Equanimity Partners Inc.
Psychotherapy Services
How We Help
How We Help
With openness, understanding, and compassion, we seek to learn about the unique contributors to each individual's concerns. We then choose among the best available assessment and therapy tools to address those difficulties to help people overcome them and move into wellbeing.
Difficulties We Treat
Depression
Anxiety and / or Panic
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Phobias
Substance Use
PTSD and/or history of trauma
Smoking
Caregiving burnout
Grief
Relationship issues
Weight loss and maintenance including adjustment to weight loss medications and/or surgeries
Emotional Eating
Chronic Pain or Illness
Sexual Dysfunction
Sexual Addiction
Internet Overuse
Identity concerns and marginalization
Health concerns
Death and dying
Our Treatments
We utilize shorter-term psychotherapy techniques that are evidence-based (i.e., supported by research showing they work) and have been found to assist clients in alleviating distress and cultivating psychological stability. These types of therapies are called cognitive behavioral therapies and include the following:
Traditional Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies – These therapies comprise the majority of evidence-based psychotherapy. Treatment interventions focus on problematic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Through therapy, people learn to change their relationship to thoughts, feelings, and sensations, which changes outcomes. Sometimes people learn to change their circumstances or actions directly.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy – ACT offers an experiential approach to behavior change that involves bringing awareness to the thoughts, feelings, and sensations that are connected to ineffective behaviors. Through therapy, clients learn to change their relationships with such thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations. Furthermore, ACT helps clients to identify the components of and commit to living a personally meaningful life.
Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapies – Mindfulness is a term used to describe a state of awareness that involves paying attention to what is going on in the present moment with an open, accepting stance. Mindfulness-based therapies are utilized to assist individuals in cultivating increased present-moment awareness and skillfulness. Such therapies can help individuals to develop resilience to life stress and can be used to help alleviate depression, anxiety, chronic stress and pain, emotional eating, and substance abuse.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy – DBT is a skills-based set of interventions that helps with chronically high emotion dysregulation and difficulty returning to neutral, along with interpersonal difficulties. It can be helpful for a variety of different concerns, and is especially helpful for people who were not able to learn emotion skills from their parents or caregivers.
