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Understanding Therapy Modalities

Pathways to Mental Wellness

Discover effective therapy modalities tailored to your needs. From CBT to DBT, find the right techniques to support your mental health journey.


Play Therapy

Play therapy is a pivotal tool to aid children in expressing emotions and overcoming challenges. Using toys as their language, children work through feelings of confusion, anxiety, and grief in a secure setting. This approach empowers them with coping strategies for life's challenges, enhancing resilience and worldview while involving parents to support their child's therapeutic journey and progress.

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EMDR Therapy

EMDR Therapy addresses and alleviates the psychological stress of trauma by combining eye movements with other sensory inputs to reprocess traumatic memories, making them less distressing. This method integrates various therapeutic approaches, helping individuals reframe negative experiences and promote emotional healing. It is particularly effective for PTSD, anxiety, and other stress-related conditions, offering a scientifically backed method to regain control over emotional responses.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Foundations offer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a transformative approach enabling individuals to identify and alter detrimental thought patterns and behaviors. Through structured sessions, clients learn practical strategies to manage depression, anxiety, and other conditions, promoting lasting mental health improvements. CBT's evidence-based methods focus on equipping clients with skills for better emotional regulation and proactive problem-solving, enhancing overall well-being and life satisfaction.

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Art Therapy

Art therapy integrates creative expression with traditional counseling techniques at Foundations to foster deep emotional healing and self-discovery. This approach allows individuals to articulate feelings and conflicts through artistic creation, providing a unique and effective therapy modality. Art therapy helps address psychological issues by externalizing emotions and promoting personal growth and transformation. It’s designed for all skill levels, ensuring that anyone can benefit from the therapeutic power of art, regardless of artistic experience.​

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PTSD Therapy

Specialized PTSD therapy helps individuals manage intense emotional responses to trauma using techniques like CBT, EMDR, and narrative therapy. This treatment reduces trauma's emotional burden, promotes healing, and supports functional recovery. Tailored to individual needs, it helps overcome persistent distress, fostering emotional resilience and a more fulfilling life. Therapy sessions aim to restore a sense of safety and control.

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ADD & ADHD Therapy

Therapy for ADD and ADHD is focused on enhancing attention, reducing impulsivity, and managing hyperactivity through well-structured strategies and coping mechanisms. Suitable for individuals of all ages, this therapy improves daily functionality and academic success, fostering better relationships and personal growth. Cognitive behavioral treatment aids clients in understanding and changing their thought patterns and behaviors, leading to significant life enhancements and self-empowerment.

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Life Coaching

Life coaching empowers you to clarify your goals, identify your values, and pursue meaningful success in personal and professional areas. Our coaches provide structured support to help you navigate life transitions and build confidence, fostering a proactive approach to challenges. This personalized coaching experience aligns your actions with your deepest aspirations, enabling sustained personal growth and achievement.

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides practical tools and strategies for those struggling with intense emotions and self-destructive behaviors. Our experienced therapists offer personalized DBT services to help you manage emotions, reduce harmful behaviors, and enhance relationships. With a focus on mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness, DBT can transform your mental health journey. Reach out today to start your path to well-being.

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Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a powerful approach designed to improve relationships by addressing underlying emotional and attachment issues. Our skilled therapists at Foundations provide a supportive environment where individuals and couples can explore their emotions, identify negative patterns, and foster secure, lasting bonds. Through EFT, you can achieve deeper connections and greater emotional well-being. Schedule your consultation today to start your journey towards a healthier relationship.

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Internal Family Systems Therapy

Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) offers a groundbreaking way to achieve emotional healing and self-discovery. By understanding and harmonizing your inner parts, IFS helps you resolve internal conflicts, heal past traumas, and cultivate self-compassion. Experience greater emotional balance and well-being through this transformative therapeutic approach.

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Reunification Therapy

Reunification therapy is designed to mend and strengthen disrupted parent-child relationships. Our experienced therapists use structured interventions to address underlying issues, enhance communication, and resolve conflicts. We help families rebuild trust and create a supportive, loving environment through individual and joint sessions. Start your journey towards a healthier family dynamic with our specialized reunification therapy services.

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Inner Child Work

Inner child work is a counseling approach that helps you reconnect with and care for the younger parts of yourself that still carry old hurts, unmet needs or harsh messages from childhood. In one on one sessions at our Fort Collins office or online anywhere in Colorado, Foundations counselors gently help you understand where people pleasing, perfectionism, self criticism and fear of rejection began, and practice giving yourself the warmth, safety and support you may have missed growing up.

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps you stop fighting difficult thoughts and feelings and put your energy into living by your values instead. In one on one sessions at our Fort Collins, Loveland and Windsor offices or online anywhere in Colorado, Foundations counselors use ACT for anxiety, depression, stress, chronic pain and life transitions, teaching mindfulness, acceptance and defusion skills that loosen the grip of painful thoughts so you can take meaningful action, even when emotions are hard.

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Mindfulness-Based Therapy

Mindfulness-based therapy teaches you to notice your thoughts, feelings and body sensations in the present moment without judgment, so you can respond to life instead of reacting on autopilot. In one on one sessions at our Fort Collins, Loveland and Windsor offices or online anywhere in Colorado, Foundations counselors bring mindfulness practices into counseling for anxiety, stress, depression, anger and racing thoughts, helping you build calm, focus and self compassion through skills you can use anywhere.

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Somatic Therapy

Somatic therapy is a body centered counseling approach that recognizes how stress and trauma are held in the body as well as the mind. In one on one sessions at our Fort Collins and Loveland offices or online anywhere in Colorado, Foundations counselors use gentle grounding, breath work and body awareness to help you notice tension, panic or shutdown as it happens and settle your nervous system, supporting healing from trauma, anxiety and chronic stress without needing to relive every detail of the past.

