Treatment Modalities
Gina Guddat is a Licensed Clinical Therapist who has the training and experience necessary to treat a wide variety of problems, conditions and disorders. She is passionate about relationship and marriage counseling, as well as helping couples work through family issues. Gina also provides expert treatment for depression, anxiety and other mood disorders using a variety of modalities.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
CBT is based on the idea that our thoughts, not external factors, cause our feelings and behaviors. The belief is that we can change the way we think in order to feel, act, or react better to external factors in our lives. With Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, you can learn to positively change the way you act or react to those external factors.The value of CBT is achieving effective, long-term methods to obtain positive results for the treatment of depression, anxiety, OCD and panic.
Lifespan Integration
Lifespan Integration is a new technique which promotes rapid healing in adults who experienced abuse and/or neglect during childhood. It relies on the innate ability of the body-mind to heal itself. Lifespan Integration is a very gentle method which works on a deep neural level to change patterned responses and outmoded defensive strategies. LI therapy helps people connect unpleasant feelings and dysfunctional patterns with the memories of the past events from which these feelings and strategies originated. Making these connections at a deep level of the body-mind ‘re-sets’ the neural system so that it is more in line with the current life situation.
Narrative Therapy
Throughout life, personal experiences become personal stories. People give these stories meaning, and the stories help shape a person’s identity. Narrative therapy uses the power of these stories to help people discover their life purpose. This is often done by assigning that person the role of “narrator” in their own story.
Solution Focused Therapy
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short-term goal-focused, therapeutic approach, which incorporates positive psychology principles and practices, and which helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems. In the most basic sense, SFBT is a hope friendly, positive emotion eliciting, future-oriented vehicle for formulating, motivating, achieving, and sustaining desired behavioral change.
Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt therapy is a holistic, person-centered form of psychotherapy that is focused on a person's present life and challenges rather than delving into past experiences. This approach stresses the importance of understanding the context of a person’s life and taking responsibility rather than placing blame. Gestalt therapy gives attention to how we place meaning and make sense of our world and our experiences.
Psychoeducational Therapy
Psychoeducation is a form of education that is specifically offered to individuals who are suffering from any one of several distinct mental health conditions impairing their ability to lead their lives. Through assignments, clients learn better road maps towards functioning in an optimal way. Ideally, the individual can be given more positive coping skills, resources, cognitive patterns and a sense of self-efficacy.
Lifestyle and Career Coaching
This type of counseling is beneficial for those seeking guidance and coaching to accomplish personal life goals. Clients will gain the skills needed to live a peaceful, balanced, and fulfilling life. In these sessions, patients could explore changes in their current careers, educational pathways to change their line of work, volunteer opportunities for greater meaning, relocation options, retirement plans and current lifestyle improvements. Create a pathway and begin the journey to finding purpose and a sense of wellbeing. This brings new meaning to the concept of the mind-body connection.
“I came to Gina in hope of gaining insight into the many overwhelming roles in life – daughter, mother, wife, student. What I found was support in recognizing a forgotten role – that of relationship with myself. This primary relationship was foundational, not only for my own well-being but the health of all other roles in life.” – Tina Johnson