About The Team
Emily Schindler, LMHC
Christina Rodriguez, LISW
Christina Rodriguez, LISW
Emily approaches all her therapy services with respect and compassion at the forefront. Life is stressful in itself, and therapy should never be a place you feel judged or shamed.
Emily is co-owner of Future Focused Therapy Solutions, provides therapy at the clinic and serves as a consultant.
Christina Rodriguez, LISW
Christina Rodriguez, LISW
Christina Rodriguez, LISW
Christina is an affirming yet directive therapist. She meets clients where they are and helps them address parts of their life that keep them from getting where they want to go.
Christina is co-owner of Future Focused Therapy Solutions, provides therapy at the clinic, presents Mental Health Education and teaches at local colleges within Social Work.
Future Focused Therapy Solutions: Services We Provide
Virtual and Telehealth Services are available for all options below.
Family/Couples Therapy
We first work to understand interaction patterns and individual needs within the couple or family system. Then we build on what is already working and change what is not to help families and couples make shifts away from harmful consequences of unwanted actions, thoughts and beliefs. This can often be different than other family/couples therapy approaches that may center more around a specific individual. The goal is to address the system as a whole.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
CBT helps individuals connect their thoughts, behaviors and actions to make changes in their lives and shift their thinking into more productive thoughts. These thoughts then change the emotional reaction to stressors in their lives and paves the way for a different behavior.
Self-Compassion
Self-Compassion is an intervention that focuses on how we talk and support ourselves. The idea of being kind to yourself in your thoughts and actions can be a missing piece that halts progress in many other therapy interventions.
Trauma Focused Interventions
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a highly effective evidence-based treatment for trauma. It is provided in a process to ensure clients have the skills needed to reprocess past life events with desensitization via bi-lateral stimulation.
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is an evidence-based treatment for children and adolescents impacted by trauma and their parents or caregivers. Research shows that TF-CBT successfully resolves a broad array of emotional and behavioral difficulties associated with single, multiple and complex trauma experiences.
DBT
Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is a specialized behavioral therapy proven to assist those with high emotional reactivity and difficulty with building and maintaining healthy relationships with others. One of the most effective interventions for those with borderline traits.
Clinical Supervision
We pride ourselves on providing high quality Clinical Supervision that both supports new therapists and pushes them to develop advanced skills for comprehensive independent practice. Clinical Supervisors are all Iowa Board Approved.