At Dallas Therapy Alliance, we offer a variety of psychological services, including therapy, assessment, and medication management, aimed at improving the well-being of individuals, families, and couples:
Individual Therapy for Adults
Individual therapy begins with an initial appointment in which you and your therapist will meet to discuss presenting issues, relevant background information, and goals for therapy. We are clinical and counseling psychologists with expertise in treating the entire spectrum of clinical disorders. Examples include anxiety, depression, psychotic disorders, relationship dilemmas, personality disorders, and ADHD. While we primarily utilize a contemporary psychoanalytic approach, we recognize each individual has different therapeutic needs and goals and therefore we incorporate a variety of theoretical orientations and techniques.
Individual Therapy for Adults
Individual therapy begins with an initial appointment in which you and your therapist will meet to discuss presenting issues, relevant background information, and goals for therapy. We are clinical and counseling psychologists with expertise in treating the entire spectrum of clinical disorders. Examples include anxiety, depression, psychotic disorders, relationship dilemmas, personality disorders, and ADHD. While we primarily utilize a contemporary psychoanalytic approach, we recognize each individual has different therapeutic needs and goals and therefore we incorporate a variety of theoretical orientations and techniques.
Individual Therapy for Children and Adolescents
An initial session typically includes the therapist and one or both parents, without the child present, to review concerns and psychosocial history and to develop goals for therapy. Following the initial appointment, your child will meet with his/her therapist to begin therapy. At DTA, we treat a wide range of childhood concerns such as oppositional defiant disorder, ADHD, DMDD, anxiety, and depression. Young children often do not have the understanding, or words, to participate in traditional talk therapy and, thus, explore and resolve conflicts via therapeutic play. In play therapy, toys are viewed as the words, and play, as the language through which children express and regulate emotion, build self-esteem and autonomy, and learn to accept limits. Older children and adolescents engage in a variety of activities in therapy like art, games, and experiential or “hands on” lessons aimed at teaching, for example, coping skills and social skills, as well as talk therapy. Talk therapy begins with the creation of a safe and supportive client-therapist relationship. Exploration of the therapeutic relationship in the “here and now” allows the individual to begin understanding unhealthy relationship patterns and emotional regulation strategies that contribute to negative emotionality. This understanding, in combination with a corrective experience with the therapist, acts as the vehicle for developing a more positive view of the self and others and healthy relationships, coping skills, and perspective taking abilities.
Parent Consultation/Training
In order to promote lasting change in working with children, it is imperative that parents are involved in the therapeutic process. As such, therapists at DTA regularly consult with one or both parents to discuss parent and/or therapist concerns or coping skills that your child will need help practicing at home. Sometimes it is recommended that a parent(s) meet with the therapist instead of (or in addition to) their child to understand how parenting behavior contributes to, and stems from, negative child behavior. Therapists at DTA may employ a wide range of parent management techniques, including Positive Parenting Practice, Glasser’s The Nurtured Heart Approach, and other evidence-based parenting skills interventions.
Psychological, Neurological and Psychoeducational Assessment
Assessment is helpful for treatment planning in therapy and for medication management, and is usually required to receive accommodations and/or modifications to one’s educational curriculum in an academic setting. We provide comprehensive and integrative assessment for ADHD, learning disorders, behavioral disturbances, intellectual functioning, mood disorders, and personality functioning in children, adolescents, and adults. The assessment process begins with an initial consultation to gather information regarding symptoms and relevant developmental, educational, and psychological history. The therapist will then determine which empirically validated instruments are necessary to evaluate your concerns and schedule a testing session. Testing may take between four and ten hours and is generally scheduled over the course of one or two days. Upon completion of testing, a comprehensive report will be written and reviewed with you in a feedback session.
Couples and Family Therapy
Sometimes couples and/or family therapy is warranted instead of, or in combination with, individual therapy to facilitate desired improvement. Similar to individual therapy, the process begins with a meeting to review concerns, history, and goals for treatment. You will then work collaboratively with your therapist to change unhelpful patterns that keep you and your partner and/or family members “stuck” in negative ways of relating to one another. In doing so, boundaries, communication, intimacy, and security are also improved.
Psychiatry
DTA has partnered with Apollo Psychiatry to provide on-site medication management. More information about Aekta Malhotra, M.D. can be found here.
An initial session typically includes the therapist and one or both parents, without the child present, to review concerns and psychosocial history and to develop goals for therapy. Following the initial appointment, your child will meet with his/her therapist to begin therapy. At DTA, we treat a wide range of childhood concerns such as oppositional defiant disorder, ADHD, DMDD, anxiety, and depression. Young children often do not have the understanding, or words, to participate in traditional talk therapy and, thus, explore and resolve conflicts via therapeutic play. In play therapy, toys are viewed as the words, and play, as the language through which children express and regulate emotion, build self-esteem and autonomy, and learn to accept limits. Older children and adolescents engage in a variety of activities in therapy like art, games, and experiential or “hands on” lessons aimed at teaching, for example, coping skills and social skills, as well as talk therapy. Talk therapy begins with the creation of a safe and supportive client-therapist relationship. Exploration of the therapeutic relationship in the “here and now” allows the individual to begin understanding unhealthy relationship patterns and emotional regulation strategies that contribute to negative emotionality. This understanding, in combination with a corrective experience with the therapist, acts as the vehicle for developing a more positive view of the self and others and healthy relationships, coping skills, and perspective taking abilities.
Parent Consultation/Training
In order to promote lasting change in working with children, it is imperative that parents are involved in the therapeutic process. As such, therapists at DTA regularly consult with one or both parents to discuss parent and/or therapist concerns or coping skills that your child will need help practicing at home. Sometimes it is recommended that a parent(s) meet with the therapist instead of (or in addition to) their child to understand how parenting behavior contributes to, and stems from, negative child behavior. Therapists at DTA may employ a wide range of parent management techniques, including Positive Parenting Practice, Glasser’s The Nurtured Heart Approach, and other evidence-based parenting skills interventions.
Psychological, Neurological and Psychoeducational Assessment
Assessment is helpful for treatment planning in therapy and for medication management, and is usually required to receive accommodations and/or modifications to one’s educational curriculum in an academic setting. We provide comprehensive and integrative assessment for ADHD, learning disorders, behavioral disturbances, intellectual functioning, mood disorders, and personality functioning in children, adolescents, and adults. The assessment process begins with an initial consultation to gather information regarding symptoms and relevant developmental, educational, and psychological history. The therapist will then determine which empirically validated instruments are necessary to evaluate your concerns and schedule a testing session. Testing may take between four and ten hours and is generally scheduled over the course of one or two days. Upon completion of testing, a comprehensive report will be written and reviewed with you in a feedback session.
Couples and Family Therapy
Sometimes couples and/or family therapy is warranted instead of, or in combination with, individual therapy to facilitate desired improvement. Similar to individual therapy, the process begins with a meeting to review concerns, history, and goals for treatment. You will then work collaboratively with your therapist to change unhelpful patterns that keep you and your partner and/or family members “stuck” in negative ways of relating to one another. In doing so, boundaries, communication, intimacy, and security are also improved.
Psychiatry
DTA has partnered with Apollo Psychiatry to provide on-site medication management. More information about Aekta Malhotra, M.D. can be found here.
