Modality guides
Core ideas, session structure and techniques across therapy models.
Cognitive & behavioral
Thoughts and behavior as the lever. Largest evidence base across anxiety, depression, OCD, and insomnia.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interlocking — change one and the others move.
Best for: Depression · Anxiety disorders · Panic
Exposure and Response Prevention (for OCD)
Approach what you fear; resist the ritual; let the brain relearn safety.
Best for: OCD · Health anxiety · Specific phobias
Schema Therapy
Integrative therapy for chronic patterns rooted in unmet childhood needs.
Best for: Personality disorders (esp. BPD, NPD, avoidant) · Chronic depression/anxiety with characterological features · Treatment-resistant cases
Third-wave & mindfulness
Acceptance, defusion, and values instead of symptom-fighting. Mindfulness as the active ingredient.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Stop fighting your inner experience; start moving toward what matters.
Best for: Chronic pain · Depression · Anxiety
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Acceptance and change, held together — a skills-based therapy for emotion dysregulation.
Best for: Borderline personality disorder · Chronic suicidality/self-harm · Eating disorders
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
An 8-week group program that uses mindfulness to prevent depressive relapse.
Best for: Recurrent depression (3+ episodes) · Residual depressive symptoms · Anxiety
Compassion-Focused Therapy
Build the capacity for self-compassion in clients dominated by shame and self-criticism.
Best for: Chronic shame · Self-criticism · Depression with self-attacking
Trauma processing
Protocol-based therapies that work directly on traumatic memory and its meaning.
Cognitive Processing Therapy
A 12-session protocol for PTSD that targets stuck points — the beliefs trauma left behind.
Best for: PTSD (combat, assault, MVA, childhood) · Moral injury · Complex traumatic grief
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Reprocess stuck traumatic memories using bilateral stimulation while holding the memory in mind.
Best for: PTSD · Single-incident trauma · Phobias
Prolonged Exposure for PTSD
Repeatedly approach the trauma memory and avoided reminders until they lose their grip.
Best for: PTSD (single & multiple-incident) · Combat trauma · Sexual assault trauma
Somatic & nervous system
Bottom-up work — sensation, breath, movement, autonomic state. The body as the entry point.
Somatic Experiencing
Trauma lives in the nervous system; healing happens by completing thwarted survival responses.
Best for: Single-incident trauma · Medical trauma · Developmental trauma (with adaptation)
Somatic Therapy — an umbrella guide
Body-led therapies that treat the nervous system, not just the narrative.
Best for: Trauma and PTSD · Chronic dysregulation · Anxiety with strong somatic signature
Nervous System Regulation — clinician guide
How to read autonomic state in the room and help a client return to ventral.
Best for: Trauma · Chronic stress and burnout · Anxiety and panic
Parts & ego state
Internal multiplicity models. Working with parts of self that hold trauma, protection, or wisdom.
Couples & relational
Repair, attachment, and the conversation between two nervous systems.
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
Forty years of observational research on couples, translated into a structured therapy.
Best for: Couples in distress · Conflict gridlock · Affairs (with Trust Revival)
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples
Distress is an attachment cry; therapy creates new bonding events that reshape the bond.
Best for: Couples in distress · Trauma in relationships · Anxious-avoidant dynamics
Brief, narrative & interpersonal
Short-term, story-shaped, or relationship-focused. Fits primary care, mild-to-moderate, or short courses.
Motivational Interviewing
Evoke the client's own reasons for change instead of arguing for it.
Best for: Substance use · Health behavior change · Treatment ambivalence
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Build the preferred future instead of analyzing the problem.
Best for: Brief contexts (EAP, school, primary care) · Goal-focused work · Client strengths-building
Narrative Therapy
The person is not the problem — externalize, deconstruct, and re-author the story.
Best for: Identity-bound problems · Eating disorders · Trauma
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Depression is treated by working on the interpersonal context that surrounds it.
Best for: Major depression · Perinatal depression · Bulimia
Condition-specific
Modality-adjacent care for chronic pain, IBS, FND, and PNES — where the nervous system is the patient.
Chronic Pain Therapy & Pain Reprocessing
Chronic pain is often a learned brain prediction — therapy retrains the alarm.
Best for: Primary chronic pain · Fibromyalgia · Chronic back pain
IBS & Gut-Brain Axis Therapy
IBS lives on the gut-brain axis — gut-directed hypnotherapy and CBT change the conversation.
Best for: IBS (all subtypes) · Functional dyspepsia · Cyclic vomiting
Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (Functional Seizures)
Functional seizures are a brain-network disorder, not faking — and they respond to specific therapy.
Best for: PNES / functional seizures · Co-occurring PTSD and dissociation · Mixed epileptic + functional seizures
Functional Neurological Disorder Therapy
FND is a software problem in a working brain — treatable with the right multidisciplinary approach.
Best for: Functional motor symptoms (weakness, tremor, gait) · Functional sensory symptoms · PNES / functional seizures