Adult Psychology

At Rocky Mountain Healing Center, we utilize a strengths-based approach to psychotherapy. The behaviors sometimes presented as “dysfunctional” were often helpful survival mechanisms at some time. We believe in empowering clients to focus on their strengths, in order to discover new and more useful patterns of behavior. Believing in the inherent wisdom of the individual, therapy thus serves as a road map, illuminating the path so the client can make conscious choices. Our intervention strategies are integrative, ranging from cognitive-behavioral therapy to mind-body techniques, tailoring treatment to address the individual needs of each client.

Our overall theoretical orientation is psychodynamic, which assumes that the interplay of conscious and unconscious forces shape and motivate behavior. This model tends to emphasize emotional experience as key to personality functioning and stresses the relationship between therapist and client as a crucible for change. Primary focus is on the human psyche’s tendency toward wholeness and therapy is viewed as a journey to self-actualization through integration of opposing tendencies and increased awareness of the collective unconscious. Although many instincts and motivations are universal, it is our behaviors to satisfy the motivation that are unique.

Our approach to treatment and intervention respects the inherent nature of the individual, and the need for cultural sensitivity, always accounting for the client’s culture, lifestyle, interpersonal relations, personal history, biology, environment and bodily sensations.