Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a type of talking therapy. It is a common treatment for a range of mental health problems. It focuses on how your thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes affect your feelings and actions. 

Emotion Focused Therapy is based in attachment theory, focused on creating connections in relationships. It is used with couples, families, individuals, and even businesses. EFT approaches include elements of experiential therapy with a focus on the here and the now.

Using a Somatic Intervention lens, this therapy heals attachment wounds. Somatic Intervention, also known as Somatic Experiencing, or SE, is a type of therapy that helps treat post-traumatic stress and effects from other mental health conditions. This type of therapy connects a person's mind and body to apply psychotherapy and physical therapies during treatment. For more about Ricki's Somatic trainings go to somaticintervention.com.

Core Belief Therapy is a belief-focused approach to psychotherapy. Core beliefs are a person's most central ideas about themselves, others, and the world. These beliefs act like a lens through which every situation and life experience is seen. Because of this, people with different core beliefs might be in the same situation, but think, feel, and behave very differently. Even if a core belief is inaccurate, it still shapes how a person sees the world. Harmful core beliefs lead to negative thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, whereas rational core beliefs lead to balanced reactions. Gaining insight, awareness, and an understanding of a person's core beliefs expedites the therapeutic process.

Internal Family Systems is a powerfully transformative, evidence-based model of psychotherapy. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Our inner parts contain valuable qualities, and our core Self knows how to heal, allowing us to become integrated and whole. In IFS all parts are welcome. IFS is an empowering paradigm for understanding and harmonizing the mind and, thereby, larger human systems. It is one that can help people heal and helps the world become a more compassionate place.

DBT focuses on helping people accept the reality of their lives and their behaviors, as well as helping them learn to change their lives, including their unhelpful behaviors. It includes four modules: mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.

DBT focuses on helping people accept the reality of their lives and their behaviors, as well as helping them learn to change their lives, including their unhelpful behaviors. It includes four modules: mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.

Play therapy is to children what counseling is to adults. Play therapy utilizes play, children's natural medium of expression, to help them express their feelings more easily through toys instead of words.

A Genogram is a diagram similar to a family tree that includes information about relationships and interactions between family members. It can identify family dynamics including generational behavioral patterns or mental health issues.

Crisis Oriented Recovery Services (CORS) is a counseling program to provide immediate crisis intervention, helping to cope with crisis by managing stress, and/or suicidal thoughts or ideation.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a type of talking therapy. It is a common treatment for a range of mental health problems. CBT teaches you coping skills for dealing with different problems. It focuses on how your thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes affect your feelings and actions.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a type of talking therapy. It is a common treatment for a range of mental health problems. CBT teaches you coping skills for dealing with different problems. It focuses on how your thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes affect your feelings and actions. Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) is a therapy in which a person is gradually exposed to situations that trigger their obsessions in a safe environment, and where a person can learn therapeutic techniques to help prevent their maladaptive response.

Somatic Intervention, also known as Somatic Experiencing, or SE, is a type of therapy that helps treat post-traumatic stress and effects from other mental health conditions. This type of therapy connects a person's mind and body to apply psychotherapy and physical therapies during treatment. For more about Ricki's Somatic trainings go to somaticintervention.com.

The Gottman Method is an approach to couples therapy that includes a thorough assessment of the couple relationship and integrates research-based interventions based on the Sound Relationship House Theory (the foundation of Gottman Method Therapy). The goals of Gottman Method Couples Therapy are to disarm conflicting verbal communication; increase intimacy, respect, and affection; remove barriers that create a feeling of stagnancy; and create a heightened sense of empathy and understanding within the context of the relationship.

Parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT) is a family-centered treatment approach for children ages 2–7 with disruptive behavior and has also been used with abused and at-risk children ages 2–12. PCIT is conducted through "coaching" sessions during which you and your child are in a playroom while the therapist is in an observation room watching you interact with your child through a one-way mirror and/or live video feed. You wear a "bug-in-the-ear" device through which the therapist provides in-the-moment coaching on skills you are learning to manage your child's behavior.

