The Trillium Wellness Center

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT (developed by Steven C. Hayes, Kelly G. Wilson, and Kirk Strosahl) is a empirically based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behavior change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility. Through metaphor, paradox, and experiential exercises clients learn how to make healthy contact with thoughts, feelings, memories, and physical sensations that have been feared and avoided. Clients gain the skills to recontextualize and accept these private events, develop greater clarity about personal values, and commit to needed behavior change. Hailey Shaughnessy

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Adlerian Therapy

Alfred Adler developed his theory in the early 1900s addressing such crucial and contemporary issues as equality, parent education, the influence of birth order, life style, and the holism of individuals. It was the first holistic theory of personality, psychopathology, and psychotherapy that was intimately connected to a humanistic philosophy of living. At the heart of Adlerian psychotherapy is the process of encouragement and therapeutic education. Adlerian theory and practice have proven especially productive as applied to the growth and development of children. All Associates

 

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT is a short-term, goal-oriented psychotherapy treatment that takes a hands-on, practical approach to problem-solving. The focus of therapy is on how you are thinking, behaving, and communicating today rather than on your early childhood experiences. The therapist assists the patient in identifying specific distortions and biases in thinking and provides guidance on how to change this thinking.  Cognitive therapy helps the patient learn effective self-help skills that are used in homework assignments that help you change the way you think, feel and behave. All Associates

 

​Family Systems Therapy

Family Systems Therapy is a branch of psychotherapy that works with families to nurture change and development. It tends to view change in terms of the systems of interaction between family members. It emphasizes family relationships as an important factor in psychological health.  The different schools of family therapy have in common a belief that, regardless of the origin of the problem, and regardless of whether the clients consider it an "individual" or "family" issue, involving families in solutions often benefits clients. All Associates

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Gestalt Therapy

Gestalt therapy was developed by Fritz Perls, Laura Perls and Paul Goodman in the 1940s and 1950s. It is an existential and experiential form of psychotherapy that emphasizes personal responsibility. Gestalt therapy focuses upon the individual's experience in the present moment, the therapist–client relationship, the environmental and social contexts of a person's life, and the self-regulating adjustments people make as a result of their overall situation.  Jessica Crosby

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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

MBCT is a clinically proven therapy for reducing stress and anxiety, and preventing relapses in those who suffer from depression. It combines the practice of mindfulness meditation with the practical skills of cognitive therapy. Mindfulness is a non-judgmental way of paying attention in the present moment, and leads to increased personal awareness and clarity. Cognitive therapy is designed to interrupt thought patterns that lead to depressive and anxious spirals. The program was originally developed by Zindel Segal, Mark Williams and John Teasdale. Hailey Shaughnessy

 

Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT)

MB-EAT, developed by Jean Kristeller, and supported by NIH-funded research, addresses mindless and stress-related eating, disordered eating patterns, and obesity.  MB-EAT employs mindfulness meditation, eating exercises, didactic instruction, and self-reflection to cultivate awareness and a more balanced and positive relationship to eating and weight.  Hailey Shaughnessy

 

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

MBSR is a mindfulness-based program designed to assist people with pain and a range of conditions and life issues that were initially difficult to treat in a hospital setting. It uses a combination of mindfulness meditation, body awareness, and yoga to help people become more mindful and was developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. In recent years, meditation has been the subject of controlled clinical research. This suggests it may have beneficial effects, including stress reduction, relaxation, and improvements to quality of life, but that it does not help prevent or cure disease. Hailey Shaughnessy

 

Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention for Addictive Behaviors (MBRP)

MBRP is a novel treatment approach developed at the Addictive Behaviors Research Center at the University of Washington, for individuals in recovery from addictive behaviors. The program is designed to bring practices of mindful awareness to individuals who have suffered from the addictive trappings and tendencies of the mind. MBRP practices are intended to foster increased awareness of triggers, destructive habitual patterns, and “automatic” reactions that seem to control many of our lives. Hailey Shaughnessy

 

Motivational Interviewing (MI)

MI is a counseling approach developed by clinical psychologists Professor William R Miller, Ph.D. and Professor Stephen Rollnick, Ph.D. MI recognizes and accepts the fact that clients who need to make changes in their lives approach counseling at different levels of readiness to change their behavior.  MI is non-judgmental, non-confrontational and non-adversarial. The approach attempts to increase the client's awareness of the potential problems caused, consequences experienced, and risks faced as a result of the behavior in question. Alternately, therapists help clients envision a better future, and become increasingly motivated to achieve it. All Associates

 

Play Therapy

Play therapy is a form of counseling that uses play to communicate with children to help them resolve psychosocial challenges. Its use aids children in developing better social integration, emotional modulation, trauma resolution, and growth and development. Play therapy is generally employed with children aged 3 through 11 and provides a way for them to express their experiences and feelings through a natural, self-guided, self-healing process. Jessica Crosby

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Positive Psychology

Positive Psychology, pioneered by Martin Seligman, 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. Positive Psychology holds the fundamental notion that everyone has a personal strengths profile and regardless of weakness, an individual's greatest opportunity for fulfillment, growth and success lies in the identification, development and application of their key strengths. All Associates

 

Rapid Resolution Therapy® (RRT)

RRT is a form of clinical hypnotherapy.  “RRT eliminates emotional pain and destructive behavioral patterns and completely resolves the psychological and physiological effects of trauma.  RRT works with the understanding that the subconscious controls emotions, desires, memory, habits, thoughts, dreams and automatic responses. One may consciously understand the value of eliminating problematic emotions, thoughts or behaviors but unless the subconscious mind is reached, enduring change is unlikely. By engaging the subconscious mind and eliminating the ongoing influence from troubling past events, blocked energy is released, healing takes place, and change is automatic. Negative habits and painful emotions are replaced by positive actions and feelings of well-being.”  RRT was founded and developed by Dr. Jon Connelly. Hailey Shaughnessy

[i] Information obtained at http://www.rapidresolutiontherapy.com

 

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)

REBT, created by Albert Ellis in the 1950's, is based on the premise that whenever we become upset, it is not the events taking place in our lives that upset us; it is the beliefs that we hold that cause us to become depressed, anxious, enraged, etc.  REBT referrs to these as irrational beliefs.  The goal of REBT is to help people change their irrational beliefs into rational beliefs. REBT therapists strive to help their clients develop acceptance.  The three types of acceptance in REBT are: (1) unconditional self-acceptance; (2) unconditional other-acceptance; and (3) unconditional life-acceptance. All Associates

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Rogerian Person-centered Therapy

Rogerian Person-centered Therapy was developed by psychologist Carl Rogers. Person-centered therapy seeks to facilitate a client's self-actualizing tendency, "an inbuilt proclivity toward growth and fulfillment", via acceptance, therapist congruence, and empathic understanding. Rogers ascribed individual personal experience as the basis for therapeutic effect. Rogers identified six conditions which are needed to produce personality changes in clients: relationship, vulnerability to anxiety (on the part of the client), genuineness (the therapist is truly himself or herself and incorporates some self-disclosure), the client's perception of the therapist's genuineness, the therapist's unconditional positive regard for the client, and accurate empathy.

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Solution-focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

SFBT is an approach to psychotherapy based on solution-building rather than problem-solving. It was developed by Steve de Shazer, Insoo Kim Berg, and their colleagues beginning in the late 1970s at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee. SFBT explores current resources and future hopes rather than present problems and past causes and typically involves only three to five sessions. It has great value as a preliminary and often sufficient intervention and can be used safely as an adjunct to other treatments. All Associates