Contact Demire Coffin-Williams,LMHC
​for an appointment.
d.coffin.williams@gmail.com
(716)391-0118
Buffalo, NY
The relationship between the events in our lives, they way we think about them, and the way we feel about them is very complex. Sometimes it’s almost as if the “thought train” never stops. Stealing moments of precious sleep and peace from our lives. Sometimes we can become fixated on making sure negative emotions don’t take up space in our minds. Sometimes it’s like no matter how many positive things we have to focus on their are always still more painful things that creep in. Like a never ending game of chess, where the black pieces are our painful thoughts and feelings and the white pieces represent the experiences we like or enjoy. But what if there was an option that didn’t involve fighting with yourself or your experience at all? Would you give up the fight in exchange for freedom?

Solution Focused & Brief

​Unlike traditional forms of therapy that take time to analyze problems, pathology and past life events, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) concentrates on finding solutions in the present time and exploring one’s hope for the future to find quicker resolution of one’s problems. This method takes the approach that you know what you need to do to improve your own life and, with the appropriate coaching and questioning, are capable of finding the best solutions.

Dialectical-Behavior Techniques
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Dialectical behavior therapy(DBT) provides clients with new skills to manage painful emotions and decrease conflict in relationships. DBT specifically focuses on providing therapeutic skills in four key areas. First, mindfulness focuses on improving an individual's ability to accept and be present in the current moment. Second, distress tolerance is geared toward increasing a person’s tolerance of negative emotion, rather than trying to escape from it. Third, emotion regulation covers strategies to manage and change intense emotions that are causing problems in a person’s life. Fourth, interpersonal effectiveness consists of techniques that allow a person to communicate with others in a way that is assertive maintains self-respect, and strengthens relationships.

Mindfulness and Spirituality

Mindfulness and spirituality have been researched extensively and the results consistently show that allowing patients to embrace their spiritual truths lead to better therapeutic outcomes. Bring your spirit with you.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

The aim of acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is to develop a characteristic called psychological flexibility. This quality is developed by engaging in 6 core processes that help the change our relationship to our experiences. The 6 core processes are: acceptance, mindfulness, cognitive defusion, self-as-context, values and committed action. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is an appropriate approach for experiences associated with Anxiety, Depression, Concerns with eating, Anger management, Infidelity management/sexual impulse control, relapse prevention (addiction).

ACT for PSYCHOSIS
At Holistic Wellness & Recovery we apply the principles of our guiding philosophies the these confusing and terrifying experiences. This allows us to measure progress in accordance to what the people we serve wants. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for psychosis is a mindfulness based model that prioritizes personal values as a method of reaching a place of wellness. Together we work toward practicing the 6 core process of psychological flexibility that lead to a deep and meaningful life.

CBT-p
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for psychosis is a method of treating psychotic illness that seeks to help people reinterpret some of their most distressing experiences. This allows them to then decide how they want to behave in response.

Treatment approach
Due to the complex nature of these particular types of illness a more intensive course of action is required. Clients being served through Holistic Wellness & Recovery can expect:
  • ​Ongoing collaboration with PCP and psychiatry. Linkage will be facilitated as needed. 
  • Care management services as needed to help maintain adherence to wellness/recovery plan.
  • ​Advocacy for services/Benefits/resources as needed.

If ACT and CBT-p where a family, they would be siblings. They both share foundational principles and utilize techniques that can be complimentary and helpful...
Psycho-spiritual Methods
The following services and methods are called "Psycho-spiritual" in this practice. The are called this because they are utilized in order to help clients address issues that may be impacting them mentally and physically. This practice endorses the conceptual separation of the Brain, and the Mind, and where counseling and therapy may not be able to impact the Brain (like surgery and pharmaceuticals can) these methods can certainly impact the mind and help create exciting new insights into PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT as well as PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY. These methods are not marketed as clinical, empirical, nor evidence based and are not based in science in the way that other methods (also practiced at HW&R) are. 
  1. Tarot Consultation
  2. Reiki Session / Attunement / Energy work
  3. Personalized Mantra Design
  4. Birth Chart Review - Future Focused planning 
  5. Totem/Vodoo Doll/Poppet Construction 
  6. Ritual Design
  7. Meditation Instruction
  8. Yoga (releasing attachments, engaging with personal enlightenment journey)  
  9. Ancestral work/ Generational Karma work ​
Clinical / Empirical Methods
The following services and methods are empirical - meaning the techniques, when utilized with fidelity, will likely yield measurable progress toward measurable goals. These methods are powerful and have been studied for quite some time in universities, and other public and private clinical institutions. These sessions and methods are likely to be covered by participating insurance providers.
  1. Mindfulness Skills Training
  2. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  3. Ritual Design 
  4. Group Therapy 
  5. Couple/Family/Relationship Therapy
  6. Dialectical Behavior Therapy
  7. Coping Skills training
  8. Wellness Self-Management 
  9. Individual Counseling/Therapy
  10. Yoga (Trauma recovery, moving toward wellness)
  11. Solution Focused Therapy 
  12. Emotional Fredom Techniques
  13. Cognitive - Behavioral Therapy