Services
Providing mental health counseling to adults, children, adolescents, couples and families.
Helping clients achieve balance to live a more complete and fulfilled life. Maybe you feel a lot of sadness, grief, guilt, fear, or other uncomfortable emotions. Maybe you have thoughts of, “I’m not good enough,” “I’m worthless,” or “I’ll never get over this.” Maybe you keep to yourself more and have difficulty leaving the house or getting out of bed or maybe memories pop into your head without warning and leave you feeling scared and unable to move.
If you have been experiencing these emotions, thoughts, and behaviors, I can help. Counseling, also called psychotherapy or therapy, allows you to talk to a licensed clinical psychotherapist who can help you address these uncomfortable experiences and learn new ways to deal with them.
- Teaching you how to change thoughts and behaviors
- Feel better mentally and physically.
- See a decrease in your symptoms when following recommended approaches
- Feel better about relationships you have with others.
- Better connect with your friends and family.
- Set and achieve goals, like getting a job, applying for college, completing tasks at home, and revisiting hobbies you used to enjoy.
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Types of Counseling Services
Grief Counseling
Grief counseling, also known as bereavement therapy, is a form of therapy intended to help you cope with loss, like the death of a family member, partner, friend, colleague, or pet. Grief can also be simply over the loss of a way of life, such as losing your job, getting a divorce, or your health. Grief is a normal emotional reaction to a significant loss, and often, grief counseling can be a helpful way to accept or recover from painful loss. Sometimes people find their grief to be debilitating, making it hard for them to function in their everyday life, but grief counseling therapy shows them how to function again. In the aftermath of a loss, you may experience a range of emotions that can include: Shock, Numbness, Sorrow, Yearning, Anger, Denial, Helplessness, Regret, Guilt, and Anxiety.
LGBTQ+ Counseling
LGBTQ+ counseling provides support for this client population, targeting the specific issues faced by this group such as self-esteem concerns, discrimination, social stigma, the process of or concerns with ‘coming out,’ depression, and anxiety, among numerous other concerns. There are many aspects of LGBTQ+ counseling that are similar to any other therapeutic approach; however, this counseling is delivered by treatment providers who uniquely focus on the needs of this population. LGBTQ+ counseling services provide people with a safe place to come out. The most important thing an LGBT individual needs to learn is to be firm in their identity and orientation so that when they do choose to talk with their friends and family, they will be confident and less vulnerable to rejection.
Counseling for Depression: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy emerged during the 1960s and originated in the work of psychiatrist Aaron Beck, who noted that certain types of thinking contributed to emotional problems. Beck labeled these “automatic negative thoughts” and developed the process of cognitive therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a form of mental health counseling (psychotherapy) that identifies and addresses negative or inaccurate thinking and equips the client with new coping skills to better manage stressful life situations in a healthy way.CBT works well for individuals who are able to be introspective. It is commonly used because of its highly specific goals, short-term length and measurable outcomes. CBT is used to treat a wide range of emotional challenges and mental health conditions, including, but not limited to: Dependencies, Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Phobias, OCD, PTSD, Overcoming emotional trauma related to abuse or violence, Resolving relational conflict, and more. Today, cognitive-behavioral therapy is one of the most well-studied forms of treatment.
Play Therapy
Play Therapy is a treatment approach for children where a qualified mental health therapist engages in interventions that allow the child to express themselves through play activities. Play therapy allows the natural language of the child “playing” to communicate their emotions and frustrations to the trained therapist. By addressing children’s problems in the clinical play therapy setting, children find healthier solutions to their dilemmas. The play therapist, through a non-directive approach, allows the child to gain insight into his or her feelings, as well as to develop their problem-solving skills. In play therapy, toys are like the child’s words and play is their language. Today’s research highlights the benefits of play therapy in addressing the following concerns: Autism, Developmental delays, Adoption, Grief, ADHD, Anxiety, Selective Mutism, Depression, Adjustment to Divorce and more.
Marital Counseling
Attending marital counseling, more commonly categorized as couples counseling, does not necessarily mean there is a huge problem in your marriage or relationship. Many individuals attend couples counseling sessions just to help improve their relationship. Marriage counseling alone does not indicate that your marriage is in distress. All relationships have ups and downs and the people involved may need time to process and move forward during these times. In distressed relationships, partners may begin to feel dissatisfied with the relationship and when, through fighting, they do not come up with a solution, instead they become worn out and fatigued. It becomes easy to disconnect at this point and lose the strong connection that may have once existed. When this happens, an outside opinion and relationship guidance can be invaluable. Couples counseling is a variation of psychotherapy in which couples learn to overcome differences that are putting strain on their relationship. This gives them the tools to recognize and resolve conflicts in a safe place with a neutral third party, which can make all the difference.
Stress management therapy
Stress is a normal and sometimes healthy psychological and physical reaction to the demands of life. It can prevent many dangers and threats from becoming realized, as it serves the purpose of our body’s alarm system. When it becomes too much, stress can manifest itself in physical and mental problems. The most common physical manifestations are pain such as headaches, stomach pain, and back pain, but it can also affect your immune system as well and make you more prone to contracting colds and other viruses. Mentally, stress can cause you to become moody, depressed, or irritable. Stress management therapy from trained mental health professionals can help you prevent these uncomfortable and painful displays of stress and can give you the tools you need to overcome stress and form healthy ways to relieve stress naturally. Stress Management involves a series of coping skills specifically applied to manage life stressors. The purpose of these coping skills is to help people practice problem-solving strategies, manage conflict, use improved communication and interpersonal skills, and overall become more resilient in the face of stress. The purpose of stress management is not to avoid stress, but instead, to be able to accept that stress is inevitable and it is through the practice of positive coping skills that life stressors can become more manageable.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a type of mind-body intervention in which hypnosis is used to create a state of focused attention and increased suggestibility in the treatment of a medical or psychological disorder or concern. The focus is on rapid release breakthroughs through amplified insight and activating inner resources in the state of hypnosis. A client’s feelings of safety and care are of utmost importance. Clinicians choose hypnotherapy to address a wide range of circumstances such as anxiety, phobias, road rage, weight, smoking, drinking, unsafe sex and more.