Types of therapy

The most common form of therapy — you’ll meet with your therapist either in person or over a secure, web-based video platform. Please do not hesitate to ask your therapist about anything.

Sometimes settling into therapy can be frightening. Opening up the most intimate parts of our lives requires trust, and we are willing to earn it.

Evolving significantly from its Freudian roots, psychodynamic psychotherapy is an emotional and relational discipline known for facilitating deep and long-lasting change. It has been validated as an effective therapy for complex problems often stemming from childhood trauma.

Clients meet with a therapist once or twice weekly to understand thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Key features include a focus on emotions and relationships, exploring attempts to avoid distress, identifying recurring themes and patterns, and exploring one’s inner life — including fantasies and dreams.

A holistic approach to healing with an emphasis on free will, emotional safety, and depth of understanding. Humanistic therapists guide you to understand the totality of your experience in a nonjudgmental way — helping you make decisions that are in touch with your emotions, values, and life goals.

EMDR is a state-of-the-art modality that combines somatic, psychodynamic, and cognitive therapy to combat the self-defeating, limiting beliefs that get us stuck in life. Oftentimes this requires reprocessing traumatic events — but not always.

EMDR can be powerful, and it has often been misused with neurodivergent clients, who can be flooded with traumatic material. We practice a form of EMDR adapted for neurodivergent brains: we go slowly, spending a great deal of time creating resiliency and safety before bringing up trauma.

A form of somatic therapy based on the most recent scientific understanding of trauma and recovery. TRM borrows the best tools from various therapeutic models and combines them into an accessible, straightforward therapy that can bring clients rapid relief from traumatic experiences.

PAT represents a new frontier in psychotherapy. Our therapists are trained in Ketamine-assisted therapy (legal in California and Colorado) and Psilocybin-assisted therapy (legal in Colorado).

Therapy focused on families as a whole, where the strengths of family members are used in solving problems and working together. Although individual therapy is the modality of choice for many, the majority of psychological challenges that bring people to counseling stem from problematic family relationships.

Miscommunications, differing needs and goals, different personality styles and temperaments — all of these have the potential to create an environment in which problems arise: anxiety, depression, meltdowns, and even psychosis in some cases.

“I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.”— Virginia Satir, family therapist

This ideal of an intimate relationship seems harder and harder to achieve. Our own traumas, unrealistic expectations, value clashes, and the constant distractions of everyday life can be toxic to our deepest, most important relationships. Conflicts arise, contempt and judgment prevail, and we begin to separate from one another. When blame surfaces and we become defensive, we lose track of the various forces in the background that affect our relationships — many of them not anyone’s fault.

Relationship therapy is a place to focus on each other, and to re-focus efforts to sustain relationships away from the distractions and stresses of everyday life.

One reason for conflict is differences in sexual desires and values. We practice from a sex-positive perspective — an attitude that accepts and celebrates the diversity of human sexual expression. Many therapists are quick to judge sexual behavior based on preconceived notions or an overly moralistic view of sexuality; we believe these cultural judgments universally lead to negative treatment outcomes.

We work with couples, throuples, polycules, and kinky people. Whatever difficulties you may be experiencing in the realm of sexuality, you can be assured NeuroPathways is a shame- and judgment-free zone.

Expert consulting and education for families, practitioners, and organizations on psychodynamic case conceptualization, neurodiversity, and psychosis.

We provide in-person and virtual consultation and education to any size crowd, in many different contexts — consultation with other therapists, continuing education courses, conferences, and programming for businesses or school districts. Dr. Schwartz is recognized nationally as a trainer in psychological assessment and in working with neurodivergent people.

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