Discover Care That Meets You Where Your Story Is

At Once Upon A Time, we offer Brainspotting as a gentle, brain‑based approach that supports your natural capacity to heal. Alongside this modality, we integrate a range of trauma‑responsive techniques that help mind and body process experiences that may feel stuck, creating space for greater ease, clarity, and emotional balance.

Brainspotting works with the understanding that where you look can connect to where emotional or physical tension is held. By finding specific eye positions linked to deeper experiences, Brainspotting invites stored stress to soften and release in a calm, attuned, and grounded way. Many clients experience it as a steady, compassionate pathway into the body’s own wisdom.

Our trauma‑based approaches honor your pace, your story, and your internal rhythms. Each session offers a quiet, supportive space to settle, breathe, and gently reconnect with parts of yourself that are ready to grow, heal, and move forward.

Once Upon A Time offers compassionate, developmentally attuned support for children and families navigating emotional, behavioral, and relational challenges. We understand how overwhelming it can feel when a child is struggling, especially when big emotions, sadness, social difficulties, or school‑related concerns begin to shape daily life. With the right support, meaningful change is absolutely possible.

We draw from the Nurtured Heart Approach, evidence‑based behavioral interventions, play‑based methods, and a range of trauma‑responsive techniques to help children process experiences, build emotional regulation, and strengthen resilience. Our clinicians support concerns such as depression, grief, social challenges, and trauma through gentle, developmentally appropriate approaches that honor each child’s pace and story.

Parents are essential partners in this work. We offer parent coaching sessions and groups to help caregivers understand behaviors, support emotional growth, and create nurturing, sustainable family rhythms.

Across all services, we are committed to helping children build confidence, improve communication, cope with stress, and develop skills that support long‑term well‑being.

Common areas of focus include:

• Building confidence

• Improving school performance

• Coping with stress

• Strengthening self‑control

• Enhancing communication

• Understanding and addressing challenging behaviors

The teenage years are a time of rapid change, big emotions, and important decisions. Therapy offers teens a grounded space to make sense of who they are, where they’re headed, and how to navigate the challenges around them. In counseling, teens are encouraged to explore their relationships, strengthen their sense of self, and build lifelong skills for healthy decision‑making.

Therapy can support teens with:

• Building self‑esteem

• Navigating peer pressure

• Improving relationships with parents and friends

• Managing anxiety and stress

• Working through depression

• Understanding personal and developmental changes

At Once Upon A Time, we partner closely with teens and their families to create a treatment plan that truly fits their needs. We collaborate with parents while maintaining your teen’s confidentiality, ensuring a balance of support, trust, and therapeutic privacy.

Our work with couples is grounded in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) and IMAGO, both rooted in attachment theory. These approaches help partners understand the deeper emotions and unmet needs that drive reactions such as anger, fear, withdrawal, or disconnection. Together, we explore healthier ways to communicate, reconnect, and meet each other’s needs through compassion, curiosity, and secure emotional attachment.

Relationships can be one of the most rewarding—and most challenging—parts of adult life. When partners differ in what they think, feel, or need, conflict naturally arises. Because our relationships matter so deeply, these moments can feel threatening, painful, or overwhelming.

Many couples find themselves stuck in one of two patterns:

• Losing themselves by accommodating their partner’s needs at the expense of their own, leading to resentment and disconnection.

• Digging in and defending, which protects the self but erodes closeness, creating cycles of arguments, distance, and hurt.

Our role as couples therapists is to help you step out of these painful cycles and into patterns that foster safety, understanding, and connection. We create a space where both partners feel heard and respected, and we guide you in learning tools that support healthier communication, deeper intimacy, and more satisfying solutions to recurring challenges.

Couples therapy isn’t only for times of crisis—it can also strengthen your bond, increase passion, and deepen your connection long before major issues arise.

Pre‑marital counseling is also available.

For more information on attachment‑based couples work, visit:  

www.holdmetight.net

Family systems counseling suggests that therapy based on family-systems principles is more likely to produce desired lasting change than working solely with individuals. The goal of family therapy is for family members to understand and accept their individual responsibility in the emotional functioning of the family unit. By learning to recognize the emotional patterns and how anxiety (and other emotions) are handled in the family, individual members can manage themselves in healthier functional ways. Exploring your family history is an exciting way to gain insight about yourself and your family members. 

Our focus is to help you address the concerns that brought you here and to support you in creating a life that feels grounded, meaningful, and aligned with who you are. We begin by clarifying your goals, then work together using gentle, effective, and evidence‑informed approaches to activate the natural strengths and resilience already within you. As you grow, you move beyond old patterns and step into greater freedom, clarity, and self‑trust.

Common areas of focus include:  

• Depression, anxiety, and stress  

• Building intimacy and trust in relationships  

• Strengthening self‑esteem  

• Developing healthy boundaries  

• Navigating grief, loss, and loneliness  

• Improving interpersonal relationships  

• Addressing career or life‑direction conflicts  

• Trauma work, including EMDR  

• Healing childhood wounds  

• Support for eating‑related concerns  

• Effective communication and anger expression  

• Developing healthy emotional expression  

• Money and power struggles  

• Addictive or compulsive behaviors  

• Early, mid, and late‑life transitions  

• Exploring purpose and meaning  

• Reconnecting with creativity, spontaneity, and joy

…and much more.on