Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation (STAIR)
This evidence-based treatment is designed to be completed in 8 - 10 sessions. Treatment includes a full psychological assessment and recommendations, as well as follow up sessions designed to help you better understand your emotions and regulate them. This form of treatment involves learning about relationship patterns and changing interpersonal habits and behaviors that keep you stuck.
William's Story
"Growing up, we never talked about our feelings. For a long time, I didn't think I had very many! Working in the operating room for long hours, seeing patient after patient, I guess I sort of went numb. Then the pandemic hit. Suddenly I was angry all of the time. My patients were dying. I lost colleagues. I couldn't stay numb anymore. I started going back and forth between being really distant and being enraged. After a while, my partner said that if I didn't get help, we were getting a divorce.
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STAIR helped me understand that I did, in fact, have emotions - like every other human on the planet. It also helped me understand how my emotions related to my beliefs about relationships. I truly believed that if I talked about the difficult things I witnessed each day, people would avoid me, and if I asked for help, I would be blamed for my problems. STAIR helped me see that these beliefs weren't facts. It opened up the possibility of being more emotionally connected to others, and played a major part in saving my marriage."