Family Therapy Associates
Licensed Professional Counselor, PhD, LPC, MFT
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of Wisconsin / 6079-125 Gia Hepfler
- In Practice for 16 Years
- License: MFT 846-228
- Degree/Diploma from Masters in Mental Health Counseling / 2007
Licensed Professional Counselor: Gia Hepfler
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Trauma and PTSD
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Eating Disorders
Expertise
- Antisocial Personality
- Anxiety
- Behavioral Issues
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body Positivity
- Dissociative Disorders (DID)
- Divorce
- Domestic Abuse
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- First Responders
- Infidelity
- Marital and Premarital
- Narcissistic Personality (NPD)
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Psychosis
- Relationship Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Sex Therapy
- Sexual Abuse
- Suicidal Ideation
- Women's Issues
Client Focus
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Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Clinical Supervision and Licensed Supervisors
- Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
- EMDR
- Emotionally Focused
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Gottman Method
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Trauma Focused
Groups
DBT
Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) combines cognitive behavioral therapy, talk therapy, psycho-educational skill building and mindfulness exercises. This combined approach is highly effective in healing self-destructive behaviors and managing emotional overwhelm that oftentimes stem from traumatic experiences.
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EMDR group therapy
Clients that want to work on increasing stabilization skills, reduce emotional distress and decrease issues that follow trauma. Although it's a group setting, processing is done individually. Group is a way to get EMDR treatment to more than one person at a time, but not a group where clients process their trauma together. Processing is done individually. This group is good for people that want to continue to work with their individual therapist but also get EMDR or wanting to get EMDR but don't want to be on a waitlist to get into a therapist that provides EMDR.
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Disordered Eating
This group is for people that have an unhealthy relationship with food and/or body. This group's goals are to improve relationship with food and body, increase knowledge of emotions and how they relate to food and body, reduce feelings of shame and guilt, connect with others with shared experiences, thoughts and emotions, increase self-worth and increase hopefulness for better relationship with food and body. This group is done virtually.
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