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Services for Individuals

Assessment

A PTSD intake assessment session is typically the first meeting you’ll have with me, designed to gather important information about your background, symptoms, and experiences related to trauma. The session helps me understand your specific needs and establish a foundation for treatment. The goal is to gather the information needed to create a customized treatment plan that helps you heal and recover from PTSD.

Accelerated PE therapy

Accelerated PE includes all the components of traditional PE, but instead of having sessions once per week, sessions occur three or more times per week. This accelerated pace, sometimes called “massed”, has been associated with rapid treatment gains and reduced risk of drop-out from PE therapy.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Thrive Psychology provides structured, evidence-based therapy CBT, often using the Unified Protocol (UP), to help individuals manage anxiety, depression, trauma, and other emotional challenges. These approaches focus on building practical skills, increasing emotional awareness, and reducing avoidance through personalized, goal-oriented sessions. Therapy is collaborative, culturally responsive, and tailored to support lasting change.

Traditional PE therapy

Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy is a structured, evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral treatment for PTSD that focuses on helping individuals confront and process their traumatic memories in a safe and supportive way. The goal is to reduce the distress associated with those memories and help individuals regain control over their lives. The main components of PE include:

Education about PTSD: PE therapy begins with explaining how PTSD works, the role of avoidance in maintaining symptoms, and how exposure can help break the cycle of fear and avoidance. Understanding this is crucial for the healing process.

Breathing Techniques: In the early stages, the therapist may teach breathing techniques to help manage stress, anxiety and distress in daily life.

In Vivo Exposure: In vivo exposure involves approaching activities, situations or places that are reminders of the trauma but that are objectively safe. These situations are often avoided due to the strong feelings they stir up, but through gradual, repeated exposure, clients can reduce the intensity of their emotional reactions to these activities, situations, and places.

Imaginal Exposure: This involves recalling and narrating the traumatic event(s) in detail. The client is asked to describe the trauma repeatedly in a session, which allows them to approach the memories without avoiding. Over time, the goal is to reduce the emotional intensity associated with these memories, to decrease distress, and to emotionally process the traumatic experience(s) resulting in new learning.

Processing and Reflection: After each exposure, the therapist and client reflect on the experience, noting any changes in their thoughts, feelings, or beliefs. The therapist encourages the client to process how the exposure affects their beliefs and what they are learning from the experiencing of revisiting the trauma memory.

Prolonged Exposure therapy usually takes about 8 to 15 sessions, depending on the individual’s needs. In standard PE, sessions are typically weekly, with assignments to practice exposure between sessions. The therapy is designed to be short-term and focused on helping the individual heal from their traumatic experiences.

PE therapy is a powerful and effective treatment for PTSD, helping individuals break free from the cycle of trauma and fear, and regain a sense of empowerment and emotional wellbeing.

Services for Organizations

Accelerated CBT Program Development

Thrive Psychology specializes in designing and implementing accelerated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) programs that are evidence-based, inclusive, and outcomes-driven. Our approach integrates the latest research in trauma-informed care with organizational needs to create streamlined treatment models that reduce symptom burden efficiently—without compromising clinical precision or cultural humility. Whether you’re a clinic, training institute, or mental health organization, we offer customized program development that enhances accessibility, sustainability, and clinical impact.

Group Consultation for Prolonged Exposure (PE) Clinicians

Thrive Psychology offers structured group consultation for clinicians delivering Prolonged Exposure therapy, designed to enhance fidelity, confidence, and clinical nuance. These sessions provide a collaborative space to troubleshoot challenges, refine protocol delivery, and integrate culturally responsive practices. For organizations engaged in program development or implementation facilitation, group consultation strengthens clinical consistency, supports ongoing skill development, and fosters a culture of reflective practice—ensuring sustained impact and alignment with excellence in trauma-focused and evidence-based care.

Individual Consultation for PE Clinicians

Thrive Psychology provides ongoing consultation for therapists who have completed their initial training in PE. PE consultation is a platform where therapists can receive expert feedback from Thrive Psychology as they implement PE, which allows them to refine their skills and gain more confidence in their practice. This kind of continued support is essential in maintaining high standards of care and improving patient outcomes.

Thrive Psychology provides PE consultation for both accelerated and traditional PE; however, accelerated PE consultation requires multiple consult meetings per week in order to keep up with the accelerated pace of the therapy.

Implementation Facilitation for Accelerated CBT

Thrive Psychology provides hands-on implementation support to help clinics, programs, and mental health teams integrate accelerated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) models into their existing systems. This service includes strategic planning, clinician and leadership coaching, workflow optimization, and fidelity monitoring to ensure sustainable, culturally responsive delivery. Whether you’re launching a new initiative or scaling an existing program, Thrive offers tailored guidance that bridges clinical innovation with operational practicality—empowering teams to deliver high-impact care with confidence and clarity.

Training

Thrive Psychology provides training on a range of topics such as PTSD assessment, traditional PE implementation, accelerated PE implementation, virtual/telehealth delivery of PE, and supervision of accelerated PE implementation.