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Accent Counseling offers in-office counseling for individuals, families, couples, and some group sessions at this time. In-office availability is set by individual counselors. Administrative staff are generally available from 8 am – 5 pm Monday – Friday, except holidays.
Many Accent Counseling clinicians offer telehealth (virtual) appointments, and our practice maintains a client portal through the HIPAA compliant platform SimplePractice. Telehealth availability is set by individual counselors. Once an appointment is set with one of our counselors, an email invitation to the client portal will be sent. The portal can be accessed by clients at any time to schedule appointments or message with their counselor.
Counselors working with our practice offer a variety of types of one-on-one counseling and areas of focus. Some of the terms used elsewhere on the website are defined below.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Helps people learn how to identify and change destructive or disturbing thought patterns that have a negative influence on behavior and emotions.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): The main goals are to teach people how to live in the moment, develop healthy ways to cope with stress, regulate their emotions, and improve their relationships with others.
Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT): A therapeutic approach based on the premise that emotions are key to identity and can be defined as the practice of therapy informed by an understanding of the role of emotion in psychotherapeutic change
Gestalt Therapy: A form of psychotherapy that is centered on increasing a person’s awareness, freedom, and self-direction. It’s a form of therapy that focuses on the present moment rather than past experiences
Inner Child Work: An approach to recognizing and healing childhood trauma. It recognizes that our behaviors as an adult stem from our childhood experiences.
Narrative Therapy: A form of counseling that views people as separate from their problems and destructive behaviors. This allows clients to get some distance from the difficulty they face; this helps them to see how it might actually be helping or protecting them, more than it is hurting them.
Somatic Therapy: A type of therapy that helps treat post-traumatic stress and effects from other mental health conditions. This type of therapy connects a person’s mind and body to apply psychotherapy and physical therapies during treatment. More details can be found under the Somatic Therapy tab.
While many of our counselors can offer therapy regarding relationships, several of our counselors do have additional, specific training in marriage or couples counseling. Kelby Broddie and Kaileh Butler can offer specific types of support, with more information found on their bio pages.
Accent Counseling is unable to bill your insurance directly for couples counseling. A superbill can be provided for you if you wish to submit the service to your insurance company for possible reimbursement.
The Marathon model works to untether from the clock and allow space for couples to break their toxic cycles, work through built-up emotions, and heal the relational injuries weighing them down while simultaneously teaching new processes for healthier connection and communication. Marathon sessions are typically a total of 12-18 hours and are held over 2 or 3 consecutive days.
For more information or to sign up for a consultation please contact Kaileh Butler, MA, LMHC, NCC. at kaileh.butler@accent-
Sometimes concerns brought to counseling can involve the entire family system and how we operate within our families. Some clinicians at Accent Counseling are able to provide family counseling to address these concerns.
Accent Counseling is unable to offer reunification counseling at this time.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is an evidenced-based form of psychotherapy that utilizes side to side eye movements to help clients address common problems such as depression, anxiety, phobias, relationship issues, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and more. ART works directly to reprogram the way in which distressing memories and images are stored in the brain so they no longer trigger strong physical and emotional reactions. Clients who have received ART often experience rapid results from the treatment.
We have several therapists trained in ART, along with other areas of specialization, including Etjen Mack Palmer, Jessica Longbottom, Hannah Huntley, Karen Malsom, and Nicole Cunningham.
For more general information, follow the links below:
Relational Healing: A Developmental and Relational Trauma Therapy Intensive Group
Developmental and Relational Trauma Therapy (DARTT) is an approach developed by the Healing Our Core Issues Institute for addressing the impacts of childhood and family-of-origin trauma. In this model, we work to improve six core areas often affected by this type of trauma including: self-worth, boundaries, sense of self, self-care, spontaneity, and attachment style.
DARTT is an experiential approach using a blend of therapeutic interventions for treating trauma, including somatic work, inner child work, mindfulness, emotion-focused, and attachment-based modalities
In this intensive-style three-day group, you will work alongside others in your healing journey to process your trauma, work with inner parts, and release stored shame with the guidance of licensed and trained DARTT therapist, Kaileh Butler, MA, LMHC, NCC.
FAQ:
Why in a group?
Connection with others is vital in our healing. By witnessing and allowing others to bare witness to our pain and growth we give way for a level of connection that is often inaccessible and unmatched in our everyday lives. Our wounded inner parts require emotionally safe and nurturing connections, as it was often the very absence of such that caused the wounds to begin with. This allows us to reshape how we are relational with ourselves, our inner parts, and our interpersonal relationships.
Groups are limited to 3-4 participants and will be carefully selected to ensure the best group cohesion.
Why an “intensive”?
Intensives offer the opportunity to take an uninterrupted approach to this form of trauma work. By engaging in this process untethered from the traditional 50-minute once-a-week therapy model we are afforded the chance to explore new depths and make greater leaps toward your needs and goals.
