Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): An evidenced-based cognitive behavioral therapy developed to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by helping individuals challenge and modify negative thoughts and beliefs about their traumatic experiences.

CPT helps people recognize how trauma has changed their view about themselves, others and the world and helps them develop new, more balanced perspectives. This treatment has been shown to help improve symptoms of PTSD and depression. Caregivers who receive CPT can experience reduced parenting stress and their children can show improvements in behavior. The average length of treatment is 8 to 14 sessions, but can vary person to person.

Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT): An evidenced-based treatment for children and adolescents (5-18) and their non-offending caregivers who have experienced trauma.

This therapy targets post-traumatic stress, depressive and behavioral symptoms. The average length of treatment is 8 to 25 weekly, 60 to 90 minute sessions. Maximum benefits are seen when the youth’s primary caregiver is involved in treatment.

Modular Approach to Therapy for Children (MATCH): An evidenced-based cognitive behavioral therapy protocol for children and adolescents (6-17) with symptoms of anxiety, depression, trauma, and disruptive conduct problems.

Therapists trained in this approach can treat over 80% of typical symptoms. Families also benefit from a better understanding of their child’s challenges and tools to help. MATCH is composed of 33 modules, or specific treatment procedures, based on decades of research. These modules are flexible enough to tailor treatment toward each child’s specific needs. MATCH can easily shift focus from one disorder to another (e.g. shift from anxiety to depression).

Problematic Sexual Behavior Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (PSB TF-CBT): An evidence-based treatment model for children and adolescents (7-16) who have engaged in problematic sexual behavior.

PSB-CBT effectively addresses a wide range of problematic and illegal behaviors, including failure to recognize socially acceptable physical boundaries, excessive masturbation, preoccupation with pornography and other sexualized content, generation and/or dissemination of sexualized images of self or others, and coercive and/or aggressive sexual acts.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Trauma focused psychotherapy that helps individuals process distressing memories, thoughts, and feelings related to trauma.

Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy, people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much like the body recovers from physical trauma.