Isabel Kirk LPC

Symptoms like low energy and feelings of hopelessness can make the expectation of picking up the phone, scheduling an appointment, and talking to someone seems like insurmountable tasks. Take action now, it can become more difficult later. When you’re going through a tough time it’s normal to feel down for a while, emotions like sadness and grief help make us human. But if you’re feeling sad or miserable for long periods of time, you might suffer from depression.

Most people come to therapy thinking they have “communications problems.” And in fact they do, but skills or lessons are not going to solve the problem. Why? Because communication is not the problem. That is just one symptom of a deeper core relational problem: our attachment style. It is the way we connect, how we bond with other people and it is developed throughout our lives and influenced by our previous relationships. It is our unconscious relational map to the landscape of love.

The core of attachment therapy is to help you identify your Attachment style and its challenges. Therefore, by learning the exact language for each Attachment style and specific corrective experiences you can heal early wounds. Usually attachment underlies most of the other mental and emotional issues people look help for. A secure attachment shapes our future relationships, helps with emotional regulation and resilience through life.

The core of this modality is to help you identify your Attachment style and its challenges. Therefore, by learning the exact language for each Attachment style and specific corrective experiences you can heal early wounds. Secure attachment is the base of our future relationships, capacity for emotional regulation, and resilience through life.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is not family therapy. The mind is not a unit, but the sum of parts. That explains the complexity of our minds. Many times, we are feeling more than one feeling at a time and even contradictory ones. (Basics of dialectics). The name refers to each person’s internal community or “family” of psychological parts. Very often, our internal systems become organized around emotional pain, and how to manage it.

When life conditions are good, we thrive; when we’re under prolonged periods of stress or disturbing events happen, symptoms can develop. Why? Because under high levels of stress the brain can not process information normally and therefore, those experiences tend to get stuck in isolated neuropathways. EMDR therapy helps to process those frozen memories so the mind starts functioning at its best capacity and is able to deal with the present a situation at a time.