Our Therapeutic Approaches
Integrating Evidence-Based Therapy With Holistic Healing
At Holistic Counseling, we believe that true healing encompasses the entire self—mind, body, and spirit. Our approach combines evidence-based therapeutic methods with holistic practices to create comprehensive, personalized healing experiences.Rather than relying on a single treatment modality, we draw from a diverse toolkit of approaches tailored to your unique needs. Our therapists are trained in multiple therapeutic methods, allowing us to adapt our approach as your healing journey evolves.Our Proven Methods
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Accelerated Resolution Therapy offers a rapid, gentle approach to processing traumatic memories, often providing significant relief in just 1-5 sessions. Similar to EMDR, ART uses eye movements to help the brain reprocess disturbing memories, but with distinctive features that can accelerate healing. With ART, you can retain factual knowledge of what happened without emotional distress, replace disturbing images with pleasant visualizations, and process memories without sharing detailed accounts. This innovative approach is effective for trauma, anxiety, depression, and phobias.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps you create a rich, meaningful life while accepting the inevitable pain that comes with being human. Through ACT, you'll learn to develop psychological flexibility, practice mindful awareness of thoughts and feelings without being controlled by them, clarify your core values, and commit to actions that create a fulfilling life. This approach is particularly effective for anxiety, depression, stress, and situations where avoidance of difficult emotions has become limiting.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and transforming negative thought patterns that contribute to emotional distress and problematic behaviors. Through CBT, you'll learn to recognize automatic negative thoughts, challenge unhelpful thinking patterns with evidence-based reasoning, develop more balanced perspectives, and build practical coping skills for managing difficult emotions. This structured, goal-oriented approach provides tools you can apply in daily life, creating lasting change beyond the therapy room.
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EMDR is a powerful therapy for processing traumatic memories and resolving their lasting emotional impact. Using bilateral stimulation (typically guided eye movements), EMDR helps your brain reprocess disturbing memories to reduce their emotional charge. The 8-phase protocol helps you develop resources for emotional stability, process traumatic memories without extensive verbal recounting, transform negative beliefs about yourself, and release stored emotions and physical sensations tied to past events. EMDR has been recognized worldwide as an effective treatment for trauma.
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Integrative Life Coaching combines coaching fundamentals with diverse healing modalities addressing mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellness. Unlike traditional coaching that focuses primarily on goals and action steps, this integrative approach acknowledges how inner barriers, limiting beliefs, and unresolved emotional patterns can interfere with creating positive change. By addressing both practical steps toward your goals and the inner work needed to support transformation, integrative coaching helps you create sustainable change aligned with your deepest values and authentic self.
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Internal Family Systems therapy offers a compassionate framework for understanding and healing inner conflicts. IFS recognizes that the mind naturally organizes itself into distinct "parts" or sub-personalities, each with positive intentions for your wellbeing. Through IFS, you'll learn to identify different parts of your internal system, access your core "Self" and its qualities of curiosity and compassion, develop relationships with protective parts, heal vulnerable parts carrying emotional wounds, and create greater harmony within your internal system.
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Solution-Focused Brief Therapy concentrates on building solutions rather than analyzing problems. This forward-looking approach helps you identify and amplify your existing strengths and resources to create positive change. SFBT helps you focus on your goals and preferred future, identify exceptions to problems (times when things work better), build on existing strengths, create concrete steps toward desired outcomes, and measure progress through observable changes. This pragmatic approach is ideal for clients seeking focused, time-limited therapy with concrete results.
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Trauma Therapy focuses on helping you process and heal from disturbing or overwhelming experiences that continue to impact your daily life. Our approach to trauma integrates multiple evidence-based methods including EMDR, ART, somatic approaches, and parts work to address trauma's effects on your mind, body, and nervous system. We create a safe, supportive environment where you can work through traumatic memories and their aftermath at your own pace, developing resources for regulation, processing difficult experiences, and rebuilding a sense of safety and empowerment in your life.
