Therapeutic Approach

To see exactly which of these approaches each of our clinicians specializes in, visit our therapists' individual bio pages for a complete list of their modalities and specialties.

Foundational & Relational Approaches

Systems Theory & Family Systems Therapy

We ground much of our work in Systems Theory and Family Systems Therapy, which look beyond the individual to the relationships and environments shaping emotional and behavioral patterns. By exploring the dynamics within families and close relationships, clients gain insight into recurring challenges and build healthier ways of connecting.

Best for: Clients whose struggles are tangled up in family patterns, couples work, or recurring relational conflict.

Learn more: What Is Systems Theory?

 

Attachment-Based Therapy

Attachment-based therapy looks at how our earliest relationships shape the way we connect, trust, and regulate emotion as adults. By understanding your attachment patterns, we can work together to build more secure, satisfying relationships — with others and with yourself.

Best for: Clients working through relationship anxiety, trust issues, or patterns that trace back to early caregiving experiences.

Learn more: What Is Attachment-Based Therapy?

 

Psychodynamic Therapy

Psychodynamic therapy explores how past experiences, unconscious patterns, and early relationships continue to influence present-day thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It's a reflective, insight-oriented approach for clients who want to understand not just what they're feeling, but why.

Best for: Clients drawn to deeper self-understanding and exploring the roots of long-standing patterns.

Learn more: What Is Psychodynamic Therapy?

 

Cognitive & Behavioral Approaches

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT helps clients identify and shift unhelpful thought patterns that fuel anxiety, depression, and overwhelming emotion. It's a practical, skills-based approach that builds tools you can use well beyond the therapy room.

Best for: Clients wanting structured, goal-oriented tools for managing anxious or depressive thought patterns.

Learn more: Online CBT at Freesia

 

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

DBT combines cognitive-behavioral techniques with mindfulness and distress tolerance skills. It's especially effective for intense emotions, helping clients build resilience and healthier coping strategies without judgment.

Best for: Clients navigating emotional intensity, self-harm urges, or difficulty regulating strong feelings.

Learn more: Online DBT at Freesia

 

Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)

TF-CBT gently and gradually helps the brain reprocess traumatic memories while challenging the distorted beliefs trauma often leaves behind. It's a structured, evidence-based path toward reducing fear responses and building new, healthier coping pathways.

Best for: Clients ready to process specific traumatic experiences with clinical structure and support.

Learn more: TF-CBT and the Brain

 

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT helps clients make peace with difficult thoughts and feelings rather than fighting them, while committing to actions aligned with their values. It blends mindfulness with practical behavior change for a life that feels more authentic and less stuck.

Best for: Clients feeling stuck in avoidance patterns or wanting a values-driven approach to change.

Learn more: What Is ACT?

 

Trauma-Informed & Body-Based Approaches

Somatic Therapy

Somatic therapy recognizes that trauma and chronic stress live in the body, not just the mind. Through sensation tracking, breathwork, and nervous system education, clients move out of survival patterns and into a felt sense of safety — not just an intellectual understanding of it.

Best for: Clients who understand their triggers intellectually but still feel stuck in their body's stress response.

Learn more: Somatic Therapy at Freesia

 

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

IFS helps clients understand the different "parts" of themselves — the part that feels hopeless, the part that pushes forward, the part that wants to escape — without judgment. It builds a compassionate relationship with every part of you, honoring that each one developed for a reason.

Best for: Clients navigating internal conflict, self-criticism, or trauma responses that feel at odds with each other.

Learn more: Online IFS at Freesia

 

Seeking Safety

Seeking Safety is a present-focused model for clients navigating trauma and substance use together. Rather than requiring detailed processing of past events, it builds practical coping skills — grounding techniques, boundary-setting, trigger identification — that create stability right now.

Best for: Clients managing trauma and substance use at the same time, or who want a gentler entry point into trauma work.

Learn more: Seeking Safety at Freesia

 

Experiential Therapy

Experiential Therapy uses action-based techniques — role-play, guided imagery, expressive exercises — to help clients access and process emotions that talking alone doesn't always reach.

Best for: Clients who feel "stuck in their head" or find that traditional talk therapy only goes so far.

Learn more: What Is Experiential Therapy?

 

Narrative Therapy

Narrative Therapy helps clients separate themselves from the problems they're facing, exploring the stories they've internalized about who they are and rewriting the ones that no longer serve them.

Best for: Clients whose sense of identity has been shaped by a difficult diagnosis, experience, or inherited narrative.

Learn more: Narrative Therapy at Freesia

 

Skills-Based & Present-Focused Approaches

Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing helps clients clarify their own values and find their internal motivation for change — especially useful when a client feels ambivalent about a next step. It's collaborative, not directive: your therapist walks alongside you rather than pushing from behind.

Best for: Clients feeling ambivalent about change, especially around substance use or major life decisions.

Learn more: What Is Motivational Interviewing?

 

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

SFBT shifts the focus from analyzing problems to building solutions. Rather than dwelling on the past, sessions focus on your desired future and the strengths you already have — with small, achievable goals that build momentum quickly.

Best for: Clients who want a brief, forward-looking approach and are ready to identify concrete next steps.

Learn more: Feeling Stuck? Read More

 

Mindfulness-Based Approaches

Mindfulness-based approaches teach clients to observe thoughts, feelings, and body sensations without being overwhelmed by them. These practices build present-moment awareness that supports emotional regulation across nearly every other modality we offer.

Best for: Clients wanting practical tools for anxiety, overwhelm, or racing thoughts.

Learn more: What Is Mindfulness-Based Therapy?

 

Approaches for Children

Play Therapy

Play Therapy gives children a safe, developmentally appropriate space to express themselves and work through challenges — using play as the language kids communicate in most naturally, long before they have the words for what they're feeling.

Best for: Children who need a developmentally appropriate way to process emotions, transitions, or difficult experiences.

Learn more: What Is Play Therapy?

 

Finding the Right Fit

Whether you're navigating anxiety, trauma, relationship issues, or a life transition, our therapists bring empathy, clinical expertise, and a holistic lens that honors the connection between mind, body, and spirit. You don't need to know which modality is right for you before you reach out — that's what your free consultation is for.

Every clinician on our team brings their own blend of training and specialties. Visit our therapists' bio pages for the complete list of modalities and specialties each one offers.