Our Process
Cohealing Treatment Framework
Responsive Treatment Planning & Evolving Care
At Cohealing Center we co-create and implement highly attuned and dynamic treatment programs that move and change with your ever-changing needs.
Collaboratively, we build a sustainable healing ecosystem that can be integrated and maintained into the life you have in order to lead you to the life you want.
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Your treatment plan may include multiple forms of therapy and a variety of healing modalities to target specific symptoms or dynamics we are treating. Whether it’s EMDR, a sexual satisfaction coach, or even an executive-functioning coach–we believe in thinking outside of the box, exploring any and all potential tools available to create a highly customized treatment plan that bends in response to the shifting needs of the system as they fluctuate and pendulate throughout your treatment arc.
Our treatment system expands and contracts with your needs, taking into consideration the interplay among many factors such as existing medical conditions, phase of recovery, lifestyle and life changes, unexpected relapse, improvements in symptoms, improvement in the quality of relationships, and improved functioning of individuals and systems.
Nervous System Regulation & Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills Training
Healing begins with nervous system regulation and effective communication, creating the stability, safety, and agency needed for deeper transformation. We carefully guide this process, equipping you with the tools needed for lasting change.
The first step to healing is learning to recognize when you are dysregulated, so that you can then learn to self-regulate your nervous system and communicate more effectively, coming back into connection. When we are in a chronic triggered state, there is no safe space within to anchor the treatment. Learning to regulate your nervous system and to be more effective in your communication, allows for facilitation of the deeper systems work in a healing rather than a re-wounding manner.
Somatic Relational Systems Therapy
At Cohealing Center we believe that healing is incomplete when it’s siloed. True holistic healing must of course look at the relationship between an individual and their own internal system, and it also must explore the deeply impactful relationships, communities, and environments an individual is embedded in.
Somatic Relational Systems Therapy is an integrative therapeutic approach combining somatic (body-centered) practices with relational dynamics, and systems thinking to teach people how to heal through connection.
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Somatic Relational Systems Therapy
Somatic: Focusing on bodily sensations, movements, and physical expressions to access, process, and release emotions and trauma that are stuck/stored in the body
Relational: Emphasizing the impact of relationships on shaping experiences and identities. Exploring how attachment patterns, communication styles, and relational wounding shape current relationships.
Systems: Honoring the multiplicity of the individual psyche as a system within individuals and viewing individuals as part of a larger web of systems including families, partnerships, social or cultural contexts, and systems of all kinds. Considering how patterns within these systems impede or invite growth and intimacy.
Real-time Skills Coaching & Practical Application
Learning skills is necessary, but so too is learning how to apply those skills in your life. Where many skill-based treatments fall short is that they emphasize skill acquisition with little to no attention paid to practical application.
To address this huge barrier to sustained healing, Cohealing Center incorporates real-time Nervous System Regulation & Interpersonal Effectiveness Coaching, so that you are learning to implement your skills in the life you are living and not just within the treatment you are participating.
We need access to our skills when we are dysregulated, yet we do not have access to our prefrontal cortex (necessary for us to access logic and reason) when we are activated. Hence, Skills Training combined with Real-Time Coaching builds the muscle memory of using your skills, so that they are available to you even when you are activated.