Therapy
The Massachusetts Mind Center team is comprised of clinicians with various training and backgrounds, giving us unique opportunities to meet our patients’ needs.
Deciding which therapeutic modalities will work best for you can be confusing, so feel free to ask our team if you have any questions about them.
MMC OFFERS:
Therapy Specialties
Please find the list below which highlights some of the therapies we offer:
Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Therapies
This approach focuses on bringing unconscious thoughts and feelings to the conscious mind so that repressed memories do not result in problematic behaviors, feelings, and thoughts.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
This approach focuses on irrational thinking or perception that leads to dysfunctions. By changing thought patterns, we can change how we feel and behave.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
This approach focuses on the seemingly opposite strategies of change and acceptance. DBT has two sets of acceptance-oriented skills: mindfulness and distress tolerance, and two sets of change-oriented skills: emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
This approach uses a collaborative, person-centered form of guiding to elicit and strengthen motivation for change. A central concept of MI is the identification, examination, and resolution of ambivalence about changing behavior. MI was created for substance use disorder but is also used to treat a variety of other conditions.
Holistic Therapies
This approach focuses on the whole person and their life experiences. The holistic therapist takes an integrative approach to healing the mind.
Expressive Therapies
This approach uses various forms of creative expression for patient healing that fosters self-awareness, creative thinking, and problem-solving. Some examples of expressive therapies are art, dance, and music.
Integrative Therapy
In this approach, the therapist blends elements of different modalities to the patient’s needs.
Internal Family System
This approach believes that individuals can not be fully understood without their internal family systems. IFS assumes that individuals have different parts and how each part reacts to each other.
Mindfulness-Based Therapies
Mindfulness is a practice of developing a deeper awareness of what is happening within one’s mind and body from moment to moment in a non-judgmental manner. Mindfulness techniques include the following:
Mindfulness Yoga: The main focus of this practice is on mind-body awareness, creating an alert focus on whatever an individual is doing in that exact moment and transforming the movement into a form of meditation.
Mindfulness Meditation: In this type of meditation you focus on increasing awareness of what you are feeling in the moment. This involves breathing, guided imagery as ways to reduce stress and relax the body and mind.
Couples Therapy
This approach works to improve relationships by recognizing and resolving conflicts. It can help couples strengthen their relationship and built trusting closeness.
Group Therapy
It involves a clinician-led group of patients leads by one or more clinicians meeting weekly. Group members find it beneficial to learn from other members going through similar situations and help build support networks and perspectives.
*In the near future we will be offering mindful yoga, meditation, and expressive art therapy groups.