that emotions are connected to human needs, helping clients identify, experience, explore, transform, and manage emotional states.
• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Explores unconscious processes, early childhood experiences, and attachment patterns to gain insight into present-day behavior and relationship dynamics.
• Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian): A humanistic approach relying on empathy, unconditional positive regard, and genuineness from the therapist to foster self-actualization and growth.
• Behavioral Activation (BA): A structured behavioral treatment for depression that helps clients systematically increase engagement in rewarding, value-aligned daily activities.
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT): A time-limited treatment focusing on resolving interpersonal problems—such as grief, role transitions, or disputes—to relieve psychological distress.

Coordinating treatment across the systems around a youth

Effective care for high-risk youth rarely happens in isolation. I regularly coordinate with the people and systems involved in a young person's life to keep treatment aligned and legal conditions on track:

• Juvenile Community Corrections (JCCO)
• Schools
• Families & their natural supports
• Case managers & other providers
• Medical & medication managers
• Courts & attorneys
• Multidisciplinary teams
• DHHS
• Foster families