Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Psychological research has shown that once you’ve experienced clinical depression even once, your likelihood of relapsing back into clinical depression is around 50%. Psychologists call this phenomenon the negativity bias. Once the mind skews negative and beliefs and assumptions are built around that perspective, these negative thoughts and the emotions they create cycle in and out of our lives regularly. Something as minor as stubbing your toe can set off a chain reaction of negative thinking and quickly plunge your mind back into darkness. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) was designed to help you realistically evaluate and question your negative thoughts directly and to teach you how to manage and neutralize your negativity through disciplined practice and CBT skills.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
DBT is an emotion regulation system that helps our clients modify and modulate their emotional reactivity. Once we learn to accept our current emotions, we can learn to regulate them with new coping skills while building a life of unprecedented skilled behaviors and choices. We recover from depression, anxiety, and trauma and open ourselves to a world filled with optimism and unlimited possibility.
DBT Skills Group
The DBT Skills Group teaches you the dozens of skills used by DBT in all their complexity, the neuroscience and research behind the DBT program, and the psychological advantages that make these skills relevant for the rest of your life. By understanding the skill’s practical benefit, the science behind the system, and the nuances of daily application, you are much more likely to actually practice the skill and have it available when the emotionally challenging moments unexpectedly appear.
Growing Boys Strong
American masculinity is changing. As new cultural and social changes take root, the ways of the past are no longer acceptable in our modern world. Men and boys are now contending with traditional expectations of manliness while exploring new frontiers of sensitivity, connection, and emotional intelligence. Popular forces and media still push ideals of toughness, aggression, and toxic masculinity, but many of us know that these old ways should remain in the past…
Growing Girls Strong
A lot can change in just a few years. Parents of daughters know that every year brings something new. But many of us are overwhelmed with the severity, scope, and speed of change during our daughter’s teenage years. What we often do not understand is that the early teenage years come with a small window of time before these changes become entrenched and sometimes permanent. The rapid expansion of the brain during puberty creates new neural pathways for processing thoughts and feelings. These new pathways can shape and distort the important belief systems. The core assumptions about themselves, their relationships, and their effectiveness in the world are often consolidated during this time. The longer inaccurate beliefs and negative emotions are left addressed, the more entrenched they become.
Individual Counseling
Gearing Up values personalized, thoughtful, and expertly delivered individual counseling that is carefully planned, utilizes cutting edge research, and is always custom tailored to our clients’ needs. We are dedicated to APA endorsed evidence-based treatment models to build active coping skills, prepare clients for real-time responses, and work with our clients to build their best life. We are one of the largest and longest running mental health clinics in North Texas, and we are experts at targeting, treating, and resolving mental health issues.
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is one of the most effective therapy systems in the world for those of us who suffer from persistent or recurrent depression. Since its creation, MBCT has been proven to be highly beneficial for anyone struggling with overwhelming negative emotions. At Gearing Up, we have found this therapy system effective with anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, panic attacks, grief and loss, and trauma.
Psychological Evaluation & Testing
Projective personality testing offers an incisive “x-ray” of the client’s emotional architecture. This highly specialized testing digs deeper to get a comprehensive and direct evaluation of the client’s personality structure, what causes their painful emotional symptoms, and the how their coping resources are currently utilized and employed.
Telehealth Counseling
Don’t let geography hold you back from the best mental health care in Texas! Gearing Up is now offering Telehealth services to our clients over video conference and telephone sessions. The best part? Your insurance will cover it!*
