Therapy Approaches
Whatever approach your therapist uses, these principles come with it, so you feel safe, respected and never judged.
- Safety
- Trust
- Collaboration
- Peer support
- Voice and choice
- Respect for cultural, historical and gender context
Which approaches are available depends on each therapist's training.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Noticing how thoughts, feelings, actions and situations shape each other, and building more flexible thinking and effective responses.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Skills for mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and relationships.

Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
A structured, evidence-based path for children and teens after trauma, often including a supportive caregiver.

Motivational Interviewing (MI)
A collaborative conversation that listens for your own reasons for change, rather than arguing for one.

Person-Centered Therapy
A nonjudgmental relationship built on empathy and respect, trusting your own capacity for growth.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
A focused conversation on strengths, what's already working, and small, observable steps toward change.

Family Systems Approaches
Looking at recurring patterns, roles and communication within a family, to help members change what affects them together.

Strengths-Based & Culturally Responsive Care
Care that starts with your capacities, resources and community, and asks how identity, culture and faith shape what fits you.

Play & Developmentally Responsive Approaches
For children, care that meets them through play, creativity and story, matched to their developmental level.
What to Expect
- 1Reach OutCall, email, or request an appointment online.
- 2Match With a ProviderWe help you find a clinician who fits what you need.
- 3Begin CounselingMeet in Avondale, in Phoenix, or by telehealth.
- 4Move Toward Your GoalsGrow at your own pace, with support along the way.
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