Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
Research has shown that couples who engage in treatment utilizing EFT can experience a 70% recovery rate from relationship distress, and an overall 90% increase in relationship satisfaction. The scope of EFT is to improve intimacy and emotional attachment when used in couples and family counseling. |
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Research has found that a persons distorted thinking influences their perception and reaction to a situation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy provides skills to modify such dysfunctional thinking. CBT is an evidence based treatment that has been shown to provide a lasting pattern of increased mood and function in individual, couples, and family counseling. |
The Gottman Method
The Gottman Method is a research based approach to increasing respect, intimacy, affection with your partner. This method provides a couple with skills to manage conflict, break ineffective fighting patterns, and turn toward your partner in a way that protects the relationship. The Gottman Method is proven to be efficacious in couples counseling. Bowen Family Systems Theory
The Family Systems Theory is a theory of human behavior that views the family as an emotional unit and uses the systems thinking to describe the complex interactions in the unit. The members of a family have a natural intense emotional connection. When the Family Systems Theory is applied in family counseling, the members of the relationship are protected through cohesiveness and cooperation. Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
Exposure and Response Prevention is research based treatment for anxiety disorders such as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Social Phobia, Panic Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and other phobias. ERP is designed to help an individual tolerate a perceived threat, and provide that individual with an ability to effectively manage the distress caused by the falsified danger. This is a behavioral approach, in individual therapy, that results in an ability to choose for oneself how to respond when provoked by anxiety. Dustin Hall is one of the few counselors in Bountiful, Utah who specializes in the use of ERP for anxiety disorders. |
Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Dialectic Behavioral Therapy provides therapeutic skills in four key areas: emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and assertiveness. These skills allow individuals to manage painful emotions and decrease relationship conflict. This treatment can be applied in individual, couples, and family therapy. Dustin Hall is a counselor in Bountiful, Utah who DBT. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is an empirically-based treatment designed to increase psychological flexibility by teaching an individual to incorporate commitment, mindfulness, behavioral-change, and acceptance strategies into their daily lives. ACT can be applied in individual, couples, and family counseling. |