Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy aims to treat clinical problems such as anxiety disorders, depression, trauma, eating disorders, addictions, and various other psychological and psychiatric disorders.  Individuals utilizing psychotherapy are often experiencing serious emotional, behavioral, or physical distress. Psychotherapy at TBM begins with a formalized and standardized assessment and diagnosis. This will likely include clinical interviewing, standardized diagnostic measures, and a review of contributing historical factors. Treatment provides structured experiences, and sometimes homework assignments, designed to relieve specific cognitive and/or physical symptoms. Therapy is usually considered complete when your initial symptoms are significantly decreased or eliminated.  

Psychotherapy has both benefits and risks. Because the process of psychotherapy often requires discussing some unpleasant aspects of your life, risks may include experiencing uncomfortable feelings, such as: sadness, guilt, anxiety, anger, frustration, loneliness and helplessness. However, psychotherapy has been shown to have significant benefits for individuals who actively participate.  Therapy often leads to a significant reduction in feelings of distress, increased satisfaction in interpersonal relationships, greater personal awareness and insight, increased skills for managing stress and resolutions to specific problems.  As is common with any things in life, there are no guarantees about what your specific results from therapy will be.  Psychotherapy requires a very active effort on your part. In order to be most successful, you will have to work, outside of session, on things you and your provider have discussed.  

TBM provides clients with evidence-based treatments for their diagnosis (es). In other words, you’ll get a treatment that has been shown to work for hundreds of thousands to millions of other people with the same conditions.

Some examples of treatments that TBM provides are:

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Prolonged Exposure (PE), and many others.

Psychological Testing/Assessment

Testing involves the use of a variety of standard psychological tests to answer a wide variety of questions about diagnostics, learning disabilities, academic functioning, personality functioning, or coping styles. Throughout the assessment process you have the right to inquire about the nature or purpose of all procedures. You also have the right to know the test results, interpretations, and recommendations.

The assessment process generally involves an informational interview followed by the administration of two or more educational, psychological, or neuropsychological tests. Although it is sometimes possible to complete the testing procedure in one sitting, it is common for people to be asked to return for another session to finish the assessment battery.

Once testing is completed, the data will be analyzed and a report will be written. You will then have the opportunity to meet with your provider to discuss the results and receive a copy of the report. TBM’s general turnaround time for completed reports is two weeks.