Acceptance + Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is considered a gold standard anxiety treatment. ACT helps folx build skills, via mindfulness techniques, to help you live and behave in ways consistent with your personal values - who you want to be matters. Once gained, this understanding acts as a guide to help you get more of what you want out of life, ultimately feeling more fulfilled.

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Culturally Responsive Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing the automatic negative thoughts that can contribute to, and worsen, emotional difficulties, including depression and anxiety. Culturally Responsive CBT aims to acknowledge and challenge the Western cultural values that underpin cognitive–behavioral therapies, and other modern psychosocial interventions developed in the West, adapting CBT for marginalized individuals in the West, as well as local populations outside the West.

Attachment theory

Attachment Theory serves as a solid foundation for understanding the development of ineffective coping strategies and the underlying dynamics of a person’s emotional difficulties. Attachment Theory helps us understand how past experiences with caregivers or significant others have shaped our coping patterns, how these patterns work to protect us, as well as how they may contribute to our experiences of distress.

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Mindfulness-Based interventions

Currently, there is no universally accepted definition for “mindfulness,” however mindfulness may be fundamentally understood as the state in which one becomes more aware of one's physical, mental, and emotional condition in the present moment, without becoming judgmental. Our bodies hold and feel emotion - mindfulness-based interventions aim to help people better control their thoughts, rather than be controlled by them, via body-centered techniques to connect mind, body, and spirit, and heal from distress.

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Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing is a counseling method that helps folx resolve ambivalent feelings and insecurities to find the internal motivation they need to change their behavior. 

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