Types of Treatment

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages individuals to accept difficult feelings while taking meaningful action rather than waiting for uncomfortable emotions to disappear.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. With a therapist’s guidance, individuals can identify unhelpful thought patterns, develop healthier coping strategies, and work toward specific goals.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is a cognitive-behavioral approach that emphasizes emotional regulation and practical skills for managing intense emotions and challenging relationships.

Exposure-Response Therapy

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) involves gradually facing thoughts, images, objects, or situations that trigger anxiety while learning to resist compulsive responses under the guidance of a therapist.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy

EMDR is a comprehensive psychotherapy approach that uses structured protocols to address past experiences, current triggers, and future adaptive behaviors. It is commonly used as a trauma treatment.

Family Systems

Family systems therapy views the family as an emotional unit and considers how family relationships and patterns may influence an individual’s experiences and behavior.

Logotherapy

Developed by Viktor Frankl, logotherapy focuses on the human search for meaning and purpose and explores how individuals can pursue meaning in their lives.

Person-Centered Therapy

Person-centered therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, uses a supportive, non-directive approach that encourages individuals to develop self-understanding and recognize their own potential.

Pharmacotherapy

Pharmacotherapy is treatment through the use of medications. Associates in Mental Health, SC, provides psychiatric treatment and medication-based care as appropriate.

Play Therapy

Play therapy uses the therapeutic powers of play within a structured interpersonal process to help clients address psychosocial difficulties and support healthy development.

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Psychodynamic psychotherapy focuses on unconscious processes, self-awareness, and understanding how past experiences and relationships may influence present thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy

Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT), developed by Albert Ellis, focuses on how thoughts influence emotions and behavior while encouraging more rational and healthy patterns of thinking.

Solution-Focused Therapy

Solution-focused therapy emphasizes present needs and desired future outcomes. The therapist and client work together to identify goals, strengths, resources, and practical steps toward change.

Trauma-Focused CBT

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) helps children, adolescents, and caregivers process trauma-related thoughts and emotions while developing healthier coping and communication skills.

Wellness Coaching

Wellness coaching focuses on motivation, personal values, strengths, and practical actions that can help individuals pursue greater wellness and maintain lasting changes.