LEAPS Inc. offers a range of therapy services designed to support individuals and couples navigating emotional challenges, relationship concerns, stress, trauma, and personal growth. Our therapeutic approaches are client-centered and tailored to help clients better understand patterns, build emotional resilience, and move forward with clarity.
Exploring the different types of therapy can help you determine which approach best aligns with your goals, needs, and personal circumstances.
Psychotherapy, often referred to as talk therapy, is an approach used to support mental and emotional well-being through guided conversation and therapeutic techniques. It may also be known as counseling or psychosocial therapy, and is provided by trained professionals such as psychotherapists, psychologists, counselors, and social workers. Therapy can be offered to individuals, couples, families, or groups, depending on the nature of the concerns being addressed.
While psychotherapy and counseling are sometimes used interchangeably, there are distinctions. Psychotherapy often involves a deeper, longer-term process that explores underlying patterns, emotions, and past experiences. Counseling is typically more short-term and focuses on addressing specific, current challenges. Both approaches aim to improve emotional functioning, self-awareness, and overall well-being, helping individuals better navigate daily life, relationships, and personal growth.
Below is an overview of the primary types of therapy offered at LEAPS Inc., each designed to support different needs and goals.
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy provides a confidential and supportive space to explore thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that may be affecting daily life. This approach is well suited for individuals experiencing stress, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, self-esteem concerns, or life transitions. Therapy focuses on increasing self-awareness, developing coping strategies, and creating meaningful, sustainable change tailored to personal goals.
Couples Therapy
Couples therapy focuses on improving communication, rebuilding trust, and strengthening emotional connection between partners. It can be helpful during periods of conflict, relationship strain, infidelity recovery, or major life changes. Therapy provides a structured environment to address recurring patterns, resolve challenges, and develop healthier ways of relating to one another.
Family Therapy
Family therapy supports families navigating communication challenges, conflict, and transitions that affect the family system as a whole. Sessions focus on improving understanding, strengthening relationships, and fostering healthier interactions between family members. This approach helps families develop effective communication skills and create a more supportive and balanced home environment.
Group Therapy
Group therapy brings individuals together in a guided, supportive setting to share experiences and learn from others facing similar challenges. This approach helps participants gain perspective, build interpersonal skills, and feel less isolated. Group therapy can be especially beneficial for developing coping strategies, improving communication, and fostering a sense of connection.
How to Choose the Right Type of Therapy
Choosing the right type of therapy depends on your goals, challenges, and personal preferences. You may consider:
Whether your concerns are individual or relationship-focused
If challenges are related to stress, trauma, communication, or life transitions
Your preference for structured guidance or open exploration
Whether you are seeking short-term support or ongoing therapeutic work
A consultation can help determine which therapeutic approach best supports your needs.
Therapeutic Approaches Offered at L.E.A.P.S. Inc.
Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
is a therapeutic style that helps individuals live more fulfilling lives by embracing their thoughts and feelings rather than trying to control them. It emphasizes acceptance, mindfulness, commitment and engenders self and values discovery.
Adlerian Therapy
focuses on discovering the client’s unique way of approaching life, their sense of belonging, while striving for purpose-driven success and meaning by emphasizing interpersonal skill development, elevating personal self-concept and creating a deeper sense of community.
Attachment-based Therapy
is a form of therapy rooted in attachment theory, which explores how early childhood lived experiences with caregivers. Primary goals are to help individuals discover, understand and navigate attachment wounds, remove childhood insecurities and build healthy relationships that incorporate greater self-awareness.
Christian Counseling
is a type of therapeutic approach that integrates traditional talk therapy methodologies with Christian belief practices by incorporating biblical and theological concepts. It focuses on teaching clients how best to navigate life daily challenges using biblical tenets, principles and values.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
is a type of psychotherapy that helps individuals manage their emotions and behaviors by identifying and changing negative or irrational thought patterns. It is based on the principle that human thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected, and by changing how we think will also change how we feel and act.
Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT)
is an approach that focuses on helping individuals manage self-criticism and shame by cultivating a greater sense of self- compassion and kindness towards themselves and others. The development and discovery of innate compassion is the focal point for creating and promoting improved emotional well-being.
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
focuses on the incorporation of cultural competency through the development of heightened cultural competency and awareness. It involves tailoring therapy to individual cultural contexts including race, ethnicity, sexual and religious orientation, familial considerations and other cultural idiosyncrasies.
Dialectical (DBT)
is a type of therapy that helps people manage intense emotions, improve relationships, and reduce harmful and destructive behaviors. It emphasizes self- acceptance, self-awareness and transformation. Using psychoeducation and new skills development to better manage diverse mental health challenges and disorders.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
is a psychotherapy technique used to treat trauma and related conditions like PTSD, anxiety, and depression. It involves recalling disturbing/traumatic memories while engaging in bilateral stimulation, typically side-to-side eye movements, to process and reduce past traumatic experiences.
Eclectic Therapy
is a flexible approach that combines different therapeutic techniques and modalities to create a personalized treatment plan for each individual. It is highly flexible, often integrated and strategic and blends various methods deemed most effective for the client's specific needs and circumstances.
Emotionally Focused Therapy
is a short-term, evidence-based approach to psychotherapy that helps individuals and couples understand and improve their emotional connections and engagements with themselves and their families. It is grounded in attachment theory and emphasizes the importance of secure emotional bonds for psychological well-being.
