Christopher Luongo-Zink, LMHC

In the earlier stages of our time together, I like to get to know how your overall life and your mental well-being intersect. Using this information, together we will create a plan to immediately find the behavioral areas of your life that may be posing the biggest stumbling blocks. We may then take a look at the ways that you interact with your thoughts (are you willing to have these thoughts or unwilling?) to better explore how these behaviors may have taken root in the first place. I may also incorporate parts work in certain cases to better help you understand your inner workings and bring deeper traumas into the here-and-now for healing. In couples work, I typically will incorporate IFS and ACT with the Gottman Method to help couples understand what is not working and how to be fully present to the needs of their partner and the relationship as a whole. Typically, you can expect the first several sessions of work to be used assessment and history gathering of you, your partner, and the relationship. This will usually take about three sessions, at which point we will have a good assessment of what would be most beneficial to the couple during their time in treatment Of course, this is just a rough idea of how individual therapy with me may look. I believe that each person is uniquely individual and together we will find the necessary path forward for the best outcome. I will always seek to keep an open dialogue between myself and my clients around what is working and what is not. I hope to make my clients feel comfortable enough to help me better understand the best ways that I can assist them in bettering their lives.