Cathy Clay

Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)

I often utilize CBT when I am dealing with individuals that are experiencing negative cognitions due to depression, anxiety, etc. I assist the clients with understanding how their thought life controls their overall mood and how a negative thought pattern does harm. We then seek to address these maladaptive thoughts and reprocess their meaning and validity.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

I utilize tapping techniques that encourage the client to embrace their emotion and how they can learn through EFT to sit with the emotion, which is a way of validating the emotion, bringing about healing which helps tobetter managing and understand heir emotions.

Faith based therapy

I encourage my client to share their belief systems, which can become an anchor for successful growth and development. I am a women of faith and believe that faith has the ability to promote healing, and growth.

Humanistic

By using a humanistic lens, it enables me to be more culturally sensitive and person-centered.

Schema Therapy

Schema helps the client and therapist to understand the client's current thought process that derives from past traumatic events in which, from a child's perspective, they develop a belief about themselves that can be maladaptive. Schema therapy is utilized when we have identified the negative thought that we develop as a result of an event. For example, if a parent leaves the home, the child feels abandoned; thus, the schema of abandonment is a great force and informs every decision when it comes to trust in relationships.