1. What is Emotion Focused/
Psychodynamic Therapy?

Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is an approach to psychotherapy that focuses on experiencing, expressing, and understanding 
emotions in a therapeutic setting. 
 

This involves recognizing and accepting your feelings without judgment, but with the spirit of allowing and self-compassion.

E-motions, motivate thoughts, actions, and urges, hence the importance of processing emotions effectively.
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EFT aims to help you understand the origins of your emotions, exploring how past experiences and relationships (like familial) may influence your current emotional responses. Looking into your past and your unmet needs makes this approach psychodynamic.​​​​​

2. What is Mindfulness-Based/
Somatic Based therapy?

Mindfulness or somatic based psychotherapy  centers around grounding individuals' physiological responses of unpleasant feelings like anxiety, stress, or trauma. These unpleasant feelings can overwhelm the body and nervous system. Somatic psychotherapy is about processing these unpleasant sensations with intention, discernment, acceptance, and mindfulness, We will work on building your "toolbox" of soothing "resources" to help your nervous system's inherent (or natural) self-regulatory capacity. 

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Symbols, metaphors, and the creative arts (including music, writings, and visual arts) may be used to explore your experience.​