About Our Psychotherapy Services

 

Trauma-Informed Care (TIC)

Spirit Integrative Care & Consulting, P.C. fosters a culture of safety, integrity, and healing across its entire organization, ensuring that the principles of trauma-informed care permeate every aspect of patient interaction and organizational practice. Trauma-informed care (TIC) is a holistic approach that centers on understanding how trauma influences individuals' lives and behaviors, with the goal of creating a safe and supportive environment for healing. This approach emphasizes empathy and insight into how trauma can shape one's behaviors, reactions, and relationships. Care providers work to foster transparency, consistency, and respect, allowing individuals to feel safe and supported throughout their care. Patients are actively involved in creating and updating their treatment plans, promoting a sense of agency and empowerment. A key goal of trauma-informed care is to help individuals build resilience, the ability to cope with adversity and thrive despite past trauma. The ultimate aim of trauma-informed care is to empower the individual, enabling them to regain a sense of control over their life, decisions, and healing process (Wheeler, 2020).​

 

Supportive Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Supportive psychotherapy aims to strengthen defenses, promote problem-solving, restore adaptive functioning, and provide symptom belief. The content of therapy focuses on safety, education, and enhancing coping skills. This approach is appropriate for most mental disorders and clusters of symptoms and is often incorporated with integrative approaches to therapy (Wheeler, 2020). ​​

 

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)​

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a structured, evidence-based form of psychotherapy that focuses on the interconnectedness of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The core idea is that our thoughts influence our emotions and behaviors, and conversely, our emotions and behaviors can affect our thoughts. By recognizing and altering unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior, individuals can improve their emotional well-being and address mental health issues like anxiety, depression, and stress-related disorders (Chand, Kuckel, & Huecker, 2023; InformedHealth.org, 2022; Wheeler, 2020). 

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Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy (E-H)

Existential-Humanistic psychotherapy focuses on free will, self-determination, and the search for meaning. The approach emphasizes a person's capacity to make rational choices and to develop to their maximum potential. Existential psychotherapies use a range of approaches, but major themes focus on the concepts of responsibility and freedom, to find meaning in the face of anxiety by choosing to think and act responsibly. The existential perspective also considers religious and/or spiritual concerns as they relate to major life themes. According to philosopher Paul Tillich, existential psychotherapy fairly and honestly confronts life’s "ultimate concerns," including loneliness, suffering, and meaninglessness (Existential-Humanistic Therapy, 2024; Psychology Today, 2024; Wheeler, 2020). For more information about existential therapy, please visit the Existential-Humanistic Institute (2024).

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Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy was developed by psychologist Richard Schwartz. Internal Family Systems Therapy is an evidence-based therapy developed to address the many parts or subpersonalities that make-up the human being. People are born with these parts and they are all valuable, but parts may change roles as we are exposed to life's traumas and challenges. The goal of IFS is to help the person's parts to unburden extreme emotions. To learn more about IFS therapy, please visit the IFS Institute (2025).

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Interpersonal Therapy (IPT). Interpersonal therapy is a brief focused time-limited psychotherapy that emphasizes the link between mood and current interpersonal relationships while recognizing the role of genetic, biochemical, developmental and  personality factors. For more information on interpersonal psychotherapy, please visit the International Society for Interpersonal Psychotherapy ([ISIPT], n.d.). 

 

​Person-Centered Therapy​

Person-centered psychotherapy (also known as client-centered psychotherapy) is a humanistic therapeutic approach developed by Carl Rogers (1961). It is grounded in the belief that every individual has an inherent capacity for growth, self-awareness, and self-actualization. The core idea is that people are fundamentally good and capable of positive change, though difficulties arise when there is a disconnection between their self-concept and their experiences. In this framework, therapy focuses on helping clients reconnect with their inner sense of worth and goodness (Wheeler, 2020).​
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​​Solution Focused Therapy (SFT)

Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) is a brief psychotherapy that was developed by Steve de Shazer (1940-2005), and Insoo Kim Berg (1934-2007) in collaboration with their colleagues at the Milwaukee Brief Family Therapy Center in the late 1970s. "Solution Focused Therapy, in the most basic sense, is a hope friendly, positive emotion eliciting, future-oriented vehicle for formulating, motivating, achieving, and sustaining desired behavioral change." (ISFT, 2024). For more information on this therapeutic approach, please visit the Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy (2024). ​​

 

References ​

 

Chand, S. P., Kuckel, D. P., & Huecker, M. R. (2023). Cognitive Behavior Therapy. In StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing.​

 

Existential- Humanistic Institute ([EHI], 2024). About existential-humanistic therapy. https://ehinstitute.org/existential-therapy/​

 

InformedHealth.org (2022). Cognitive behavioral therapy. https://www.informedhealth.org/cognitive-behavioral-therapy-cbt.html

 

​Internal Family Systems Institute (2025). All about internal family systems in 17 minutes. https://ifs-institute.com/about-us

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International Institute for Interpersonal Psychotherapy ([ISIPT], n.d.). Welcome to the International Society of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (ISIPT) website!  https://interpersonalpsychotherapy.org/home/

 

​Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy ([ISFT], 2024). What is solution-focused therapy? https://solutionfocused.net/what-is-solution-focused-therapy/​

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Psychology Today (2024). Existential therapy. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapy-types/existential-therapy​

 

Wheeler, K. (2020). Psychotherapy for the advanced practice psychiatric nurse (3rd ed.). Springer Publishing Company.​