Therapy Approaches
Healing is available now
If you are struggling, we have good news.
Clear View Counseling offers a menu of effective therapies so we can serve each client with the best possible approaches.
We live in a time when there are many effective modalities available to treat mental distress and provide you with both practical life skills and healing.
Our therapists welcome you with warmth, compassion, practical life skills, and support. Our goal is to guide you toward moving forward in life with healing, clarity, and resilience.
We meet you where you are, without judgment.
Therapies we offer include:
Brainspotting (BSP)
Brainspotting is an exciting, highly effective whole-system therapy approach that provides access to deeper parts of the brain and nervous system. Similar to Somatic Experience, BSP enables therapists to help clients process and heal on a deeper level than traditional talk therapies. Many of our clients experience remarkable results in very few sessions.
Read Brainspotting: How It Works And What To Expect from Forbes.com, 8/10/23 to learn more.
Brainspotting Intensives
Led by Kim Johancen, a certified Brainspotting consultant and LPC, our Brainspotting Intensives offer personalized sessions focused on deep, concentrated work. These intensives are designed to help clients address trauma, anxiety, and other complex issues in an immersive setting. Kim’s expertise and compassionate approach make these sessions ideal for clients seeking a transformative experience.
Customized Sessions: Half-day and full-day options based on individual needs.
Focus on Deep Healing: Intensive format supports trauma, anxiety, and complex issues.
Led by Expert Consultant: Conducted by Kim Johancen, a certified Brainspotting consultant.
Immersive, Transformative Experience: Designed to facilitate breakthrough progress.
For more information on Kim’s background and expertise, please view her full bio here.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT is still considered the gold standard of effective therapy for PTSD and other diagnoses, including depression and anxiety. Clients learn strategies that can help change negative thinking and painful emotions, disrupting ineffective behavioral patterns. Clients practice skills during sessions, and often achieve accelerated benefits from homework practiced between sessions.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Originally designed by Marsha Linehan to work with Borderline Personality Disorder, DBT is an evidenced-based therapy that has been found to be highly effective with many other diagnoses including depression, suicidal ideation, self-injury, and eating disorders. Clients learn skills, including mindfulness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance, to help with painful emotions and ineffective behavioral patterns.
Eye Movement and Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is known as an evidence-based therapy that helps clients process traumatic events and experiences. Through bilateral stimulation, clients are able to access both brain hemispheres and can therefore access both traumatic memories and present, here-and-now experience. By creating new neural pathways in the brain, activating events are no longer emotionally charged.
Many clients feel that both BSP and EMDR help more quickly than traditional talk therapy.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS helps clients identify and work with multiple parts of themselves, including the inner child and defenses that may appear as perfectionistic or highly reactive. By working with various parts, clients are able to attach more authentically to their true selves and develop more compassion for themselves and others. This is a great therapy for issues including unresolved trauma, emotional dysregulation, and dissociation.
“I’m so glad to have learned about EMDR and Brainspotting as treatments for long-standing PTSD. And I’m so grateful to have found an experienced and insightful practitioner.”
— Ali D.
