Therapy Designed Around You
Therapy starts with your concerns, your goals, and what matters to you. We work together to choose an approach that fits your needs and adjust it as you make progress.
You do not need to choose a therapy method before calling. Some sessions focus on practical skills, others on difficult experiences, relationships, or finding meaning.
Our therapists have different training. Not every therapist offers every approach listed below. Ask us about a specific method or let us help you find a good fit.
Building Skills and Creating Change
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT helps you understand the connection between your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Together, you and your therapist will identify unhelpful thinking patterns, develop healthier ways of responding to challenges, and build practical skills you can use in everyday life.
In a session: You might look at a recent stressful moment, explore the thoughts that came up, and practice a different response.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT teaches you how to respond differently to difficult thoughts and emotions rather than letting them control your life. Instead of striving to eliminate uncomfortable feelings, you’ll learn to accept them while taking meaningful action toward the life you want to live.
In a session: You might identify what matters to you and choose one small step you can take, even with uncomfortable feelings present.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
DBT provides practical tools for managing overwhelming emotions, improving relationships, tolerating distress, and staying present in the moment. It is especially helpful for people who experience intense emotions or want to strengthen emotional regulation and coping skills.
In a session: You might practice a grounding skill, plan for an emotionally intense moment, or rehearse asking for what you need.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes your strengths, resources, and goals. Rather than spending all of your time focused on problems, you’ll work with your therapist to identify what’s already working and build practical solutions that help you move forward with confidence.
In a session: You might notice a time when the problem felt more manageable and use what helped to plan your next step.
Healing from Difficult Experiences
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is an evidence-based therapy that helps the brain process traumatic or distressing memories so they become less emotionally overwhelming. As memories are processed, many people experience relief from symptoms of trauma, anxiety, grief, and other difficult life experiences.
In a session: Your therapist will explain the process, help you build coping skills, and discuss readiness before beginning memory-focused work.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
ART is a research-supported therapy that uses guided eye movements and visualization techniques to help reduce the emotional impact of distressing memories. Many clients experience meaningful relief without needing to repeatedly discuss painful events in detail.
In a session: Your therapist may guide eye movements and imagery while checking in with you about your comfort and experience.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
TF-CBT helps children, adolescents, and their caregivers heal after traumatic experiences. By combining trauma-sensitive interventions with practical coping skills and caregiver involvement, this approach helps young people feel safer, more resilient, and better equipped to move forward.
In a session: A young person and caregiver may learn coping skills and gradually work through difficult experiences with the therapist’s support.
Strengthening Relationships
Attachment-Based Therapy
Our earliest relationships shape the way we experience trust, connection, conflict, and emotional safety throughout life. Attachment-Based Therapy helps clients understand these patterns, heal relationship wounds, and develop healthier, more secure connections with themselves and the people they care about.
In a session: You might explore what happens when you feel hurt or disconnected and practice expressing your needs.
Family Systems Therapy
Families influence how we think, communicate, and cope with life’s challenges. Family Systems Therapy explores the patterns and dynamics within relationships, helping family members improve communication, strengthen connection, and work together toward healthier ways of relating.
In a session: You might map a recurring family disagreement and explore how each person can respond differently.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Emotionally Focused Therapy helps couples recognize the negative cycles that keep them feeling disconnected and replace those patterns with greater understanding, trust, and emotional closeness. By strengthening the emotional bond between partners, couples often experience deeper connection and healthier communication.
In a session: You and your partner might slow down a familiar argument to understand the feelings and needs underneath it.
Gottman Method
Based on decades of relationship research, the Gottman Method teaches couples practical skills for improving communication, managing conflict respectfully, rebuilding trust, increasing friendship, and creating a stronger partnership that can weather life’s challenges together.
In a session: You might practice listening, making a repair after conflict, or rebuilding everyday moments of connection.
At Lighthouse, we believe healthy relationships are worth investing in. While every situation is unique and safety always comes first, our goal is to help individuals, couples, and families strengthen communication, deepen understanding, and build relationships that can grow and heal over time.
Discovering Meaning and Growth
Narrative Therapy
Narrative Therapy recognizes that people are more than the problems they face. Together, you’ll explore the stories you’ve come to believe about yourself, recognize your strengths, and begin creating a new story that reflects hope, resilience, and the life you want to build.
In a session: You might explore a limiting story about yourself and look for experiences that show more of your strengths and possibilities.
Person-Centered Therapy
Healing begins with feeling genuinely heard and understood. Person-Centered Therapy provides a compassionate, accepting environment where you can openly explore your experiences, discover your strengths, and build greater confidence, self-awareness, and personal growth.
In a session: You can talk openly about what matters to you while your therapist listens carefully and helps you explore your own direction.
Existential Therapy
Life’s challenges often lead us to ask deeper questions about purpose, identity, relationships, and what truly matters. Existential Therapy provides a space to explore these questions with honesty and compassion. Together, you and your therapist will examine your values, navigate life’s uncertainties, and discover greater meaning, purpose, and direction.
In a session: You might talk about identity, choices, loss, or purpose and consider what living by your values could look like.
Faith-Informed Counseling (Upon Request)
For clients who desire it, our therapists can thoughtfully incorporate your faith, spirituality, and personal beliefs into the counseling process. We respect people of all faiths, cultures, and backgrounds, as well as those with no religious affiliation. Faith is never assumed or imposed. Instead, it is integrated only when it is meaningful to you and supportive of your counseling goals.
Finding the Right Approach
Your first appointments are a chance to share what brings you in, ask questions, and discuss a plan with your therapist. You can talk about what feels helpful and what you would like to do differently along the way.
We welcome people of all faiths and backgrounds. If you want faith included in counseling, let your therapist know.
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