Your Path to Healing

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) encourages the client to focus briefly on a difficult memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements or tapping), which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion related to the memory. It does not require talking in detail about the distressing issue, which can be relieving to the client; allowing the brain to resume its natural healing process. 

In addition to work with her own clients, Margaret offers adjunct EMDR therapy which is intended to complement the current and ongoing work individuals are doing with their primary therapist. Margaret partner's with therapists to help their clients resolve traumatic memories that are causing looping or a standstill in traditional talk therapy.   It is short term, typically 4-8 sessions, and designed to assist in moving treatment forward. 

Used For:

• Trauma
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Eating disorders
• Grief and loss

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches skills for managing intense emotions, navigating relationships, and finding balance.  The “dialectic” in dialectical behavior therapy is an acknowledgment that real life is complex, and health is not static but an ongoing process worked out through a continuous dialogue with the self and others.  By way of mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness clients learn to manage their emotions, improve their relationships and increase their overall quality of life.

 

Used For:

• PTSD
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Eating disorders/Body image
• Life transitions

Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)

Internal Family Systems (IFS) brings balance and harmony to the individual by healing wounded parts within the psyche.  This restoration of the authentic self allows for increased confidence, clarity, connectedness, courage, calmness, playfulness, patience, and presence.  

 

Used For:

• Eating disorders/Body image
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Trauma
• Grief and loss
• Life transitions

Narrative Therapy

Narrative therapy recognizes the events that occur throughout a person’s life are impactful and can shape one’s identity.  From this perspective, the individual learns they are the experts regarding their own life and how they can uncover the dreams, values, goals, and skills that define who they are, separate from their problems. These are the buried narratives that can be uncovered and woven into the ongoing and future stories of their lives.

Used For:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Trauma
• Grief and loss
• Life transitions
• Eating disorders/Body image

Grief and Loss

Grief is a natural response to loss and is experienced in a variety of ways.  Therapy provides a supportive and safe space for individuals to express and process their grief, as well as explore their feelings and thoughts related to the loss.

 

Contact Margaret Offenbacher, LPC, for any questions or to schedule an appointment.