Approach
Candice Goldberg LCSW, SEP
Approach
Finding the right therapist is the first step toward healing. Feeling comfortable, understood and accepted with a therapist is as important as the person’s training and specialty. The therapeutic relationship is not one-size-fits-all and I work in a manner that recognizes and enhances this uniqueness. Both the science of theory and the art of the therapeutic connection guide me in helping you to facilitate changes in your life. I integrate my training in relational therapy and trauma to offer a holistic approach toward treatment.
What is
Relational Therapy?
Relational Therapy explores the emotional and behavioral patterns of your family. It examines family history and how it relates to your present view of yourself and your relationships. By understanding these influences, you can make active changes to interrupt patterns and develop new ways of relating to yourself and others.
What is
Emotionally Focused
Couples Therapy (EFT)?
Emotionally focused therapy is a couples therapy based on the scientific study of adult love and bonding processes in couples. EFT is designed to address distress in our adult intimate relationships. EFT helps couples connect and improve emotional attachment by helping people better understand both their own emotional responses and those of their partner.
The goal of EFT is to help facilitate the creation of secure, lasting bonds between partners and reinforce any preexisting positive bonds, with the goal of helping couples increase security, closeness, and connection in intimate relationships.
What is
Somatic Experiencing?
Somatic experiencing is a therapy aimed at relieving the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental and physical trauma-related health problems by focusing on a person’s perceived body sensations (or somatic experiences).
Somatic Experiencing attempts to promote awareness and release physical tension that remains in the aftermath of trauma. The goal is to allow the client to resolve the physical and mental difficulties caused by the trauma, and thereby to be able to respond appropriately to everyday situations.
Somatic experiencing is used for both shock trauma and developmental trauma. Shock trauma is loosely defined as a single-episode traumatic event such as a car accident, natural disaster such as an earthquake, battlefield incident, physical attack, etc. Developmental trauma refers to various kinds of emotional pain that occur during child development when a child has insufficient or detrimental attention from the primary caregivers.
What is
EMDR Therapy?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method which uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain process trauma. EMDR is proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorders.
(EMDRIA.ORG)
What Is bilateral stimulation in EMDR?
Bilateral stimulation is one of the key components in EMDR. In the most common form of treatment, the client focuses on a traumatic memory and the negative thoughts or feelings associated with that memory. The client then follows with their eyes while the therapist moves their finger in front of them from left to right. Alternatively, the therapist may choose to use other types of bilateral stimuli. The hypothesis is that doing this allows the client to access and reprocess negative memories, eventually leading to decreased psychological arousal associated with the memory.[4] Therapy then focuses on fostering a positive belief or emotion in the client. (Wikepedia.com)
Please watch the video below for more information about EMDR Therapy.
(EMDRIA.ORG)
What Is bilateral stimulation in EMDR?
Bilateral stimulation is one of the key components in EMDR. In the most common form of treatment, the client focuses on a traumatic memory and the negative thoughts or feelings associated with that memory. The client then follows with their eyes while the therapist moves their finger in front of them from left to right. Alternatively, the therapist may choose to use other types of bilateral stimuli. The hypothesis is that doing this allows the client to access and reprocess negative memories, eventually leading to decreased psychological arousal associated with the memory.[4] Therapy then focuses on fostering a positive belief or emotion in the client. (Wikepedia.com)
Please watch the video below for more information about EMDR Therapy.