Play therapy is to children what counseling is to adults. Play therapy utilizes play, children's natural medium of expression, to help them express their feelings more easily through toys instead of words.

Sand tray therapy is a creative counseling technique where a person expresses their understanding of themselves, their world, and aspects of their reality through figurines or miniatures. The scenes created in a sand tray reflect the person's past and present inner thoughts, feelings, and hardships.

Play therapy is to children what counseling is to adults. Play therapy utilizes play, children's natural medium of expression, to help them express their feelings more easily through toys instead of words.

Internal Family Systems is a powerfully transformative, evidence-based model of psychotherapy. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Our inner parts contain valuable qualities, and our core Self knows how to heal, allowing us to become integrated and whole. In IFS all parts are welcome. IFS is an empowering paradigm for understanding and harmonizing the mind and, thereby, larger human systems. It is one that can help people heal and helps the world become a more compassionate place.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) is a holistic approach to healing trauma or unhealthy attachment patterns formed in early childhood. It integrates the body and movement with traditional talk therapy to address and heal ongoing psychological and physical difficulties.

DBT focuses on helping people accept the reality of their lives and their behaviors, as well as helping them learn to change their lives, including their unhelpful behaviors. It includes four modules: mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.

TF-CBT (Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) is an evidence-based treatment that helps children address the negative effects of trauma, including processing their traumatic memories, overcoming problematic thoughts and behaviors, and developing effective coping and interpersonal skills.

DBT focuses on helping people accept the reality of their lives and their behaviors, as well as helping them learn to change their lives, including their unhelpful behaviors. It includes four modules: mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a mental health treatment technique. This method encourages the individual to briefly focus on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements), which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories.

Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a mental health condition. When a person experiences a trauma, it can cause amnesia-like walls to develop in the brain, separating parts into distinct personalities. Someone with DID will often have multiple, distinct personalities. The various identities control a person's behavior at different times.

Play therapy is to children what counseling is to adults. Play therapy utilizes play, children's natural medium of expression, to help them express their feelings more easily through toys instead of words.

Dr. Shindler, a legendary successful psychologist, taught about the use of the self in building a successful practice.

Somatic Intervention Level 1 includes understanding the relationship between mind and body, and the effects of trauma on the body. This workshop taught a variety of somatic interventions to interrupt unpleasant sensations in the body. For more about Ricki's Somatic trainings go to somaticintervention.com.

Dr. Janina Fisher, a trauma expert, taught about trauma’s effect on attachment styles. She also discussed how different diagnoses develop as a result of trauma, and how to identify them and treat them.

This workshop addressed the four attachment styles, and how a person’s relationships are rooted in their original attachment style. Attachment styles affect one’s style of parenting and her relationship to her children.

This was a practical workshop on how to parent a child in a balanced way, with clear boundaries, consistency, and kindness. It was a guide for therapists who work with parents.

From a modern psychoanalytic perspective, Dr. Marshall taught about the first session and its effect on the longevity of treatment.

Dr. Klein taught about the modality of analysis, and how the therapist’s presence in the room is instrumental in the therapeutic process.

Dr. Barbanel taught about the therapeutic relationship, transference, and counter-transference, and how to address these issues.

Dr. Wikler taught his effective method for working with high conflict couples. This method emphasizes communication skills, including listening skills, to improve the relationship between a couple.

Trauma, such as loss and grief, affect children and teens in a unique way. Dr. Pelcovitz taught about assessing and treating children and teens with trauma, and how to navigate the impact that it has on them.

The therapeutic process takes place in relation to the individual’s cognitive and emotional age. Dr. Walkenfeld discussed approaches to assessing developmental stages and treating them accordingly.

Reaching milestones in development can affect people throughout their whole life. Dr. Walkenfeld taught about cognitive and emotional developmental stages and milestones in this workshop.