ROOT INTO YOUR
capacity for change
Oak & Reed Clinical Services provides therapy, clinical supervision and training, and program consultation and curriculum development focused on increasing psychological flexibility and creating a values-centered, meaningful life.
Rather than viewing happiness as something to be achieved, suffering as something to be eliminated, or circumstances as something to be controlled: Oak & Reed helps individuals learn to accept their internal and external experiences. As human beings, we often become rigid in our current thoughts, experiences, and stories when we can instead learn to embrace them and move in the direction of our intrinsic values.
The Fable of the Oak & the Reed
FINDING FLEXIBILITY WITHIN OURSELVES
The story of the Oak & the Reed is about the beauty found within flexibility- the life sustaining gift of creativity and change, and the value of embracing the ongoing flow of experience. The Oak Tree, symbolizing strength and power, mocks the Reed for its ongoing shifts with the wind. The Reed is sensitive and malleable to the world around it, always remaining rooted in the ground while fluidly shifting direction in response to changes in the wind.
It is the Reed’s flexibility, referred to in clinical settings as 'psychological flexibility,' that we seek in life: the ability to stay rooted in our sense of self and values while embracing the continuous, varied flow of experience.
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services & offerings
Individual, Couples, and Family Psychotherapy
Using an evidence-based therapeutic approach focused on process and personal growth, Oak & Reed helps individuals come closer to their own intrinsic values and embrace their every experience.
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Clinician Training & Consulting
Oak & Reed Clinical Services offers consultation and supervision for clinicians looking to integrate a mindfulness-based, process-oriented approach into their practice.
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Curriculum Development & Program Consultation
Oak & Reed provides group training, program refinement, and curriculum development using a combination of psychoeducation, process, and experiential group interventions.
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Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
EVIDENCE-BASED, TRANSDIAGNOSTIC FRAMEWORK
The Oak & Reed philosophy is based in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a framework that works to increase psychological flexibility. ACT is a mindfulness-based, process-oriented, transdiagnostic approach that addresses avoidance patterns, misapplied control, and awareness of function and purpose of behavior. ACT is evidence based for many conditions that bring people to treatment including depression, anxiety, trauma, substance use, and many other co-occurring issues.
ACT is a comprehensive, in-depth philosophy that enhances overall wellbeing and life satisfaction through engaging in value-based behavioral shifts, acceptance of experience, clarification of what matters, increases in consciousness, and present moment awareness.
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