You wouldn’t trust a surgeon that didn’t integrate top-notch science into their practice. You shouldn’t trust a psychotherapist or counselor that doesn’t either.

Just like other fields of medicine use research to determine how to help, mental health also relies heavily on research to differentiate effective treatments from those that are not. Evidence based practices (EBP), or evidence-based treatment, integrate scientific findings into clinical practice. Evidence based practice models integrate:

Your insights, values, perspectives, priorities, and circumstances
Clinical perspective and experience
Scientific research

Why does evidence based treatment matter?

You have options, but they aren’t all effective. Consider treatments for anxiety. You could seek out hypnosis, yoga, acupuncture, medication, herbal treatments, clinical massage or individual psychotherapy. Even within individual psychotherapy, there are numerous approaches with very divergent models of human behavior. Fortunately, billions of dollars are spent on mental health research to ensure efficacious treatments are available. At present, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is funding over 500 studies on anxiety alone.

For some problems, there is little consensus on the best treatment. But for others - like anxiety, depression, ADHD, stress, eating disorders, insomnia - rigorous research studies differentiate evidence based treatment models from those that don’t improve well-being, symptoms, or functioning.

Evidence based treatment matters!

Are evidence based treatment models one-size-fits-all?

We work with a wide range of problems. No single approach is right for everyone or every problem. Nonetheless, we are committed to using evidence based treatment strategies and approaches that are grounded in scientific rigor and offer the highest likelihood of success. Sometimes this means that we use evidence based practice models that strictly follow clinical protocols. At other times, we apply evidence based principles, tailored specifically to you.

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