What is the cost?
The full cost of the 3-day intensive is $950. This is not a service covered by insurance. Payments can be made as a 1-time payment or over 2 payments ($475 due at registration and $475 due one week prior).
What is included?
- A 20-minute consultation to ensure that this process is a good fit for your needs.
- Training materials and handouts
- Three full days of guided trauma therapy work (typically from ~9-4:40); which includes breaks and an hour for lunch. Participants will also receive guided mindfulness sessions and psychoeducation.
- A one-time 90-minute follow-up group to check in, connect, and discuss how integrating the practices and process is going.
- Resources and suggestions for continuing the work after the intensive
For more information or to sign up for a consultation please contact Kaileh Butler at kaileh.butler@accent-
Additional resources can be found at the following links:
We one of our providers is currently trained in EMDR, along with other areas of specialization, Jessie Wright. Visit her page for more information and scheduling.
Somatic Counseling
Where it came from:
Somatic therapies are a “new wave” in the field of psychology. Though the official “first somatic therapist” was a man named Willhelm Reich. While Reich had some interesting and controversial ideas in the field, he paved the way for the focus on the manifestation of our internal world (emotional/psychological) on our biophysicality (our bodies). His form of therapy was named “Orgonomy,” and came to be the foundation for the many somatic modalities that followed and continue to be developed.
Somatic psychology/therapy is an umbrella term that encapsulates a wide variety of techniques underneath its branches. Some of the more popular modalities in the field include: Somatic experiencing (Peter Levine), Focusing (Eugene Gendlin), Hakomi (Ron Kurtz), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (Pat Ogden), and Bioenergetics (Alexander Lowen). Some schools of thought pull EMDR (eye movement desensitization reprocessing therapy) and brain spotting into this realm of psychology, while others do not. Most of these modalities involve a 1-3 year certification process where a counselor, or other type of body worker (massage therapists, physical therapists etc) can become trained in these techniques. Most of these techniques do
not require the learner to be a fully licensed counselor, though some do.
So how the heck does it work and what does a potential session look like:
A typical session with a somatic therapist really depends on the individual clinician running the session as well as the individualized needs of the client. There is no “one size fits all” to therapy and neither should this be the case with every session. Your somatic therapist will work to
educate you just like any other therapist, will teach you tools, and often sessions will include quite a bit of talk at times too. Sessions can range from “subtle” or “soft” techniques such as those used in the focusing modality, or in classic mindfulness practices. The goal of using softer
techniques is to support clients in getting in touch with their somatic (bodily) experiences. This includes where and how clients feel various emotions in their body and general body awareness. Clients may learn about their “somatic baseline” or what a somatic “anchor” may be
for them as a way to differentiate between their normal somatic sensations vs. those that indicate a message trying to come through to the individual through the body. Sessions will also include more “overt” or “hard” techniques and tools such as a full body shake off as used by
non-human animals in the wild or a fear melter as used by the Hendricks to support the body discharging remaining fight/flight energy. These are just a few examples of a wide range of techniques and tools used in the field. Oftentimes, therapy starts with a “stabilization” period,
also referred to as “building rapport” where your therapist will focus on getting to know you, your needs, and developing trust and safety in the therapeutic relationship. This phase often includes assessing how connected to your biophysicality you are and supporting you to become more
connected with your embodied self.
Please ask as many questions as you want, no question is “silly” or “stupid!” It is your right as a client to understand the kind of treatment you are receiving from your therapist.
Common techniques used in somatic therapy:
There are some general components found in most if not all somatic therapy modalities such as; grounding, containment, resourcing, and embodiment/body awareness exercises. More information on techniques can be found here.
A general foundation amongst all somatic therapies is the idea of embodiment or body awareness. This is about fostering a deeper sense of connection to one’s body and an integrated connection to the bodymind as a whole. Somatic therapy was created in response to
an outdated belief that gave rise to the first waves of psychology- the idea that our brain equals who we are; “I think, therefore I am” -Descartes. What has been found over time is that a connection to the embodied self is important for healing, intuition, and integration.
Vanessa Herzog, LMHC attended Naropa University and received her degree in clinical counseling with a focus in body psychotherapy. Body psychotherapy is a specific branch under somatic psychology, you can check out more about this specifically here. She is currently
attending two somatic trainings to certify in BodyMind Psychotherapy (Susan Aposhyan) and Contemporary Reichian Therapy (taught by Daniel Schiff Ph.D). Vanessa pulls from a diverse range of somatic and non-somatic modalities and techniques, she especially loves the use of
Focusing as the foundation of somatic work. She sees clients in person or over telehealth. If you are interested in somatic therapy, please contact her directly.
“When movement is held back, energy/life flow is impeded, and we become sick. When movement is rushed, energy/life flow is distorted, and we become sick.” (Caldwell, 1996)