evidence-based treatment

We use scientifically validated, gold-standard modalities tailored to your unique cognitive, emotional, and behavioral landscape. Rather than a one-size-fits-all model, we provide active, goal-oriented care grounded in clinical research.
While these modalities provide rigorous empirical frameworks, therapy remains a human partnership. We integrate these methods flexibly to match your personal values, clinical goals, and lived experience.

What It Is: A foundational, active therapy focused on the relationship between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
How It Helps: You will learn to identify automatic negative cognitive patterns, reframe unhelpful assumptions, and implement behavioral experiments to overcome depression, anxiety disorders, and chronic stress.

What It Is: A specialized cognitive-behavioral approach balancing active change with self-acceptance and mindfulness.
How It Helps: Structured around four core areas—Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness—DBT equips individuals with concrete skills to navigate intense emotions, reduce impulsive reactivity, and stabilize relationships.

What It Is: A mindfulness-based behavioral therapy centered on psychological flexibility and value-congruent living.
How It Helps: Instead of fighting or avoiding painful thoughts and sensations, ACT helps you change your relationship with them. By clarifying what truly matters to you, you learn to take purposeful, committed action even in the presence of discomfort.

What It Is: The clinical gold standard for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), severe phobias, and panic spectrum concerns.
How It Helps: Through gradual, structured, and compassionate exposure to triggers while resisting compulsive rituals or avoidance behaviors, your nervous system naturally habituates—breaking the cycle of obsessions and compulsive distress.

What It Is: Evidence-based exposure protocols specifically developed to treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and acute stress.
How It Helps: Trauma often leaves memories and associated reminders feeling immediately threatening. By systematically processing traumatic memories and safely revisiting avoided situations, clients regain a sense of safety, mastery, and peace.

What It Is: A clinical orientation that honors how intersecting identities—including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation (LGBTQIA+ affirming), socioeconomic background, and spiritual traditions—shape an individual’s worldview and lived experience.
How It Helps: Mental health does not exist in a vacuum. We provide a non-pathologizing, reflective space that actively respects your cultural values, addresses systemic stressors and minority stress, and ensures interventions resonate with who you are.

What It Is: A targeted, practical intervention designed for high-achieving adults, professionals, and students with ADHD or organizational challenges.
How It Helps: We develop sustainable, personalized systems for time management, cognitive flexibility, prioritization, and sustained focus—helping you align your daily execution with your intellectual capabilities.

What It Is: An evidence-based systemic approach exploring how communication loops, boundary structures, and attachment dynamics shape relationship patterns.
How It Helps: Whether navigating high-conflict cycles, life transitions, or co-parenting stressors, we focus on identifying underlying emotional needs, dismantling destructive communication scripts, and establishing sustainable intimacy and mutual collaboration.

What It Is: Developmentally tailored cognitive-behavioral and behavioral interventions designed for youth navigating emotional, academic, or social pressures.
How It Helps: Combining skill-building, emotion regulation strategies, and collaborative caregiver guidance, we assist youth struggling with anxiety, school performance, mood shifts, ADHD, or life transitions—building emotional literacy, self-efficacy, and long-term resilience.

Dr. lauren reba-harrelson ph.d.