RELATIONSHIP THERAPY
Relationship therapy is a lot like playing on a team sport. There are many skills required for success and when your team wins, there is tremendous joy and pride in participating in the game. Team sports require pre-game coordination, clear and timely communication, adaptation and accurate readings of our teammate’s position and condition, and your involvement in the after the game huddles. To be a good team player, you are also required to continue to improve your individual skills outside of team practices so that you can bring your best skills to contribute at the game. As a relational therapist, I provide both therapy for training individual relationship skills and couples therapy for helping the relationship team succeed together on the court.
Cindy Tsay, LMFT, ATR
ART THERAPY
Art therapy is a specialized therapeutic modality that uses the creative process as a non-verbal extension of our emotional and relational experiences. Some of our stories are hard to describe and attend to through words alone. In art therapy, I help clients to develop their own language of expression and to attend to their therapeutic needs in an authentic and enriching way. You don’t have to be an artist to benefit from art therapy. With the suitable art materials, a thoughtful art experiential prompt, and with attentive witnesses of the art making process, we can engage and hold our unique stories in a collaborative and a more compassionate way.
THERAPY FRAMEWORK
As a licensed therapist, I believe good therapy must consists of these five ingredients:
A compatible professional relationship between the therapist’s area of expertise & the clients’ presenting needs
A shared vision for the therapy journey where clients feel seen, understood, and safe with the therapist’s perception of the presenting issue
A professional relationship with safe and clear boundaries where clients can feel intimate enough with the therapist to explore and to attend to their challenges and distant enough where they know confidentiality is honoured and respected
A mutual commitment towards creating the right context for change where the clients and the therapist can discuss, negotiate, and agree upon an individualized treatment plan according to clients’ priorities, timeline, and resources.
A system of monitoring therapy progress where therapist and clients intentionally carves out time in the therapeutic progress to honestly evaluate therapy efficacy, areas of attention + needs, and a clear timeline for therapy termination.
THERAPY STRUCTURE
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3-5 sessions
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1-2 sessions
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The number of sessions/ length of time/ frequency is dependent on client’s goals: short-term vs long-term + the complexity and difficulties of the presenting issues
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Check-ins and as-needed sessions once a month to once after six months
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The last sessions to reflect on the therapeutic process and to celebrate the completion of reaching the therapy goals
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Clients can initiate a new round of therapy with therapist after termination with new set of therapy goals when needed.