Plus a Holistic Approach
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Animal-Assisted Therapy incorporates interactions with animals into the therapeutic process, creating opportunities for emotional connection, mindfulness, and skill development. Working with animals helps you practice mindful presence, develop healthy boundaries and communication, experience unconditional positive regard, observe your reactions in real-time, and build confidence through new skills. This experiential approach often helps clients who struggle with traditional talk therapy or benefit from interactive learning experiences that engage multiple senses.
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Equine Assisted Therapy involves working with horses who often mirror or react to your internal emotional states, providing immediate feedback about your presence, energy, and communication. Horses are highly sensitive to nonverbal cues, making them exceptional partners for developing self-awareness, authentic communication, boundary-setting, and leadership skills. This powerful approach can reveal patterns and emotions that might remain hidden in traditional therapy, offering transformative insights and growth opportunities in a unique context that engages mind, body, and spirit.
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Experiential Therapy is an umbrella term that covers many holistic approaches to healing such as art, poetry, music, hiking, animals, etc. It will incorporate tools and activities to recreate situations to identify the emotions that arise. With the guidance of a professional experiential therapist, the client can explore these feelings and begin to release these feelings
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Holistic Therapy approaches you as a whole being with interconnected emotional, physical, cognitive, and spiritual dimensions. Rather than treating isolated symptoms, we address the underlying patterns and imbalances that contribute to distress across all aspects of your experience. This integrated approach might incorporate mindfulness practices, somatic awareness, nutritional support, movement, spiritual exploration, and conventional therapeutic techniques based on your unique needs and goals. By honoring your complete being, holistic therapy fosters deeper self-understanding, authentic expression, and comprehensive wellbeing.
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Mindfulness-Based approaches help you develop present-moment awareness and a non-judgmental relationship with your thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations. These evidence-based practices have been shown to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression while enhancing overall wellbeing. Our mindfulness interventions include guided meditation, breathing practices, body scan exercises, mindful movement, present-moment awareness in daily activities, and self-compassion practices. These approaches help you develop greater awareness, acceptance, and choice in how you respond to life's challenges.
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Therapeutic Art incorporates creative expression into the healing process, providing alternative pathways for processing emotions and experiences that might be difficult to express verbally. Through drawing, painting, collage, and other visual arts, you can externalize internal experiences, explore metaphors and symbols that represent your journey, bypass cognitive defenses that may block healing, and discover new perspectives on challenges. Art therapy is particularly helpful for processing trauma, expressing complex emotions, and developing self-understanding through the creative process.
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Wilderness Therapy provides opportunities to work through challenges in natural settings, where the environment itself becomes part of the therapeutic process. Nature experiences offer powerful metaphors, moderate stress exposure that builds resilience, and a context for practicing new skills away from daily distractions. The wilderness setting challenges you to persevere, adapt to changing conditions, and discover inner resources you might not access in conventional environments. This approach is particularly effective for developing self-confidence, distress tolerance, problem-solving skills, and connection to something larger than yourself.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
Our Specialties
Anxiety Therapy
Effective strategies to calm your nervous system, transform worry patterns, and create a more peaceful relationship with uncertainty.
EMDR Therapy
Evidence-based treatment using bilateral stimulation to reprocess traumatic memories and release their emotional charge.
Sexual Assault Therapy
Compassionate, trauma-informed care for survivors of sexual trauma, focused on reclaiming safety, boundaries, and personal power.
Trauma Therapy
Specialized healing for traumatic experiences that addresses mind, body, and spirit to transform painful memories into integrated wisdom.
Depression Therapy
Holistic support to lift the weight of depression, reconnect with meaning, and rebuild your capacity for joy and engagement.
Rapid relief from traumatic memories through guided eye movements, often providing significant improvement in just a few sessions.
