The BRIDGE Framework

Some difficulties are maintained by worry, rumination, avoidance, perfectionism, or the search for certainty. Others may involve emotional disconnection, relationship patterns, trauma, shame, protective responses, or deeply held beliefs that make change feel unsafe.

The BRIDGE Framework is the process I use to organize our work. It helps us identify what you are experiencing, understand what may be keeping the difficulty in place, determine what needs attention, and integrate therapeutic approaches that can support meaningful change. 

The process helps us consider questions such as:

• What are you experiencing now? 
• What may be keeping the difficulty in place? 
• What matters most to you? 
• What may help meaningful change take hold and last? 

The BRIDGE moves from identifying and understanding what is happening toward clarifying what matters, developing new possibilities, and learning through new experiences.   We may move among these areas rather than addressing them in a prescribed order. The process is adapted to what you are experiencing, what may be keeping the difficulty in place, and what you want to be different. 

BRIDGE is not a therapy modality, treatment protocol, or stand-alone clinical service. It is the flexible process I use to organize individualized, collaborative, integrative therapy.