How Curtis Uses Different Approaches Online

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. It is useful for stress, sleeping or eating problems, and mood concerns.

EMDR, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, helps people process distressing memories by pairing guided attention with focused recall to reduce the memory's emotional charge. It is often used for trauma and abuse recovery.

The Gottman-informed work concentrates on communication patterns and repair strategies for people dealing with relationship conflict or intimacy issues, using specific exercises to improve interactions.

Curtis treats finding the right approach as a team effort. He will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then try methods that fit those needs. Adjustments are made over time based on what helps most.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are close to an in-person session and work well for skill practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions, send brief updates, or have shorter focused conversations that fit a busy day.