Insomnia Treatment
Insomnia Treatment
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A short term, effective, first-line treatment for Insomnia. Often only needing four to eight sessions of therapy, CBT-I addresses behavioral and cognitive issues that keep insomnia chronic.
Treatment includes:
Psychoeducation on the biology of sleep, what regulates the sleep/wake cycle, the cause of insomnia, the theory of chronic insomnia.
Behavioral elements such as adjusting what is happening when with bedtimes/waketimes, what to do if you are awake, and how to cope with behaviors that perpetuate insomnia.
Cognitive support such as identifying sleep interfering thoughts, busting myths about sleep, managing worries in bed and learning to de-stress the sleep process through our thinking.
Depression & Generalized Anxiety Treatment
Depression & Generalized Anxiety Treatment
Evidence Based Psychotherapy for the treatment of Depression is shown to be an effective way to learn to manage symptoms and issues related to Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. These issues can include mood issues, worries, difficulty engaging with life, avoidance, sleep disturbance, isolation, communication difficulties, and problems managing life stressors.
Your therapist will work with you to identify your specific treatment needs and collaboratively decide on the right treatment plan and pathway for you. Treatment options include the following:
A first line treatment recommended by APA's Clinical Practice Guidelines for Depression.
Treatment Timeframe: 12-16 sessions, weekly, 50-60 min.
CBT focuses on how thoughts, feelings and behaviors are tied to functioning in our world and aims to modify the unhelpful thinking and behavioral patterns that impair one’s functioning.
A first line treatment recommended by APA's Clinical Practice Guidelines for Depression.
Treatment Timeframe: 12-16 sessions, weekly, 50-60 min.
ACT integrates and updates principles from traditional cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to promote psychological flexibility, which is the ability to fully experience the present moment while taking value-driven actions
A newer Cognitive/Behavioral treatment, the UP is growing in research support for efficacy, and usefulness in the treatment of emotional disorders. A transdiagnostic approach, seeks to target the underlying emotional dysregulation that exists across different diagnoses.
Treatment Timeframe: 12-16 sessions, weekly, 50-60 min.
UP is a mix of cognitive, behavioral, and mindfulness tools/strategies that helps to better understand emotion, and understand how the response to emotion may be part of the problem. Learn to monitor feelings, thoughts, behaviors; confront uncomfortable emotions; and learn more effective ways of coping.
A first line treatment recommended by APA's Clinical Practice Guidelines for Depression.
Treatment Timeframe: 12-16 sessions, weekly, 50-60 min.
The goal of IPT is to reduce depression, improve quality of life, and enable an individual to better handle life problems that are connected to the depression. IPT focuses on understanding and improving your relationships with others. Learn communication skills, manage/process emotions, and improve your relationships with others as a means of treating depression and improving wellbeing.
Anxiety Treatment
Anxiety Treatment
Specific Anxiety Disorders
Specific Anxiety Disorders
May include Panic Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Phobia Disorders, or Generalized Anxiety. The following Evidence Based Psychotherapies are available for treatment of these issues:
May include Panic Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Phobia Disorders, or Generalized Anxiety. The following Evidence Based Psychotherapies are available for treatment of these issues:
A Cognitive/Behavioral treatment focused on learning how to face agoraphobic situations and the physical symptoms of panic from a new perspective. Learn skills such as breathing techniques, thinking skills, and breaking up the negative cycle of panic and agoraphobia.
From the Treatments that Work series by Oxford University Press, treatments that are rigorously tested in clinical trials and are backed by years of research to be efficacious and safe.
Recommended by the APA and the International OCD Foundation, Exposure and Response Prevention is a specific type of cognitive/behavioral intervention that has strong evidence to be the most effective and first-line therapy in the treatment of OCD.
From the Treatments that Work series by Oxford University Press, treatments that are rigorously tested in clinical trials and are backed by years of research to be efficacious and safe.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Generalized Anxiety, Social Anxiety, or Phobias.
Dr. Stickney also offers therapy for the treatment of many other specific or general types of Anxiety. She will talk through treatment planning to give you options of different treatment pathways that can help with your specific treatment goals. Often, we could talk about CBT, ACT or Unified Protocol for these issues. See the Depression Section for more information on these specific therapies.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment
A first-line treatment for PTSD recommended by the American Psychological Association.
Treatment Timeframe: 12-16 sessions, weekly, 50-60 min.
A cognitive/behavioral treatment that helps by learning to challenge and modify unhelpful beliefs related to one or more traumatic events.
A first-line treatment for PTSD recommended by the American Psychological Association.
Treatment Timeframe: 9-16 sessions, weekly, 90 min.
A cognitive/behavioral treatment that helps individuals to confront fears, and gradually approach trauma-related memories, feelings and situations.
Has been accepted as a second-line treatment for PTSD by the VA/DOD Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Treatment Timeframe: 5 sessions, weekly, 50-60 minutes.
A newer version of cognitive therapy for PTSD that helps approach the trauma memory through a written exposure task.
A CBT-mixed modality where individuals who have experienced trauma learn how to identify and manage their emotions, improve distress tolerance, and improve interpersonal relationships.
Evidence is mixed for STAIR as a standalone treatment of PTSD, though some individuals find exploring the topic of trauma through building emotion regulation and interpersonal skills helpful. STAIR sometimes is a helpful treatment in conjunction with an overall journey of recovery from PTSD.
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