IT'S TIME TO MOVE FORWARD -
IT'S TIME TO MOVE FORWARD -
Individual Therapy
We offer individual therapy for ages 12 and up, tailored for you or your adolescent. In individual therapy, we help you overcome personal challenges, mental health issues, and emotional difficulties. You will work directly with a licensed therapist in a confidential and supportive setting to explore thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
The primary goal of individual therapy is to facilitate personal growth, enhance self-awareness, and promote psychological well-being.
Individual therapy is beneficial for addressing a wide range of issues, including but not limited to: anxiety and depression, relationship difficulties, stress management, self-esteem and identity exploration, and behavioral concerns.
HOW IT WORKS
Through a collaborative process, individual therapy empowers you to navigate challenges with greater resilience and clarity. By working closely with a skilled therapist, you will achieve lasting improvements in your mental health and overall quality of life.
At Forward Healing, we provide a safe space for you to express yourself openly, gain insight into your experiences, and develop effective coping strategies. We utilize a variety of evidence-based techniques and modalities, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), relational therapy, and mindfulness practice, depending on your needs and goals. Individual therapy may also be combined with advanced therapist such as art therapy and EMDR.
Early Childhood Therapy
At Forward Healing Therapy, we recognize that children face unique challenges that require specialized support, especially during the critical developmental stage from birth to age 5, when 90% of brain development occurs. Our therapy services for ages 0-5 are designed to provide you with essential psychoeducation about your child's developmental needs while addressing emotional, behavioral, and developmental concerns with compassion and expertise.
OUR SERVICES INCLUDE
Parent-Child Bonding: Support for challenges such as difficulties with bonding or post-partum mood disorders affecting attachment.
Anxiety and Trauma: Addressing heightened anxiety due to the current world environment, attachment trauma (such as adoption), or traumatic birth experiences.
Dyadic Therapy: Collaborative sessions with both parent and child to foster emotional regulation and familial healing.
Specialized Modalities: Utilizing Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Early Pathways, Theraplay, and, when appropriate, integrating therapy dogs to address anxiety and specific phobias.
HOW IT WORKS
Our experienced therapists create a safe and nurturing environment where children can explore their feelings, develop coping strategies, and build resilience. We engage parents in the therapy process to support positive growth and well-being, teaching them skills to maintain a secure attachment and ensure that therapeutic interventions are sustainable and impactful. By fostering strong caregiver-child relationships, we empower families to thrive both within and beyond the therapy room.
Expressive Art Therapy
At Forward Healing Therapy, we provide art therapy for individuals age 12 and older, offering a distinctive and effective approach to healing from challenging events, perinatal mental health issues, and various mental health struggles. Art therapy is an evidence-based practice that helps you express your feelings and experiences through art materials, colors, and symbolism, without the need for verbal communication.
WHAT TO EXPECT
No Artistic Skill Required: Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced artist, art therapy is accessible to everyone. The focus is on the therapeutic process of expression, not on the artistic outcome.
Emotional Benefits: Clients often feel "relaxed," gain "insight" into their experiences, and become "hopeful" about their healing journey through creating art. Art therapy helps engage sensory, kinesthetic, perceptual, and emotional aspects of your mind, providing comfort and insight when words are difficult.
HOW IT WORKS
You’ll collaborate with a trained art therapist to set goals for your therapy. During sessions, you will create art alongside your therapist, who will ensure you feel comfortable throughout the process. Optionally, you may also work on art-related tasks between sessions. Art therapy can be combined with other modalities like EMDR or individual therapy, tailored to your specific needs.
For more information on art therapy and evidence-based treatments, click here. Explore the expressive therapies continuum (ETC) levels here.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing)
We provide EMDR therapy to ages 12 and up, to help move forward after difficult experiences, such as social pressures, loss of loved ones, chronic illness, sexual abuse and witnessing stressful events. Trauma can also include ongoing exposure to a caregiver with mental health struggles or substance use, or exposure to a high level of parental control or criticism. EMDR is an evidenced-based intervention where we use bilateral movement (tapping, buzzers or eye movements) to help you process through traumatic material in a quicker way than traditional talk therapy.
Clients often report feeling “lighter,” feeling a “shift,” and feeling more “neutral” about the traumatic experience. Research studies and more information on EMDR can be found here.
HOW IT WORKS
During EMDR, you stay conscious and in the present (we say keep “one foot in the therapy room, and one foot in the past”). When we experience hard things, traumatic memory is stored in your body memory, cognitive (thinking) memory, and emotional memory. When we talk about the traumatic event, oftentimes we do not process what we felt in our bodies when the trauma happened (for example, racing heart or stomach ache). Using bilateral movement helps process through this traumatic material using all channels of processing, in an adaptive way.
It is essential that during EMDR you feel safe and supported by your therapist, and your therapist will always guide you and check in with you during processing. You are in control of the work, and your therapist is there is a guide and support to you.