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Providing Evidence-based treatments including
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing, Ego-States exploration, Prolonged Exposure, Exposure & Response Prevention, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Family Systems Therapy and related clinical mental health services
to adults, teens, children, couples and families.
802-441-6343 (Vermont) 269-873-1216 (Michigan)
Welcome
Effective therapy can empower individuals to make meaningful changes and lead fulfilling lives. Stoneybrook Behavior Health clinical staff combine proven practices, collaborative treatment planning, and a warm, supportive approach to help our clients reach their specific goals. We offer decades of clinical experience helping individuals of all ages navigate each chapter of life.
Through the use of evidence-based, outcomes-driven approaches including Eye Movement and Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Ego-States work, Prolonged Exposure (PE), Exposure & Response Prevention (ERPT), Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) and Family Systems Therapy, we ensure our clients leave sessions with an awareness of why they feel or behave in certain ways, along with the tools, skills and confidence to solve immediate problems, prevent conflict, address future challenges and feel more of the way they want to feel.
Our Approach
Trauma-Informed and Healing-Centered Engagement
Trauma-informed care shifts the focus from “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?” or "What's hard about this situation?" Healing-centered engagement explores the question "What's right with you?"
Trauma-informed and healing-centered approaches actively recognize the impact chronic stress, failures of attunement, interpersonal conflict, societal pressures, and traumatic events can have on our identity, health, beliefs, thoughts, emotions and behavior. Experiences that feel emotionally and/or physically unsafe or invalidating, especially early ones, shape the way our autonomic nervous system responds to perceived threats in the world. Unpleasant memories are stored within distinct neural networks in the brain and manifest as automatic physiological sensations, thoughts and behavioral reactions when those networks are activated. This is why humans can react very quickly to simple environmental cues such as a change in voice tone, facial expression, smell, etc. EMDR and ego-state work (IFS) help clients differentiate and integrate these neural networks to achieve healing within the psyche. A skills-based approach (CPS) helps clients clarify their values and needs, communicate hopes and concerns, establish boundaries, and cultivate environments and relationships that help them maintain their gains and to feel more of how they want to feel.
EMDR and/or Ego-states/Parts work is indicated when a client presents with a tendency to:
Intellectualize emotional experiences rather than feeling them
Avoid situations and experiences that could activate a vulnerable feeling state or difficult memory
Engage in perfectionism or controlling/compulsive behavior in an attempt to feel a sense of control or create predictability and stability
Become consumed in productivity, work, or achievements
Exhibit co-dependence or "rescuing" of people or animals, as a surrogate for feeling able to rescue a vulnerable part of themselves
Throw "temper tantrums"/exhibit emotional dysregulation
Engage in excessive drug or alcohol use, binging and purging eating patterns or anorexia, risky sexual behaviors or impulsivity
Experience repetitive, distressing intrusive thoughts or images.
Eye-Movement, Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
Eye-Movement, Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is a structured therapy that encourages the patient to focus briefly on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements), which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and PTSD symptoms. Ongoing research supports positive clinical outcomes, showing EMDR therapy as a helpful treatment for disorders such as anxiety, depression, OCD, chronic pain, addictions, and other distressing life experiences (Maxfield, 2019). EMDR therapy has even been superior to Prozac in trauma treatment (Van der Kolk et al., 2007).
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is an outcomes-focused, structured form of psychotherapy that has been scientifically tested and found to be highly effective for a broad range of psychological and health concerns including anxiety and depression. CBT grew out of the observation that they way people perceive a situation is deeply connected to their reaction to that situation. CBT helps clients evaluate their prior experiences, emotions and thoughts, and evaluate the extent to which their thoughts are realistic and helpful. Clients learn to challenge and change distorted thinking and unhelpful core-beliefs, habits or behaviors.
Collaborative Problem Solving & Family Systems Therapy
Collaborative Problem Solving & Family Systems Therapy
Family systems therapy recognizes that a family is more than the sum of its parts. When something affects one member of the group, it can have a resounding impact on every other member of the group. For that same reason, the strength and stability of a family unit can provide balance and support when one family member is experiencing problems. Family systems therapy helps clients understanding why individuals within a family unit may be behaving in certain ways.
Collaborative Problem Solving® (CPS) is a structured approach proven to improve family relationships, and help individuals build regulation, problem-solving, perspective-taking and communication skills.
You’ll learn how to partner with the people important in your life to identify triggers for challenging behaviors, reduce those behaviors and work together to develop a plan for how to handle problems before they happen. CPS can help you better understand and help your child, partner and other family members.
Integrative, Ego-States Parts Work & Mindfulness
Integrative, Ego-States Parts Work & Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a mental skill set that comes from the practice of being "with our Self" and keeping our attention focused on the present moment in a relaxed and nonjudgmental fashion. Noticing both the external environment and internal states with curiosity, compassion, clarity and calm.
"Ego-states" refers to the compartmentalization of our feeling states, beliefs, memories and personality.
The goal of ego-states/parts work is to facilitate integration between the various "parts" of a person's internal psyche so that the calm, curious Self can be available without becoming hijacked by strong emotional states, reactive behavior, or negative thoughts.
What we treat
Family Services
Couples Counseling
If you, your child or other family member...
feel depressed anxious, or overwhelmed,
are experiencing relationship/peer difficulties,
struggle with the urge to self-harm,
avoid school, work or other activities,
have difficulty regulating emotions,
are struggling with chronic pain or loss of ability,
are abusing substances,
can be oppositional or defiant,
or are coping with other stressful life circumstances,
Call or email us to learn how we can help.
Professional Fees
Our hourly rate is $175 per session for individual, couple or family therapy. Our initial assessment fee is $195. Our contracts with insurance companies require that we accept their reimbursement rates as payment in full. In addition to regular appointments, we reserve the right to charge for other professional services such as report writing, telephone conversations, attendance at meetings, consultations with other professionals which you have authorized, preparation of records, treatment summaries, or the time required to perform any other service which you may request of us. These services may or may not be covered by insurance. Your provider will be happy to discuss any of these details with you.
Insurances Accepted
If you do not see your insurance carrier listed below, you can inquire with your carrier about the possibility of out-of-network reimbursement for services.
If you are experiencing an immediate crisis, please call 911, go to your nearest emergency department, or call the National Suicide Lifeline at 988 or 800-273-8255
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