The idea of “traditional psychotherapy” means different things to different people, but is generally thought of as “talk therapy,” and focuses on the human mind and behavior. Traditional psychotherapy utilizes a variety of evidence-based techniques to help people with a wide range of mental and emotional challenges that occur in every day life. This includes coping with troubling thoughts, stress, trauma, medical illness or loss, depression, anxiety and much more. Because this is an enormous field, many separate branches of psychology have developed therapeutic interventions that focus on specific issues within the study of the mind, the brain and human behavior. Each of these subdivisions has a different perspective, but all have the goal of helping to eliminate or control troubling symptoms, while increasing mental health and well-being. When utilizing traditional psychotherapy, I focus on modalities that identify and work with individual strengths, help facilitate wanted changes and support positive cognition, such as: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Brief Solution Focused Therapy (BSFT), to name a few. I incorporate these and a wide range of clinical tools and perspectives into my practice sessions, wherever appropriate and also offer complementary modalities, such as Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy and Healing Touch, which include all aspects of our being.