therapy

Erik has the most experience helping individual adults navigate and mitigate anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and unfulfilling relationships. He also helps clients with antisocial personality disorder, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, family conflict, men's issues, military to civilian transitions, and veterans' issues. He does not work with clients with suicidality, and he doesn't work with couples.  

The primary therapeutic models Erik uses are cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). CBT encourages clients to embrace facts, evidence, reasoning, and logic. It's not designed to forcefully change clients' thoughts. Instead, CBT explores the question, "Are you subjectively feeling or objectively observing?" ACT replaces the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of personal values. It replaces the habit of doing what we want with the habit of doing what's best.

Secondary therapeutic models Erik uses include systems (examination of relationships and support), strengths-based (exploration of assets and allies without an obnoxious "silver linings" theme), narrative (verbal processing of trauma), and action-oriented (blueprinting action that results in clients feeling less bad).