Treatment Approaches at Root & Restore Therapy Center
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Personalized, Trauma-Informed Therapy in California
At Root & Restore Therapy Center, I believe therapy should reflect your needs, experiences, and goals.
Our work is collaborative, compassionate, and tailored to you. Together, we’ll explore what brings you to therapy and choose approaches that help you build understanding, strengthen relationships, and move toward meaningful change.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive behavioral therapy explores the connection between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. We’ll look at patterns that may contribute to anxiety, depression, stress, or relationship difficulties and practice more balanced, flexible ways of responding.
CBT can include identifying unhelpful thoughts, building coping skills, and trying practical strategies between sessions. The goal is to help you respond to challenges with greater awareness and confidence.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Mindfulness-based therapy encourages you to notice your thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations with curiosity and less judgment. Instead of becoming caught up in worries about the future or painful experiences from the past, we practice connecting with the present moment.
Depending on your comfort level, our work may include grounding exercises, mindful breathing, and everyday awareness practices. These tools create opportunities to pause, recognize your needs, and respond with greater intention.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a structured approach designed for children and adolescents experiencing difficulties related to trauma. When appropriate, it includes participation from a safe, supportive caregiver.
TF-CBT combines coping skills, emotional awareness, cognitive strategies, and gradual processing of traumatic experiences. The work emphasizes safety and proceeds thoughtfully, with attention to the young person’s readiness and needs.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Emotionally Focused Therapy explores the emotions and attachment needs beneath relationship patterns. Couples may find themselves caught in repeated cycles of conflict, withdrawal, or disconnection while longing to feel understood and supported.
Drawing from EFT, I help partners recognize these patterns, communicate vulnerable feelings, and practice responding to each other with greater openness. Our work focuses on building emotional safety and connection.
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
Gottman Method couples therapy focuses on friendship, communication, conflict management, and shared meaning within a relationship.
Using Gottman-informed tools, we can explore recurring disagreements, practice repair after conflict, and strengthen everyday connection. Sessions help partners better understand each other’s needs and develop practical ways to navigate challenges together.
Attachment-Based and Attachment-Informed Therapy
Attachment-based and attachment-informed therapy explores how early relationships and life experiences influence your expectations of closeness, trust, and support.
Together, we may examine patterns such as fear of abandonment, difficulty relying on others, or discomfort expressing your needs. This approach encourages greater self-understanding and more secure, satisfying ways of relating to yourself and others.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Solution-focused therapy emphasizes your strengths, existing resources, and the changes you want to make. Alongside understanding the problem, we explore times when things feel more manageable and what helps those moments happen.
Together, we’ll identify realistic goals and small, meaningful steps toward them. This approach makes room for progress without requiring every part of your past to be explored first.
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational interviewing offers a collaborative space to explore mixed feelings about change. You may want something to be different while also feeling uncertain, overwhelmed, or hesitant about taking the next step.
I help you clarify your values, consider your options, and identify your own reasons for change. Your autonomy remains central as we explore a direction that feels meaningful and achievable to you.
Person-Centered Therapy
Person-centered therapy is grounded in empathy, authenticity, and respect for your lived experience. You bring valuable insight into your life, and therapy provides a supportive space to explore it.
I aim to help you feel heard and accepted as you process emotions, understand your needs, and make decisions that align with your values. Your voice and goals guide our work.
Somatic-Informed Therapy
Somatic-informed therapy brings attention to the connection between emotional experiences and sensations in the body. We may explore how you notice stress, tension, or a sense of safety and use that awareness to support your therapeutic goals.
Depending on your preferences, sessions may include grounding, gentle breath awareness, and noticing physical cues. Practices are introduced collaboratively and adapted to your comfort, especially when trauma or chronic illness affects how you experience your body.
You deserve a space to feel supported.
⎯⎯ WHEN YOU’RE READY
You don’t need a perfect plan. Just a place to start.
A thoughtful first step, at your own pace.