CULTURE OF EXCELLENCE

Get to know the core values that shape our team.

Growth Oriented

ThrivePointe therapists pursue continuous Professional Development using Expertise Development Models and Deliberate Practice. Our growth mindset drives us to find ways to become a little better every day.

Results Driven

We are driven by what research and data say about works in therapy. Our team uses Evidence-Based Treatment Approaches, Routine Outcome Monitoring, and Feedback-Informed Treatment to make sure therapy is working and clients accomplish their goals.

Relationship Centered

Cultivating strong therapist-client relationships is a high priority for us. Our therapists engage in Routine Alliance Monitoring and advanced interpersonal skills training to ensure they are offering remarkable connection with every client.

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Relationship-Centered

The therapeutic factor of the alliance itself has been found to be a better predictor of client outcomes than client diagnosis, the professional discipline of the clinician, years of clinician experience, the client’s previous treatment history and the specific treatment approach. Everything that happens in the work of therapy depends on the personal connection between the therapist and client.

This is why our therapists engage in advanced interpersonal skills training and routine alliance monitoring. ThrivePointe therapists practice the following interpersonal skills to cultivate strong therapist-client relationships:

Attunement – being able to see what the client is feeling and getting used to a client’s one of a kind signals

Resonance – helping the client experience a “meeting of the minds” where the client feels known and understood

Acceptance – showing the client with non-verbals and words that the therapist demonstrates unconditional positive regard

Responsiveness – matching the quality, intensity, and timing of the client’s signals and repairing ruptures in the relationship accordingly

Co-Regulation – accessing emotions to engage information-processing systems and create opportunities for corrective emotional experiences.

Through these skills, ThrivePointe counselors promote safety and security in the therapeutic relationship. Feeling safe and secure is crucial in therapy because it helps a client regulate emotion and mobilizes a client’s motivation to take risks and make changes.

Growth Oriented

We are committed to the continual pursuit of excellence.

One of the ways we pursue excellence is by becoming better at our craft. We care about improvement because therapists who develop expertise in the field have better results. Those scoring in the top 25% when it comes to effectiveness have outcomes twice the size as therapists in the bottom 25%.

Through the right sort of training and practice, anyone can develop abilities they would not otherwise possess because the brain and body are amazingly adaptable. ThrivePointe uses the “Cycle of Excellence” – a deliberate practice approach – to develop therapist expertise and provide an excellent experience for clients.

Deliberate practice is the gold standard for anyone in any field who wishes to take advantage of the gift of adaptability in order to build new skills and abilities.

Results Driven

Treatments that Work

Evidence-Based Practice applies treatments that have been backed by scientific evidence. That is, studies have been conducted and extensive research has been documented on a particular treatment, and it has proven to be successful.

When searching for mental health care, many focus on access: Can I get care quickly at an affordable price? Access is important, but so are outcomes—or knowing the care you receive is actually improving your symptoms and leads you into a flourishing life. ThrivePointe uses evidence-based treatments as a way to increase the quality of treatment and accountability for positive results.

Feedback Informed Treatment

Feedback-Informed Treatment (FIT) is an evidence-based practice where clinicians gather real-time input from clients using structured measures to identify what is and is not working in therapy and then make adjustments to better meet a client’s needs. The type of client feedback that is most useful is how the client feels about the therapist (alliance) and whether the client’s problems are getting worse (outcomes).

In 2010, a study was conducted on integrating client alliance and outcome feedback into counseling services, which found that simply incorporating client feedback improved counseling outcomes by as much as 65%, decreased client dropout rates by half and decreased deterioration (clients who got worse) by 33%. The act of consistently engaging with clients about their experience of the alliance and the degree to which the sessions were helpful had a profound influence on client outcome.

This is why we believe creating a culture of feedback in therapy is an essential part of the work we do with clients and we use the Outcome-Rating Scale (ORS) and the Session-Rating Scale (SRS) as part of our Feedback-Informed process. These tools privilege the client’s voice and provide a reference point for the client’s experience. ThrivePointe uses this feedback to guide and adapt services to individualize treatment needs for the clients we serve.