Two things worth knowing before you reach out: the kinds of experiences we work with most, and the therapeutic approaches we use to work with them.
Read until something sounds familiar. That’s the point.
Not just worry. The kind that shows up in your body. The tight chest, the 3am wakefulness, the sense of impending something you can’t name.
New city. New relationship. End of one. Career pivot. Becoming a parent. Losing a parent. Transitions are identity events, not just logistics.
Not just the single big event, but the accumulation — often from early in life — that shaped how you learned to survive.
The collective offers CBT-I — the gold-standard, evidence-based treatment for chronic insomnia, delivered by trained clinicians.
Relationships under strain. Communication patterns that leave both people feeling unseen. The aftermath of rupture.
Patterns that repeat across relationships, the aftermath of infidelity or rupture, the loneliness of feeling unseen by someone you love.
The wounds that form when the people who were supposed to keep you safe didn’t. Working with them requires clinical sophistication.
Postpartum depression and anxiety, pregnancy loss, perimenopause and menopause. Significant, valid, often isolating experiences.
The moments when the frameworks you’ve lived by stop making sense. Existential questions that therapy is rarely equipped to hold.
Affirming therapy is not just the absence of judgment. It’s the presence of real understanding.
The pressure to perform, provide, and keep it together. Difficulty accessing emotions, relationship struggles, anger, loneliness.
Burnout, alienation, tech fatigue, the difficulty of being ‘smart’ at everything except how you feel.
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Our therapists are trained in a range of evidence-based and depth-oriented approaches. Each one is explained below in plain language.
Each approach below answers three questions: what it is, what it helps with, and what a session actually feels like.
The collective’s signature approach. A relational, experiential therapy grounded in attachment theory and affective neuroscience.
AEDP is a relational therapy at its core. It works directly with emotional experience — not by analyzing it from a distance, but by experiencing it fully and safely within the therapeutic relationship itself.
Anxiety and depression with emotional roots, attachment injury, grief and loss, patterns that feel impossibly persistent, emotional shutdown, difficulty trusting others.
AEDP sessions are warm and relational. Your therapist is genuinely present, responsive, and willing to notice and name what’s happening between you. Many clients find sessions surprisingly moving.
A legal, carefully administered treatment combining neuroplasticity-enhancing effects of ketamine with psychotherapeutic support.
KAP combines the use of ketamine with psychotherapy before, during, and after dosing sessions. Ketamine can temporarily open a window of increased brain flexibility, making it easier to process difficult emotions.
Treatment-resistant depression, PTSD and complex trauma, severe anxiety, conditions that feel stuck despite genuine effort in conventional therapy.
Preparation sessions feel like regular therapy. Dosing sessions are held in a comfortable setting with your therapist present throughout. Integration sessions help you make sense of the experience.
A body-centered approach that uses mindfulness and gentle physical awareness to access emotional material below conscious thought.
Hakomi is a somatic therapy that works with the idea that we carry important emotional information in our bodies. Rather than analyzing thoughts, Hakomi invites you to slow down and notice what’s happening physically.
Trauma stored in the body, emotional patterns that feel automatic, difficulty connecting to your own feelings or needs, a desire to understand yourself at a deeper level.
Hakomi sessions are slow and spacious. You might be invited to notice what’s happening in your body. The therapist follows where your body leads, with careful attention and without pushing.
One of the most extensively researched trauma treatments available.
EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess traumatic memories. Memories that once felt overwhelming lose their charge and become integrated.
Single-incident trauma, developmental trauma, phobias, distressing memories, negative beliefs about oneself.
There is typically a preparation phase. Sessions can be intense but are carefully paced. Many clients describe significant relief from symptoms that persisted for years.
An experiential approach focused on present-moment awareness, personal responsibility, and the therapeutic relationship.
Gestalt therapy is built on the idea that the most powerful therapeutic work happens in the present moment. It draws on existential philosophy to understand human experience as inherently relational.
Feeling disconnected, difficulty expressing needs, unresolved emotions, relationship patterns that repeat, a desire for greater aliveness and authenticity.
Gestalt sessions are alive and engaged. Your therapist may draw attention to something happening in the moment. It’s active, relational, and often surprisingly energizing.
Understands the mind as a system of parts, each with its own perspective and history.
IFS understands that no part is fundamentally bad. The critical voice, the numbing behavior — each developed for a reason. Rather than eliminating these parts, IFS works to understand and heal them.
Inner conflict, self-criticism, trauma held in specific parts of the self, a longing for self-compassion that feels out of reach.
IFS sessions involve turning attention inward to make contact with parts of you that are present. The approach is gentle and collaborative.
The first-line, evidence-based treatment for chronic insomnia. More effective than medication long-term.
CBT-I addresses the causes of insomnia rather than just suppressing symptoms. It typically runs six to eight sessions with specific interventions.
Chronic insomnia — difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking too early, at least three nights per week for at least three months.
CBT-I sessions are more structured than general therapy. You’ll keep a sleep diary, and each meeting involves reviewing data, adjusting protocol, and working through components.
A depth-oriented approach rooted in understanding how unconscious patterns and relational dynamics shape present-day life.
Psychodynamic therapy works from the understanding that much of what drives our behavior operates outside conscious awareness. The therapeutic relationship becomes a living laboratory.
Recurring relationship patterns, depression with roots in early experience, difficulty understanding reactions, a desire for deeper self-understanding.
Sessions are conversational and exploratory. The pace is unhurried and deepens over time.
A framework that honors the spiritual and transcendent dimensions of human experience as legitimate therapeutic territory.
Transpersonal psychology recognizes dimensions that go beyond the personal — states of consciousness, spiritual experiences, and connection to something larger than oneself.
Existential crises, spiritual experiences that feel confusing, integration of psychedelic experiences, grief, a longing for deeper purpose and authenticity.
Sessions may include conversation alongside mindfulness practices, dream exploration, or holding space for experiences that don’t fit conventional categories.
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