Psychodynamic theory works with the belief that childhood events have a powerful influence on our adult lives.

These childhood experiences often remain unconscious, affect and shape personality, and cause problems as adults. This holistic theory focuses on the patient's perspective while exploring deep-seated needs, urges, and desires. Psychodynamic therapy involves the interpretation of emotional and mental processes by examining the meaning people ascribe to past experiences, and exploring their feelings and patterns of behavior.

Psychodynamic therapy helps people identify patterns in their thoughts, beliefs, and emotions to gain insight into their current selves. A core component of the psychodynamic theory is the belief that early life experiences are incredibly influential in the psychological development of a person and can significantly impact their ability to function later in life, as an adult. By identifying important parts of themselves, people can see how their different pieces contribute to the creation of their whole being and impact their lives and relationships.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a "problem-based" therapy and therapeutic approach that aims to reduce or eliminate negative symptoms of behavior by identifying core beliefs and automatic thoughts. This model focuses on the perceptions and spontaneous thoughts a person has about their life and specific situations. By identifying the core beliefs people have about themselves, other people, and the world, they can learn how thoughts trigger and influence emotional, physiological, and behavioral responses to different situations.

CBT helps people identify "stinking thinking patterns," which can lead to behavioral change. When people become aware of how automatic thoughts influence behavior, they can learn tools to stop these automatic thoughts and gain control over their thought patterns. This therapy approach helps people recognize how they can gain control over their behavior and emotional reactions, leading to a better life.

The goals of CBT are to raise self-awareness and increase emotional intelligence. Clients learn to identify negative thought patterns and to differentiate between healthy and unhealthy thought patterns and feelings. People learn to determine how their perceptions of situations lead to negative emotions, which then invites painful feelings, and leads to unnecessary suffering. Clients are encouraged to recognize how they perceive different situations and how their perceptions can rapidly influence their behavior. By identifying negative thought/ behavior cycles, clients learn to identify and quickly change their thinking and develop greater self-control over their behavior. By identifying core beliefs at the root of their suffering, people can redirect their focus and attention to growth and personal development. By understanding what invites negative thinking patterns, people learn to recognize and learn skills to prevent negative cycles from repeating in the future. This positive process reinforces emotional growth and the development of emotional intelligence.

Family System Therapy goals are to improve communication, solve problems, and handle complex situations to create a more peaceful and healthy home environment.

By exploring and identifying established roles within the family, members of the family learn how to switch positions, and find new ways to support each other. Family systems therapy's primary goal is to establish healthy boundaries and build a healthy family system. This approach to treatment tackles family issues by identifying how individual family members' actions affect the functioning of the whole family.

Psychodynamic family therapy focuses on unconscious processes and unresolved conflicts in the context of family relationships.

Family members explore their family history, especially traumatic events, to resolve underlying issues.

A core tenant of this therapy is on the importance of adult members of the family working out unresolved conflicts with their parents, to better understand their current disputes with their partner(s) and child(ren).

Psychodynamic family therapy can help families discover and address the deep-seated issues that give rise to ongoing family problems, leading to healthier and happier families and relationships.

Narrative Therapy views people as being separate from their problems. This approach helps people see their problems as something they have but not something that identifies who they are, at their core. Situations and events in a person's life are viewed as stories. Some experiences have a more significant impact and exert greater meaning on a person's life story than others. These events and personal stories, often stem from adverse events in a person's life and shape their identity.

Clients are seen as the expert of their own life and are encouraged to distance themselves from their "perceived" issues. By externalizing and examining the problem, people can see how the problem might serve to protect them, more than hurt them. This perspective empowers individuals to make changes in their thought and behavior patterns. Narrative Therapy encourages people to rewrite their life stories by changing their personal narrative. This approach helps people create an unfolding story that reflects who they are, recognizes what they are capable of, and helps identify their life purpose.

This approach works well with Individuals, couples, and families. Anyone who defines themselves by their problems can learn to see their problem as something they have but not identify who they are.

Control Mastery Theory (CMT) includes two central premises that make up the name of the theory when combined. CMT assumes people have CONTROL over their mental content and believes that people who come to therapy are intrinsically motivated to gain MASTERY over their lives. CMT is an integrative theory and based on the core principles of several different theoretical approaches. CMT is humanistic in the assumption that people genuinely strive towards health. CMT is cognitive in the assumption that unconscious beliefs originating from traumatic events lead to psychopathology. CMT is relational in the assumption that people learn, and change happens in the context of relationships. CMT is psychoanalytic and focuses on unconscious processes and the unconscious's power to sustain psychopathology. The psychoanalytic approach believes that people test their pathogenic beliefs through transference to overcome their problems. Control Mastery theory works through a collaborative relationship between the patient and the therapist, where they work together to identify and disprove the patient's pathogenic beliefs.

Transpersonal psychology focuses on integrating spiritual and transcendent aspects of the human experience. This work explores personal identity and focuses on the sense of self and where it extends, beyond individual and personal awareness. By discussing and incorporating shared collective experiences that encompass broad aspects of humankind, Transpersonal psychology supports the healing and expansion of the soul. Personal development is encouraged, with attention focused on the spirit. The focus is beyond conventional, private, and individual levels of being, to support and encourage collective healing.

Transpersonal psychology includes elements of spiritual self-development and awareness of one's higher self, beyond the ego. The theory attempts to integrate and describe spiritual experiences within a modern psychological framework. By discussing and working with peak and mystical experiences, spiritual evolution and crises, altered states of consciousness, spiritual practices, and the exploration of magical and synchronistic experiences, individuals are supported in identifying their personal beliefs. This approach validates and honors sacred experiences that often remain unexpressed in today’s society.