Existential therapy
is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on the individual's experience of life's fundamental questions, such as freedom, meaning, and mortality. It helps individuals grapple with existential anxieties and challenges to create a more authentic and meaningful life.
Marital and family therapy (MFT)
is a therapeutic approach that focuses on improving marital and familial relationships by addressing mental, emotional, and relational issues. MFT embraces the Family Systems Therapy which views interfamilial relationships systematically and aims to understand how these systems impact individual well-being.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
views the human mind as a composition of multiple parts, each with its own roles and experiences. The primary goal of IFS is to help individuals understand and integrate the parts by fostering healing and internal harmony through the cultivation of self-compassion and internal leadership.
Gestalt Therapy
is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on the individuals’ experiences in the present moment by promoting a greater sense of self-awareness and integration of thoughts, feelings, and actions into a coherent whole. It emphasizes personal responsibility by clinically through heightened awareness of suppressed thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
Humanistic Therapy
is an approach to therapy that encapsulates and emphasizes the client’s inherent worth and potential for personal and professional growth. It focuses on the whole person, rather than just symptoms, and aims to help individuals to fulfill their full potential by becoming more self-aware, self-accepting, and self-actualized.
Integrative Therapy
is a flexible approach to mental health treatment that combines techniques and theories from different therapeutic modalities. It focuses on understanding the individual's holistic mental, physical, and emotional health, rather than just one aspect and allows therapists to tailor interventions to the specific needs and goals of each client.
Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
is a short-term therapeutic approach that focuses on addressing interpersonal relationship problems, specifically in terms of how they impact mood including depression. It is based on the conceptual view that mental health conditions like depression can be influenced and maintained by relationship difficulties.
Intervention Therapy
is a therapeutic modality that prioritizes actions, strategies and/or techniques geared to help unique client needs by addressing psychological, emotional, behavioral, or relational issues. This approach is designed to promote positive change, enhance psychological well-being and improve overall mental health.
Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
is an approach that combines (CBT) with mindfulness meditation practices. It is effective in helping individuals who have experienced complex trauma and/or depressive symptoms in preventing re-traumatization. MBCT aims to cultivate safe and secure environments conducive to trauma-informed recovery.
Motivational Interviewing
is a counseling approach that helps individuals find the motivation to make positive behavioral changes through internal motivation and resolving ambivalence. It embraces client-centered, empathetic and practical methodologies geared to acknowledge life challenges, while focusing clients’ strengths to achieve transformation.
Multicultural Therapy
is an approach that incorporates cultural competency through multicultural training and awareness. It requires a deep understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity including race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and how cultural factors inform psychological well-being.
Narrative Therapy
is a therapeutic approach that focuses on helping individuals understand and re-write their life stories. It encourages clients to view themselves as distinct from their life challenges by reframing their negative life narratives with positive narratives, thereby empowering them to conceptualize positive meaning to their lives.
Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian Therapy)
is a humanistic approach that focuses on the clients lived experiences. Focus is placed on growth potential, rather than therapeutic solutions. Supportive and empathetic environments are created to facilitate the exploration of clients’ thoughts and feelings to heighten self-awareness, responsibility and growth.
Positive Psychology
is a fortified-styled approach that focuses on building well-being and flourishing rather than solely addressing mental illness. It emphasizes identifying and cultivating personal strengths, positive emotions, and meaningful experiences to enhance overall quality of life.
Psychoanalytic Therapy
is also known as psychodynamic therapy and is a form of in- depth talk therapy that explores the unconscious mind and its influence on thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It aims to uncover repressed lived experiences and emotions that often stem from childhood to bring them to conscious awareness for examination and resolution.
Rational Emotive Behavior (REBT)
is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that focuses on helping individuals identify and challenge irrational beliefs that lead to negative emotions and behaviors. REBT aims to help people replace irrational beliefs with more rational and realistic ones, ultimately leading to psychological well-being.
Reality Therapy
is a counseling approach developed by William Glasser that focuses on helping individuals take responsibility for their behaviors and learn more effective ways to meet their basic needs. It emphasizes presenting a consequential philosophy that engenders choices and responsibility for actions, rather than diagnoses of past experiences.
Relational Therapy
is a type of psychotherapy that focuses on the importance of relationships in shaping emotional well-being. It emphasizes that mutually satisfying relationships are crucial for mental health and that social and familial factors significantly impact relationship development. It posits that relationships leverage transformation.
Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
is a therapeutic approach that focuses on finding solutions to problems in the present and future, rather than focusing on past issues or the problem itself. It is a goal-driven and solutioned-oriented approach that emphasizes identifying strengths and resources to help individuals achieve positive and sustained transformation.
Structural Family Therapy (SFT)
is a therapeutic approach that focuses on the interactions and relationships between family members, viewing the family as a system. It aims to improve communication, clarify boundaries, and modify unhealthy familial behavioral patterns to promote overall psychological well-being and healthier relationships.
Trauma Focused Therapy
is a type of therapy that specifically addresses the psychological impact of traumatic events. It aims to help individuals process trauma, reduce related symptoms, and improve their overall well-being. Diverse trauma-focused treatments may be used to address the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral effects of trauma.
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