If you've ever felt stuck in traditional talk therapy—rehashing painful memories without relief—ART offers something different. This isn't about endlessly processing your story. It's about changing how your brain holds onto it. Accelerated Resolution Therapy is an evidence-based approach that helps you move through trauma, anxiety, grief, phobias, and other deeply held pain—often in [...]
The Enneagram is an ancient, powerful tool for personal and collective transformation. Stemming from the Greek words ennea (nine) and grammos (a written symbol), the nine-pointed Enneagram symbol represents nine distinct strategies for relating to the self, others and the world. How do we know what is real? I’m sure you’ve heard the story of a group of [...]
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a well-known humanistic approach to psychotherapy formulated in the 1980’s and developed in tandem with the science of adult attachment, a profound developmental theory of personality and intimate relationships. This science has expanded our understanding of individual dysfunction and health as well as the nature of love relationships and family [...]
Pia Mellody joins the company of those who have created highly effective therapeutic models and who can put their theories into practice with unusual skill. Pia’s approach is phenomenological, resulting from her own painful struggle with codependency, as well as from thousands of hours spent interviewing and working out healing strategies with patients at The Meadows. Pia began her [...]
New Ways for Families® is a structured parenting skills method intended to reduce the impact of conflict on the children in potentially high-conflict divorce and separation cases. It can be used whenever a parent or the court believes one parent needs restricted parenting time (supervised, no contact, limited time), at the start of a [...]
Psychodrama is a powerful modality often used in psychotherapy. Many clinicians use it under different terms such as drama, work, experiential, empty chair, gestalt etc... Why Psychodrama may be useful... Clients find this skill to be useful because it gets the client out of their "head." Or often it allows clients to access both sides [...]
Complex Trauma Not all trauma looks the same. While some people experience a single overwhelming event, many carry the effects of complex trauma—the kind that happens over time, often in relationships where you should have been safe. Childhood neglect, emotional abuse, unstable caregivers, chronic invalidation—these experiences don't leave a single wound. They shape the [...]
Positive Psychology is the scientific study of the strengths that enable individuals and communities to thrive. The field is founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, to cultivate what is best within themselves, and to enhance their experiences of love, work, and play. When we finally realize that life [...]
