Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a great way to focus on personal growth and well-being.
It allows for the exploration of thoughts, feelings, experiences, beliefs, and behaviors to gain insight into one’s self and the world around them. Receiving treatment from Mind Body Seven can provide emotional support as well as tools that can help break patterns of unhealthy behavior.
Mind Body Seven offers customized treatment plans so clients can receive tailored solutions for specific goals such as managing stress effectively or overcoming addiction. Overall, therapy provides an opportunity for individuals to make lasting improvements in their mind and body which brings about meaningful changes in their lives.
Whichever form of therapy you are looking for, we are here to help you reach your mental health goals. We also understand that those goals can change over time, and we adjust our methods based on your specific needs as you progress. If you are a first-time client who wants help deciding what kind of service is the best fit for you, then we are glad to help with that as well.
Individual Therapy
Psychotherapy is a treatment modality in which a trained psychotherapist forms a therapeutic relationship with an individual or individuals to create a safe place for exploring one's feelings, thoughts, and behaviors, and for finding new understanding and new freedom from old patterns. While psychotherapy usually relies on talking, other modalities like mind-body approaches, guided imagery, art therapy, and movement therapy can also be helpful.
Psychotherapy offers the opportunity to learn about automatic and unconscious patterns of thought and behavior and to learn how to be more authentic and individual. The work is coming to know yourself more and more deeply and through that gaining more freedom and choice in how you live your life.
Family therapy offers a chance to explore emotional and relationship issues as an interrelated group. Family members have the opportunity to discuss their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors alongside one another and process how that impacts the family system. In therapy, families work to better understand each other and work collaboratively on issues such as communication, conflict resolution, and intergenerational trauma.
Other reasons to seek family therapy might be due to parental divorce or separation, the birth of a new sibling, a death in the family, adolescent issues, or a new family configuration. The family therapist focuses on cycles of interaction between family members, highlights strengths and resources that already exist, hears everyone’s point of view, and sets a goal for therapy.
Family Therapy
Couples therapy acknowledges that every couple sometimes needs an outside voice to guide difficult conversations and increase understanding. Often, our vulnerabilities show up the most in our closest relationships. In couples therapy, couples work together to process their relationship challenges and highlight their strengths together and individually.
The couples therapist encourages awareness of how day-to-day interactions, past experiences, and families of origin may be shaping the relationship. Couples might seek therapy due to many reasons, including but not limited to: infidelity, communication issues, frequent conflict, discussions of separation, before becoming parents, navigating parenting a newborn or dealing with changes caused by the birth of a second child.
The goal of couples therapy is to track the cycle of interaction that leads to impasses and conflict. In a typical session, the therapist might assist by giving each person a chance to process their feelings, helping to map out the contributing factors that lead to conflict, or encouraging more productive patterns of communication.
Couples Therapy
Our Therapy Modalities
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DBT
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment that emphasizes finding the balance between accepting reality as it is, and changing unwanted behaviors, emotions, thoughts, and responses.
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EMDR
EMDR (Eye Motion Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a scientifically-proven therapeutic technique to help the body heal from trauma. EMDR allows for tapping into the innate capacity for self healing and recovery.
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Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a method of treatment that uses hypnosis to accomplish a specific goal by suggesting ways through suggestions, imagery, and metaphors to shift experience, perspective, and self control for desired changes.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a structured, skills-oriented talk therapy. CBT has proven effective in research studies for the treatment of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, personality issues, disordered eating, substance abuse, trauma, psychotic disorders, and many other conditions. CBT focuses on day-to-day problems, involves significant guidance from the therapist, and might include in-session practical exercises or homework assignments.
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Mind Body Therapy
Mind Body therapies recognize the bidirectional communication between our mind and our body. Our feelings, beliefs, thoughts, and expectations have an impact on our bodies and our minds. The meaning we give to various symptoms also affects our ability to heal.
Mind Body psychotherapies include mindfulness-based psychotherapy, stress reduction, hypnosis, guided imagery, affirmations, EMDR, biofeedback, somatic experiencing, yoga, breath work, and many other techniques that facilitate going beyond conventional talk therapy and tapping into the wisdom of the body and our subconscious mind to bring healing and growth.
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Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy is talk therapy that works to change maladaptive character and behavior patterns, resolve inner conflicts, and clarify unconscious forces behind distressing symptoms. Based in Brooklyn, Mind Body Seven clinicians incorporate a variety of psychotherapy approaches for personalized treatment.