Domestic Violence Counseling
Specialized trauma therapy for survivors of domestic violence, helping you reclaim safety, empowerment, and healing.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Healing approach that helps you understand and harmonize different aspects of yourself, transforming inner conflict into collaboration.
Equine Therapy
Experience the unique healing power of equine therapy, where horses become partners in your therapeutic journey.
Substance Use Treatment
Compassionate, non-judgmental approaches to transform your relationship with substances and address underlying patterns.
Our Integrative Philosophy
What distinguishes our approach is not just the variety of methods we offer but how we integrate them into a coherent, personalized healing experience. Rather than applying techniques in isolation, we weave together diverse approaches based on your unique needs, preferences, and healing process.
We believe that healing happens in relationship—both the therapeutic relationship and your relationship with yourself. Our therapists create a safe, authentic connection where you can explore difficult experiences, develop new skills, and reconnect with your innate capacity for growth and transformation.
Throughout our work together, we emphasize:
Collaboration: You are the expert on your experience, and we are partners in your healing journey
Empowerment: Building skills and insights that support your autonomy beyond therapy
Wholeness: Honoring all aspects of your being—thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and spiritual dimensions
Flexibility: Adapting our approach as your needs evolve and different aspects of healing emerge
Integration: Helping you apply insights and practices in your daily life for lasting change
Finding Your Path to Healing
Whether you're seeking support for specific concerns like trauma, anxiety, or depression, or you're on a journey of self-discovery and growth, our integrative approach offers multiple pathways to healing and wellbeing.
We invite you to explore our specialized treatment pages to learn more about how we apply these approaches to specific concerns, or to schedule a free consultation to discuss which therapeutic methods might best support your unique healing journey.
Locations
Our Telehealth life coaching is available in all US states. Our current Telehealth therapists are certified to practice in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, and Florida. However, we may have recent certifications, new hires, or partners certified in your state.
Good Faith Estimate
Standard Notice: “Right to Receive a Good Faith Estimate of Expected Charges”
Under the No Surprises Act
Under Section 2799B-6 of the Public Health Service Act, health care providers and health care facilities are required to inform individuals who are not enrolled in a plan or coverage or a Federal health care program, or not seeking to file a claim with their plan or coverage both orally and in writing of their ability, upon request or at the time of scheduling health care items and services, to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” of expected charges.
This form may be used by the health care providers to inform individuals who are not enrolled in a plan or coverage or a Federal health care program (uninsured individuals), or individuals who are enrolled but not seeking to file a claim with their plan or coverage (self-pay individuals) of their right to a “Good Faith Estimate” to help them estimate the expected charges they may be billed for receiving certain health care items and services. Information regarding the availability of a “Good Faith Estimate” must be prominently displayed on the convening provider’s and convening facility’s website and in the office and on-site where scheduling or questions about the cost of health care occur.
To use this model notice, the provider or facility must fill in the blanks with the appropriate information. HHS considers use of the model notice to be good faith compliance with the good faith estimate requirements to inform an individual of their rights to receive such a notice. Use of this model notice is not required and is provided as a means of facilitating compliance with the applicable notice requirements. However, some form of notice, including the provision of certain required information, is necessary to begin the patient-provider dispute resolution process.
You have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” explaining how much your medical care will cost. Under the law, health care providers need to give patients who don’t have insurance or who are not using insurance an estimate of the bill for medical items and services.
· You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any non-emergency items or services. This includes related costs like medical tests, prescription drugs, equipment, and hospital fees.
· Make sure your health care provider gives you a Good Faith Estimate in writing at least 1 business day before your medical service or item. You can also ask your health care provider, and any other provider you choose, for a Good Faith Estimate before you schedule an item or service.
· If you receive a bill that is at least $400 more than your Good Faith Estimate, you can dispute the bill.
· Make sure to save a copy or picture of your Good Faith Estimate.
For questions or more information about your right to a Good Faith Estimate, visit www.cms.gov/nosurprises
