At Mindshift Center, our therapists use therapeutic approaches that fit your needs and preferences. Rather than one approach for everyone, your care is individualized, collaborative and paced to you.
Our therapists draw on interventions, tools and strategies that fit each client’s needs and preferences. This work is grounded in an understanding of human development, attachment theory, family systems, ecological systems theory and neuroscience. It also draws on humanistic, psychodynamic, narrative and relational frameworks.
Your therapist considers your concerns, experiences, relationships, strengths, ways of coping, functioning and goals, rather than assuming that a diagnosis, symptom or trauma history automatically determines treatment. Treatment is then adjusted based on what is helping.
Many different experiences can lead to trauma. For example, trauma symptoms often follow experiences like the ones listed here.
Going through one of these experiences doesn’t necessarily mean someone will develop trauma symptoms.
When trauma is part of what brings you in, treatment begins with establishing safety. From there, your therapist considers how past experiences may be affecting how you function today.
Trauma therapy at Mindshift Center is phase-oriented and sequential, and each phase is adapted to you. Learn more about our trauma-responsive care.
This list isn’t exhaustive, and not every approach is used with every client. Instead, your therapist works with you to find what fits.
Mindshift Center therapists use a range of evidence-based therapeutic approaches, including EMDR, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Trauma-Focused CBT, SPARCS and somatic psychotherapy. The approach is chosen to fit each client’s needs and preferences.
Your therapist at Mindshift Center considers your concerns, experiences, relationships, strengths, ways of coping, functioning and goals, rather than assuming that a diagnosis, symptom or trauma history automatically determines treatment. Treatment is then adjusted based on what is helping.
No. You don’t need to choose an approach ahead of time. Your Mindshift Center therapist will work with you to find interventions, tools and strategies that fit your needs and preferences.
Yes. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is one of the evidence-based approaches used at Mindshift Center in Quincy, Illinois. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain and body process distressing experiences.
Phase-oriented trauma therapy moves through treatment in a sequence, beginning with establishing safety. At Mindshift Center, trauma therapy also considers how past experiences may affect current functioning, and each phase is adapted to the individual client.
Yes. Mindshift Center offers affirming and inclusive services for the LGBTQ+ community and allies, alongside its other evidence-based therapeutic approaches.
Find the Approach That Fits You
Every person’s path looks a little different. Reach out when you’re ready, and we’ll talk through which therapeutic approaches may fit your needs and preferences. You don’t need a diagnosis to get started.
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