Abby Goldsby (she/they)

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

I use dissociation-informed IFS and Ego State Therapy for parts work. These let us engage directly with inner conflicts, help separate you from intense feelings or urges, allow us to gently metabolize trauma, and can bring a sense of inner cohesion, especially if you experience more fragmentation. In parts work, we can get creative with how we access the inner world, including somatic or body-based techniques, visualization, and elements of guided hypnosis.

Depth Therapy

Coherence Therapy is a type of depth therapy (which focuses on the unconscious and implicit) that sees the way "out" of difficult symptoms as "going in". We'll use memory reconsolidation to seek out and “unlock” the deeply embedded emotional memories that anchor them in the present and update them there before letting them re-stabilize, allowing for transformative shifts at the root.

Experiential

Experiential methods let us tap into parts of your experience that you would usually be unaware of. Often times the idea of this can make people (especially those who’ve spent a very long time avoiding what’s inside) feel apprehensive; the helpful thing about this kind of therapy is that we typically start with the barriers (defenses, resistance, protective parts, whatever you want to call it) that come up to you, me, or both of us trying to look at what's there.

Attachment Theory

Emotional learning from chronic misattunement, blurred boundaries or roles, dysregulation, and more acute harm within your relationships with attachment figures in your most formative years guides your inner models for how things work and what to expect, usually at the cost of your needs, access to emotions, and sense of self. These models then play out on a deep, automatic level in the present, creating an interconnected constellation of symptoms.

Relational 

I expect and welcome the ways you experience interpersonal relationships outside of therapy to show up in our dynamic, and we’ll use this as an access point to deeper work. I take on the role of a guide rather than an expert, helping you to discover what parts of you already know to be true. The relational experience you can get in therapy--being seen, valued, and cared for by a secure, regulated attachment figure--can be part of what starts to shift old patterns.

Dissociative Disorder (DD)

I work with dissociation and dissociative disorders along the dissociative spectrum. Often times, because dissociation's function is to keep you from some degree of awareness, it can go completely unnoticed while still having an immense impact on how you relate to yourself and others. I am always paying attention to what cues for it may be present and assessing more in depth as needed.

PTSD

I focus on complex trauma (CPTSD), attachment trauma, and developmental trauma.

LGBTQ Issues

I am LGBTQ-identified and love working with those in my community.