Ascent Arts & Wellness offers a variety of therapeutic approaches, including:

• Expressive Arts Therapy: This modality uses various forms of creative expression to help individuals explore emotions, process experiences, and promote healing and personal growth. These therapies offer a non-verbal way to communicate and address issues, which can be particularly helpful for those who struggle to articulate their feelings verbally. Rather than emphasizing the final product's artistic quality, the focus is on the process of creating. Engaging in the creative process itself is considered therapeutic and can lead to insights and emotional release.

• PhotoTherapy/Therapeutic Photography: PhotoTherapy involves working together with a licensed clinician using personal photos, family albums, and other images to help clients explore their feelings, memories, and experiences. This process facilitates self-awareness, emotional processing, and communication. Therapeutic photography involves making images to enhance personal growth, self discovery and creative expression.

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): CBT is a goal-oriented approach that helps clients understand the connection between thoughts, feelings and behaviors. They learn to identify and challenge negative thought patterns that contribute to emotional distress.

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): This therapy focuses on developing skills in mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness to manage intense emotions and improve relationships.

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy: This therapy helps your brain reprocess distressing memories so they no longer cause such intense emotional reactions. By focusing on a memory while simultaneously engaging in bilateral stimulation (such as eye movements or tapping), you can reduce the emotional charge of the memory. This allows your brain to integrate the experience in a more adaptive way, leading to reduced distress and healthier responses to triggers. 

• Strengths-Based Therapy: This approach emphasizes identifying and building upon an individual's strengths and resources to promote resilience and achieve personal growth.

• Mindfulness-Based Therapy: Incorporating mindfulness practices helps individuals increase self-awareness, manage stress, and cultivate a sense of calm and presence. 

Contact us today to arrange a free 15 minute consultation to learn what to expect in our sessions, ask any questions you may have, and to see if we are a good match.

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