Our Therapy Services
Individual Therapy
50 minutes
Clinical rates vary by therapist
In individual therapy, you and your therapist will identify core issues that you would like to address and will collaboratively work on a responsive plan for how you will address these issues in your sessions each week.
Our therapists blend somatic and experiential approaches with traditional talk therapy. You and your therapist will decide what blend of these approaches will be the best fit for you.
Extended Therapy Sessions
80 minutes, or 110 minutes
Clinical rates vary by therapist
During extended therapy sessions we have more time to deeply process a specific memory or recurring issue.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a body-centered modality, which we often utilize in our practice. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy operates on the assumption that our bodies hold and store important information about our life experiences, both positive and negative, and also that our bodies hold the wisdom we need to reorganize toward healing.
Sensorimotor sessions:
In Sensorimotor resourcing, we will work to locate points of strength and grounding within the body through exploration of posture, movement, and sensation. These inner resources become gentle, soothing anchors in the body that your nervous system begins to recognize and call upon in moments of stress or emotional discomfort.
In Sensorimotor processing, we will work to locate points where trauma and emotional pain are held in the body, through mindful observation of the sensations, movements, movement impulses, and posture/alignment, that accompany emotionally charged (or sometimes, emotionally vacant or disassociated) thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. We will lean into painful emotions and experiences, and allow them to be felt, embodied, and released.
AEDP
One of the most painful and reverberating echoes of trauma is a felt sense of unbearable aloneness. AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) seeks to undo the aloneness that trauma leaves us with by providing deeply supportive and attuned accompaniment as you explore these most painful wounds. AEDP is rooted in the belief that we are hard-wired for healing and transformation, beyond the painful and isolating experiences of trauma, grief and loss to the discovery of more meaning and connection with ourselves and the world around us.
AEDP is an approach to therapeutic treatment that integrates knowledge from the fields of attachment research, affective neuroscience, transformational studies, and body-based (somatic) therapies that gives your therapist the knowledge, skills, and awareness to help you safely and securely move more deeply into your emotional experience, which can provide you with broad and meaningful access to and connection with your inner world. This process of learning to slow down, listen more attentively to your heart alongside your story, and to follow the powerful messages contained in your body’s emotional signals can help foster new internal connections, reengagement with and trust for your intuition, and deep healing at the places that have long felt broken.
EDMR
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based therapeutic modality for the treatment of trauma. EMDR is rooted in the belief that when experiences are overwhelming, they often go unprocessed and get “stuck” in our nervous systems, causing reactivity/hypervigilance or numbing/dissociation, negative thoughts and beliefs, and other behaviors that impact our ability to live and connect with others fully in the present.
In EMDR therapy, you and your therapist will first identify memories that have been emotionally impactful. You will then spend time in therapy resourcing - which means ensuring that you have an internal/felt sense of safety and balance in your body. Once you and your therapist determine that you are safely resourced, you will move into the processing phase of treatment, where memories are - one by one - intentionally and with support - brought into focus. You will bring up an image of the memory or part of the memory and identify the feelings, body sensations and negative beliefs that have been paired with that memory. Your therapist will then provide accompaniment, supportive presence, and occasional cognitive or somatic interventions along with bilateral stimulation - which takes the form of either side to side eye movements, tapping back and forth on the knees, or holding small devices that buzz back and forth from your left hand to your right hand back as you process the thoughts, feelings, and body sensations that stem from the memory. You will process through the memory until you no longer feel high levels of distress.
EMDR is used both as a comprehensive therapeutic approach, or as an interwoven intervention used to process specific memories, feelings, or sensations that feel “stuck”. You will work with your therapist to decide which route is best for you.
IFS and Ego States/Parts Work
While IFS and Ego States are distinct therapeutic modalities, they share the common feature of speaking of behaviors, body sensations, impulses, and emotions as “parts” of our personality. Both modalities hold that as humans we have complex internal worlds comprised of many “parts”, each with distinct drives, needs, beliefs, and functions. At the core of these rich (and sometimes chaotic, conflicted, stuck, or out-of-balance) inner worlds, we all maintain an inherent wisdom, called amongst other labels the “Self” “wise self” “grounded self” or “Adult self”. We are all born into the world with this wisdom, truth and clarity.
Throughout life, we experience painful or traumatic events that create a protective scaffolding that limits our access to our inner wisdom, or “true self” energy. The parts of us that were overwhelmed or wounded by these experiences become fragmented, “pushed down”, compartmentalized or dissociated. Other parts - often referred to as “protector parts” step in - always with the best of intentions - to protect this wounded part, so that they do not have to re-experience the pain or suffering that they felt at the time they were hurt. Sometimes these protective parts function with relative grace and reasonable regulation, and sometimes become overly rigid or fierce in their mission to protect and can cause a great deal of pain and suffering in a person’s life and relationships.
When working from a “parts/IFS/ego states” perspective, we are seeking to understand the relationships between parts, facilitate communication and trust between parts, and compassionately and wisely notice, love, care for and unburden parts of ourselves that have been stuck in the echoes of pain experienced long ago.
Integrative Therapy
Your therapist will work with you to create a treatment plan and intervention strategy that feels thoughtfully paced, attuned to your unique history, personality and goals. This will often mean that they are pulling from several modalities, theoretical frameworks, and interventions that inform their practice, to create a responsive therapeutic rhythm that feels aligned with your movement toward change.
Payment
*Payment is due at the time of service. Solace Women’s Mental Health and Wellness accepts cash, checks, credit cards and Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flex Spending Account (FSA) cards. We currently do not bill insurance but can provide you with the necessary paperwork to submit to your insurance company for reimbursement. We encourage you to contact your insurance company and ask if they cover all or any portion of mental health services from a licensed out-of-network provider. Many of our patients do this and get partial or full reimbursement.