Our Services
At The Ungar Center for Hope, we're dedicated to helping you heal and grow by breaking down barriers to emotional wellness. Check out our services below to discover the support that best fits your unique journey toward lasting recovery.
Group Therapy
We offer multiple therapy groups designed to address a wide range of personal needs and experiences. Each group focuses on specific areas of growth and healing, giving you the opportunity to find support that aligns with your unique situation.
Our groups provide a safe, confidential space where individuals can share, learn, and grow together. Facilitated by experienced professionals, these groups foster an environment of trust and respect, helping you feel safe in opening up. You'll gain new insights, build meaningful connections, and develop the skills needed to move forward with greater confidence and clarity.
Individual Therapy
In our one-on-one therapy sessions, you’ll find a private, supportive space to explore your life experiences, work through the events that have shaped you into who you are, and experience healing on a deeper, more personal level. Whether you're looking to understand past memories, process difficult emotions, or make sense of how your experiences are affecting your present, these sessions offer the opportunity to move forward at your own pace.
With the guidance of a compassionate therapist, you'll have the space to unpack emotions and memories in a way that feels comfortable and safe. These sessions are designed to help you process complex feelings, heal emotional wounds, and gain clarity on how your past may still be influencing your present life.
As you gain deeper insight into yourself, you may discover new strengths, resources, and pathways for personal growth. The goal is to support you in your journey toward healing, helping you move closer to a life that feels more peaceful, confident, and fulfilling—while building the emotional resilience to navigate life's challenges.
EMDR Therapy
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a clinically proven therapy that helps individuals process and heal from distressing memories and emotional pain by addressing how memories are stored in the brain. When we experience intense or upsetting events, our brains sometimes struggle to fully process those memories. These memories can become "stuck" in the brain’s neural pathways, leading to emotional distress, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
EMDR works by helping to reprocess these stuck memories through bilateral stimulation, allowing your brain to integrate them in a healthier way. This process helps to reduce the emotional charge attached to distressing memories, so that they no longer trigger the same intense reactions or flashbacks. As a result, you can experience greater emotional stability, reduced anxiety, and a sense of release from the impact of past experiences.
Through this therapy, you’ll be able to release the grip of past events, shift limiting beliefs, and regain control over your thoughts and feelings. EMDR isn’t about reliving painful memories; it’s about helping your brain process and release the emotional intensity of those memories. As you progress, you may notice fewer flashbacks, increased emotional resilience, and an overall sense of peace and clarity.
By processing these moments, EMDR allows you to break free from the cycle of re-experiencing distressing memories, empowering you to live with more confidence, balance, and a greater sense of well-being.
Nervous System Regulation
Our nervous system plays a vital role in how we respond to stress and emotions. When we face stressful or traumatic situations, our body’s natural response is to activate the fight-or-flight mechanism, preparing us to either confront or flee from perceived danger. This response is essential for survival, but when it's triggered too often, it can cause the nervous system to become dysregulated.
Nervous system dysregulation occurs when the body remains in this heightened state for too long, or when it doesn’t return to a calm baseline after a stressful event. This can happen due to ongoing stress, trauma, or unresolved emotional experiences. When this happens, the body may stay "on edge," with symptoms like chronic anxiety, trouble sleeping, or emotional numbness. Over time, this constant state of alertness can make it difficult to process emotions effectively or respond to life’s challenges in a healthy way.
Nervous system regulation involves learning to shift out of this heightened state and return to a more balanced, calm state. By developing the tools to manage this balance, you can help your body reset and restore emotional equilibrium, allowing you to respond to stress in a healthier, more grounded way.
Somatic Yoga
Somatic Yoga offers a unique approach to healing by focusing on the connection between your mind and body. Research has shown that our bodies hold onto emotions—often unconsciously—through muscle tension, posture, and movement patterns. These emotions can become trapped in the body, leading to chronic discomfort, stress, or even emotional distress. Somatic Yoga is designed to help you release this stored tension and reconnect with your body, promoting healing on a deeper level.
Through slow, mindful movements, breathwork, and body awareness techniques, Somatic Yoga helps you tune into areas where emotional stress may be held physically. By bringing conscious awareness to these areas, you can begin to release long-held tension and clear emotional blockages, allowing for greater emotional resilience and inner peace. The practice encourages you to move in ways that feel natural and supportive to your body, fostering relaxation and releasing physical and emotional stress.
The goal of Somatic Yoga is to help you become more aware of how your emotions are expressed through your body and to provide tools for releasing these stored emotions, ultimately promoting healing and emotional balance. As you continue this practice, you may notice reduced tension, increased flexibility, and a greater sense of ease in both your body and mind. By integrating these practices into your routine, you can build a stronger mind-body connection, enhance your emotional well-being, and experience greater calm, clarity, and vitality in your daily life.
Art Therapy
Art therapy offers a powerful way to connect with your emotions and promote healing. When words feel limiting, art provides an outlet for self-expression, helping you process feelings that might be hard to verbalize. Whether you're working through past experiences, managing stress, or navigating difficult emotions, art therapy uses creativity as a tool for emotional expression and healing.
Research shows that creative activities, like drawing or painting, activate brain areas linked to emotional processing and memory. By engaging with art, we tap into unconscious emotions and experiences, helping us process them more directly and holistically.
In art therapy, the focus is on the process, not on creating a perfect piece of art. As you engage with different art forms—such as drawing, painting, or sculpting—you externalize your emotions, gaining clarity and insight. This helps release pent-up feelings, reduce stress, and bring a sense of emotional well-being.
Art therapy is especially helpful for addressing difficult emotions, allowing you to explore them in a non-verbal way. Over time, the creative process fosters self-reflection and emotional growth, helping you release tension, deepen self-connection, and find empowerment. A skilled art therapist can guide you through the process with care, helping you feel supported and understood every step of the way.
Ultimately, art therapy provides a safe, non-judgmental space to explore your feelings, gain insights, and heal in a way that feels natural and empowering. The act of creating art itself supports emotional release, self-compassion, and personal growth.