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Dreamwork

Dreamwork is a counseling approach that explores your dreams and recurring images as a window into feelings, conflicts and stress you may not notice when awake. In one on one sessions at our Fort Collins, Loveland and Windsor offices or online anywhere in Colorado, Foundations counselors help you reflect on what your dreams bring up, connect them to what is happening in your life, and use those insights in talk therapy, offering a creative, curious path for people working through grief, change or anxiety.

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Music in Therapy

Music in therapy uses songs, lyrics and playlists as tools inside talk therapy to help you reach and express feelings that are hard to put into words. In one on one sessions at our Fort Collins, Loveland and Windsor offices or online anywhere in Colorado, Foundations counselors bring music into sessions for teens and adults working through grief, anxiety, depression and stress. This is music used within counseling, not a separate service from a board certified music therapist.

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Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a form of cognitive behavioral therapy that helps you identify and challenge the rigid beliefs, such as must, should and can't stand it, that fuel anxiety, anger, guilt and shame. In one on one sessions at our Loveland and Windsor offices or online anywhere in Colorado, Foundations counselors use REBT and the ABC model to help you respond to setbacks with more flexible, realistic thinking, so difficult situations stop controlling how you feel and act.

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Narrative Therapy

Narrative therapy helps you separate yourself from your problems and look at the stories you have been told, and tell yourself, about who you are. In one on one sessions at our Fort Collins office or online anywhere in Colorado, Foundations counselors help you notice the strengths and values that problem stories hide, loosen the hold of labels like failure or broken, and author a story that fits who you want to be, an approach that works well for depression, trauma, life transitions and identity questions.

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Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

Solution-focused brief therapy is a goal oriented counseling approach that focuses on what is already working in your life and what you want next, rather than spending most sessions on the past. In one on one sessions at our Fort Collins and Loveland offices or online anywhere in Colorado, Foundations counselors help you define clear goals, notice small exceptions to the problem and build practical next steps, a good fit for stress, life transitions, relationship concerns and people who want focused, efficient counseling.

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Person-Centered and Humanistic Therapy

Person-centered and humanistic therapy puts you in the lead. In one on one sessions at our Fort Collins, Loveland and Windsor offices or online anywhere in Colorado, Foundations counselors offer warmth, empathy and acceptance without judgment, creating a space where you can explore your feelings, values and choices honestly and discover your own answers. This approach supports people working through self esteem, life changes, grief, anxiety and the desire to grow into a more authentic version of themselves.

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Strength-Based Therapy

Strength-based therapy focuses on the skills, values, resilience and support you already have, rather than only on what is wrong. In one on one sessions at our Fort Collins and Loveland offices or online anywhere in Colorado, Foundations counselors help you recognize what has gotten you through hard times before and use those strengths to cope with stress, depression, setbacks and change, drawing on positive psychology to build confidence, hope and practical momentum toward the life you want.

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Psychodynamic Therapy

Psychodynamic therapy helps you understand how past experiences, early relationships and feelings outside your awareness shape your present emotions and patterns. In one on one sessions at our Fort Collins office or online anywhere in Colorado, a Foundations counselor helps you notice repeating themes in relationships, work and self image, make sense of where they began, and gain the insight that makes lasting change possible, a thoughtful approach for depression, anxiety and relationship difficulties.

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Motivational Interviewing

Motivational interviewing is a collaborative counseling approach for people who feel two ways about making a change, whether that is drinking, substance use, a habit, health goals or a big decision. In one on one sessions at our Windsor office or online anywhere in Colorado, your Foundations counselor helps you explore your own reasons for change without lectures or pressure, strengthen your motivation and plan next steps that fit your life and values, so change happens on your terms.

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Biofeedback

Biofeedback informed counseling helps you notice how stress and anxiety show up in your body, such as a racing heart, shallow breathing or muscle tension, and learn to calm those responses. In one on one sessions at our Loveland office or online anywhere in Colorado, Foundations counselors combine talk therapy with breathing, relaxation and body awareness skills to help with stress, anxiety, sleep problems and tension. Ask when you reach out what tools your counselor uses in sessions.

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Gestalt Therapy

Gestalt therapy is an experiential, present focused counseling approach that helps you become more aware of what you are feeling, thinking and doing right now. In one on one sessions at our Fort Collins office or online anywhere in Colorado, Foundations counselors use techniques such as role play and focused awareness to help you work through unfinished business from the past, notice old patterns as they happen, and make more conscious choices in relationships and daily life.

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Animal-Assisted Therapy

Animal-assisted therapy brings a trained therapy animal into the counseling process to help clients feel calmer, more comfortable and more open, especially when talking feels hard. At the Foundations Loveland office, it is offered on a limited basis within one on one talk therapy for anxiety, trauma and stress, and the same counselor also sees clients online anywhere in Colorado. Ask when you reach out whether animal-assisted work is available and right for you, including any allergies or fears.

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Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI)

Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) is a trauma informed, attachment based approach developed at the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at TCU for children who have experienced adversity. In one on one sessions at our Fort Collins office or online anywhere in Colorado, Foundations counselors use TBRI informed principles of connecting, empowering and correcting to support adoptive, foster and kinship families, helping caregivers build trust, reduce challenging behaviors and help kids feel safe.

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Existential Therapy

Existential therapy helps people facing life's biggest questions about meaning, purpose, freedom, loss and mortality, especially after a major change, a loss or a sense that life no longer makes sense. In one on one sessions at our Loveland office or online anywhere in Colorado, a Foundations counselor offers space to explore what matters most to you, face uncertainty with more courage, and make choices that feel authentic, an approach suited to grief, life transitions and feeling stuck.

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