Raleigh Teletherapy uses the most effective online and telephone counseling strategies for your personality and circumstances. It is important to understand that the most important factor for individual therapy being successful is your relationship with your therapist. In other words, it is important that you feel comfortable with me and that you trust me to understand you.
Style & Presentation
My style is very conversational and interactive, not overly-clinical or stuffy. I do not believe in simply asking a lot of questions then doling out advice. A therapeutic relationship should be comfortable for you to open up in ways that are natural for you. Of course, I will ask questions, and I’ll give directive advice when needed, but overall, our time will be spent having conversations designed to elicit insight. While friendly and casual in my presentation, I will be very honest with you about things that you need to work on or change; I do not believe it is helpful to sugar-coat the truth.
Theoretical Approach & Methods
In terms of my theoretical approach, it is important for me to have several skill-sets that can match different people’s needs and personalities. I have advanced training and experience in the following models:
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Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
In MBCT, we focus on cultivating mindfulness of your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors so that you can evaluate their effectiveness and make changes as needed.
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavior Therapy assumes that thoughts, also called cognitions, lead to decisions about what kind of behavior to engage. In turn, these behaviors have consequences that are either positive, negative, or neutral and feedback into both the conscious and unconscious mind where new thoughts arise. The idea is that when you change the thoughts/cognitions, you will get different decisions that lead to new behaviors and healthier results that reshape how we think and behave.
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
DBT is an advanced version of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT). It has four components that are focused on in order to help you reconcile conflicts you are struggling with. The Four tenets of DBT are:
- Mindfulness Training
- Emotional Regulation
- Distress Tolerance
- Interpersonal Effectiveness
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Solution-Oriented Counseling
While understanding the problem is essential, I believe that you already have many of the skills needed to get through whatever you are struggling with. Solution-Oriented therapy encourages you to look exceptions to the problem as building blocks of relief. This model also encourages you to look forward as a way to build what you do want instead of only looking backward at what you want to eradicate.
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Trauma-Informed Therapy
Trauma-informed therapy takes into consideration what you have been through. We will bear in mind that you may respond differently immediately after a trauma, so my job is to help guide you back to normalcy.
Jonathan F. Anderson, LCMHC, LPC-s
Jonathan is dually licensed in North Carolina as a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC, formerly LPC) and in Texas as a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (LPC-s). He completed his Bachelor‘s degree at the University of Texas, Austin, in 1994, and his Master’s Degree at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 1997. Jonathan has been a leader in the teletherapy industry for over 20-years. He has written telephone counseling training protocols for an international teletherapy provider and was the lead trainer at the same organization. Jonathan has completed Level II of the rigorous Gottman Method of Couples Counseling, and is recognized as an advanced provider of Critical Incident Stress Debriefing and Management. He is happy to be able to apply his expertise of online and telephone counseling to his trauma response and to all of his counseling services.