Modalities We Use

The Intentional Progression Framework™

Developed by our founder, Elias Moran, LPC, IPF is what sets care at Confianza apart: a clear, four-phase path so you always know where you are, what's next, and why — instead of open-ended sessions with no sense of direction.

You move through it at a pace you help set, alongside a clinician who's tracking real progress with you, not just filling an hour.

1. 1Understand
2. 2Stabilize
3. 3Progress
4. 4Thrive

Trauma-Informed at Every Step

Every part of care is shaped by these principles, so you feel safe, respected and never judged:

• Safety
• Trust
• Collaboration
• Peer support
• Voice and choice
• Respect for cultural, historical and gender context

Why a Framework Changes the Experience

The difference isn't the techniques used — it's whether you can always see where you are.

A Note on Modalities

Not every approach below fits every person, concern or age, and availability depends on clinician training — details are confirmed during intake.

CBT — Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Noticing how thoughts, feelings, actions and situations shape each other, and building more flexible thinking and effective responses.

CBT examines the relationship among thoughts, emotions, behavior and the situations in which difficulties occur. It's collaborative, structured and often skills-focused: clients may learn to notice patterns, test beliefs, approach avoided situations gradually, solve problems, and practice new responses between sessions. CBT isn't simply "thinking positively" — it aims for more accurate, flexible thinking and effective action.

DBT — Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Skills for mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and relationships, drawn from DBT.

DBT combines acceptance and change, teaching skills in mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. Comprehensive DBT is a coordinated treatment model with specific components; some clinicians instead incorporate selected DBT-informed skills into other care. Which applies is confirmed during intake.

TF-CBT — Trauma-Focused CBT

A structured, evidence-based path for children and teens after trauma, often including a supportive caregiver.

TF-CBT is an evidence-based treatment for children and adolescents with trauma-related difficulties, and includes work with a nonoffending parent or caregiver when appropriate. It combines education, coping and regulation skills, gradual trauma processing, caregiver support, joint sessions when clinically appropriate, and safety or future-development work.

MI — Motivational Interviewing

A collaborative conversation that listens for your own reasons for change, rather than arguing for one.

MI is a collaborative communication approach for strengthening a person's own motivation and commitment to change. The clinician listens for the client's values, concerns and reasons for change rather than arguing, confronting or imposing a decision — especially useful when a person feels ambivalent, pressured, uncertain or discouraged.

EMDR — Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

A structured, trauma-focused approach using guided eye movements or alternating sounds to ease distress tied to difficult memories.

EMDR is a structured, trauma-focused psychotherapy: assessment and preparation, identifying a distressing memory and related beliefs or body sensations, bilateral stimulation such as guided eye movements or alternating sounds, and review of the person's response. It doesn't require erasing memory — the goal is to reduce the ongoing distress connected with traumatic experiences.

Person-Centered — Person-Centered Therapy

A nonjudgmental relationship built on empathy and respect, trusting your own capacity for growth.

Person-centered therapy emphasizes empathy, respect, authenticity and the client's own capacity for growth. The therapeutic relationship itself provides a nonjudgmental setting in which clients can clarify their experience, values, choices and direction.

SFBT — Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

A focused conversation on strengths, what's already working, and small, observable steps toward change.

SFBT emphasizes strengths, exceptions to the problem, preferred outcomes and small, observable steps toward change. It can be useful when clients want a focused, collaborative conversation about what's already working and what progress would look like.

Family Systems — Family Systems Approaches

Looking at recurring patterns, roles and communication within a family, to help members change what affects them together.

Family systems approaches examine recurring interaction patterns, roles, boundaries, communication and the context surrounding a problem. Treatment may involve couples, caregivers, children or other family members when appropriate — the purpose isn't to blame a family, but to help members understand and change patterns that affect them together.

Strengths-Based Care — Strengths-Based & Culturally Responsive Care

Care that starts with your capacities, resources and community, and asks how identity, culture and faith shape what fits you.

Strengths-based care recognizes capacities, resources, relationships and community knowledge, rather than defining a person only by symptoms. Culturally responsive care asks how identity, language, family, faith, migration and social conditions shape a person's experience and preferences — it calls for humility and curiosity rather than assumptions.

Play-Based — Play & Developmentally Responsive Approaches

For children, care that meets them through play, creativity and story, matched to their developmental level.

Children may communicate and learn through play, creativity, movement, stories, games and caregiver interaction. Developmentally responsive care matches language, expectations, activities and family involvement to the child's developmental level, distinct from formal play therapy, which requires specific clinician training.

What to Expect

1. 1Reach OutCall, email, or request an appointment online.
2. 2Match With A ProviderWe help you find a clinician who fits what you need.
3. 3Begin CounselingMeet in Avondale, in Phoenix, or by telehealth.
4. 4Move Toward Your GoalsGrow at your own pace, with support along the way.