Strength-Based Therapy
Strength-Based Therapy is a therapeutic approach that focuses on identifying and building upon a person’s natural abilities, skills, values, and past successes.
What Is Strength-Based Therapy?
Strength-Based Therapy is a therapeutic approach that looks beyond challenges to identify the positive qualities and resources that can support healing and growth.
Your struggles are important, but they are not the whole story.
A strengths-based therapist may help you explore:
- Personal strengths and abilities
- Resilience and past successes
- Healthy coping skills
- Supportive relationships
- Personal values and goals
- Positive qualities you may overlook
- Resources within your family or community
- Skills you can build upon
The goal isn't to ignore difficult emotions or experiences. Instead, therapy creates space to acknowledge those challenges while also recognizing your ability to work through them.
Benefits of a Strength-Based Approach
Strength-Based Therapy may help you:
- Feel more confident in your abilities
- Recognize personal strengths
- Develop greater self-awareness
- Improve coping skills
- Build resilience
- Set realistic and meaningful goals
- Increase motivation
- Develop a more balanced view of yourself
- Recognize progress and personal growth
- Feel more empowered when facing challenges
Insurances We Accept
- BlueCross and BlueShield
- GEHA
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Molina Healthcare
- Optum
- Oxford
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Presbyterian
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SUREST
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UMR
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UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH
What Can Strength-Based Therapy Help With?
A strengths-based approach can be helpful for many different concerns and life experiences, including:
- Anxiety and depression
- Low self-esteem
- Life transitions
- Grief and loss
- Relationship challenges
- Parenting concerns
- Stress and burnout
- Trauma recovery
- Personal growth
- Identity and self-discovery
- Building confidence
- Developing healthier coping skills
It can also be incorporated into therapy for children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families.
Meet our Therapists
Emily Martin, M.A. Candidate
Therapist | Master's Intern Counseling
Rachel Rascon, MS, LMHC
Therapist | In-Person & Online
Natalie D. Vasquez, LMSW
Therapist | Master's Intern Counseling
Britt Verstegen, LMSW, LSAA
Therapist | Online Only
Frequently Asked Questions About Strength-Based Therapy
What Is Strength-Based Therapy?
Strength-Based Therapy is an approach that focuses on a person's strengths, abilities, resilience, resources, and existing coping skills. Rather than focusing only on problems or symptoms, therapy also explores what is already working and how those strengths can support positive change.
How Does Strength-Based Therapy Work?
Strength-Based Therapy is collaborative and personalized. Your therapist may help you identify personal strengths, explore past successes, recognize supportive relationships and resources, develop coping strategies, and create goals based on your values and needs.
Who Can Benefit From Strength-Based Therapy?
Strength-Based Therapy can benefit children, teens, adults, couples, and families. It may be helpful for people experiencing anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, trauma, grief, relationship challenges, life transitions, stress, or those who simply want to grow and develop greater confidence.
Can Strength-Based Therapy Help With Anxiety or Depression?
Yes. A strengths-based perspective can be incorporated into many different therapeutic approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Play Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, trauma-informed therapy, and other evidence-based approaches. Your therapist can tailor treatment to your individual needs and goals.
