Connection.

Rudy believes we are meant to be connected to others. Whether his client is an individual, a family, or a couple, he attends to their therapy and counseling goals by utilizing interventions and techniques that support skill-building (i.e. communication and self-expression), increasing self-awareness and insight (physical and emotional), and teaching the art of mutual empathy and sympathy.

One of Rudy’s therapeutic approaches lies in the field of Dr. Dan Siegel’s Interpersonal Neurobiology, which explores the complex layers that create the human experience and does not confine our understanding of human behavior solely to cause-effect. The model considers these disciplines as direct and indirect influences of how we relate to ourselves and others: psychology, sociology, anthropology, neuroscience, physics, and spirituality.

Integrating concepts of Interpersonal Neurobiology enhances the therapeutic process by connecting the “developmental dots” in one’s life.

Attachment.

Rudy also relies on the many facets of Attachment Theory to integrate in his work. Attachment examines how human beings bond and why, and what can get in the way of secure and healthy relationships.  Healthy attachments create the condition for individuals in the relationship to experience a sense of stability, safety, and security toward feeling confident to take risks, stretch comfort zones, grow, and develop, love and be loved.

This personal blueprint can become out of balance with the presence of both current or historical trauma, depression, grief, anxiety, and sometimes just from the challenges of repeated stresses of life. The therapeutic relationship between the therapist and client can be powerful catalysts for repairing emotional/physical wounds, increasing coping skills, rebuilding self-esteem, enhancing confidence and independence, and transmitting those positive changes into every area of their life.

Integration

How it all comes together in therapy…

Rudy’s “therapeutic toolbox” includes:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which helps you explore the connection between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

• Psychodynamic modalities, which place emphasis on how your past influences your current and future ability to have healthy and functioning relationships

• Family Systems Theories, which look at how relationships and interactions within families (systems and multigenerational influences) can create stubborn patterns of dysfunction and resistance to change.

• Rudy often uses shorter term interventions based on the frameworks of Solution-Focused and Narrative Therapy, where the focus of treatment is brief and time limited. Post-modern theories such as those are designed to shift therapy away from overly processing problems and pathology, toward the power of possibility. This is accomplished by amplifying how the client’s strengths and past successes can be sources of tremendous potential for change and transformation.