Deborah Redmond (She/Her)

Approach Description: We may use techniques of Behavioral Therapy to help you redirect energy from negative patterns to creating new positive patterns. We may use techniques of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help you understand how your ways of thinking may be holding you back and then work with tools to change how you are thinking. We may use techniques of Movement Therapy to help you with tools that enable you to perform movement exercises to shift your thinking, emotions, actions, etc. We may use techniques of Contemplative Psychotherapy blending Eastern and Western ideas of authentic self and wholeness. We will always be using Eclectic Therapy because we will creatively adapt and adjust to work together on whatever issues you are facing using whichever tools from whichever models are likely to be the most effective for you personally. We may use techniques of Family Systems Therapy recognizing that your family of origin and the relationships therein play an important part in your early and later life. We will use Existential / Humanistic Therapy when it is helpful to help you understand what are your personal reasons for being in this life as you experience it now and as you envision it looking forward. We may use Gottman Method Couples Therapy ideas when you want to work on your part of your relationships and/or if you attend Couples' Counseling Sessions (note: Couples' Counseling Sessions fall outside the scope of my Standard Sessions including outside of insurance, higher fees, and different scheduling/timing/duration of sessions. We use principles of Integrative Therapy in a similar way to Eclectic Therapy in that we flexibly adapt the models and tools to choose ones which are most effective for you as a unique person. We may use ideas of Motivational Interviewing to help you uncover your issues and make effective decisions of empowering you to realistic change. We use Multicultural Therapy tools and ideas as often as applicable as I work with a diverse population of Clients from varied ethnic and cultural backgrounds, races, sexualities, etc. We may use ideas of Narrative Therapy when it is helpful for you to separate your sense of self from your problem(s). We may use tools of Neuropsychology to help create new neuropsychological patterns that align better with your goals. We may use tools of Object Relations Therapy when it is helpful to change unhealthy relationship patterns into healthy relationship patterns. We may use the tools of Relational Psychotherapy if you need to understand and experience the importance of creating and maintaining healthy relationships in your life. We may use the ideas of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to efficiently work through issues in as few sessions as possible. We may use ideas of Somatic Therapy to understand and work with the connection between mind and body as it relates to the issues you are working on.