SERVICES
Individual Counseling
Individual therapy, often referred to as Adlerian therapy, is an approach in which your therapist works with you to identify obstacles and create effective strategies for working towards mutually agreed upon goals. Adlerians believe that, by gaining insight into one's challenges, you can overcome negative feelings you are experiencing. This type of therapy consists of four stages: engagement, assessment, insight and reorientation.
Children Counseling
Our team utilizes expressive and play based strategies to explore, understand, and assist children with their social, mental and emotional development. These expressive strategies help children to develop emotional control, build self-confidence and improve interactions with others. Some of our areas of expertise that we help children with include:
ADD/ADHD
Anxiety
Big Emotions
Bullying
Challenging Behaviors
Divorce
Family relationship issues
Friendships & Social Skills
Grief & Loss
Sleep Issues
Teens Counseling
Adolescence is a challenging time for many reasons. It is the first time many individuals feel an increase in responsibilities and changing relationships with peers and family. It can difficult to decipher between typical teen behaviors from more troubling ones that need to be explored. We offer a safe environment for teenagers to openly share their feelings and thoughts. We aim to provide a non-judgemental and supportive environment for teens and parents. We work with families to balance their teen’s need for independence and identity development with healthy parenting. Some of our areas of expertise that we help teens include:
Anxiety
Depression
Gender Identity
Family stressors
Friendship
School and learning issues
Self Harm
Sexuality
Stress
Suicidal Ideation
Trauma
Eating Disorders
Adult Counseling
There is no age limit for developing psychological or mental problems. Everyone from a young child to a senior person of 80 plus may be affected by issues. However, treating adult patients plagued with mental problems is often the most difficult. Most of them have had some experience with the world and will have formed their own ideas when they appear before a counselor for treatment. It is therefore the responsibility of the counselor, to get them to give up their fixed notions and learn to accept their problems first. The adult counselor thus has to deal with the mind and the spirit as well as the body of the patient via talk therapy, medication and supplementary coaching on health, nutrition and physical fitness. The ultimate aim is to convert the troubled adult into a whole person, healthy both physically and mentally. Some of our areas of expertise that we help adults include:
Life Transitions
Stress management
Work Life Balance
Anxiety
Depression
Trauma
Online Counseling
Virtual counseling sessions allow you or your child to connect with a counselor online, through a HIPPA compliant platform. You can get the same benefits of counseling from the comfort of your own home. Now you or your child can get the help you need while maintaining work schedules, academic demands, extra-curricular activities and social life. Online counseling provides a healthy and safe space to work on yourself and learn better ways to handle your thoughts, feelings, relationships, home and work life. You and your child’s mental health is a top priority to our team. A busy schedule should not be a barrier to your mental health needs. Contact us today about our virtual visits.
Group Counseling
Group therapy is a great source of support and growth for people of all ages. Group is an opportunity for individuals to hear from peers who are likely experiencing the same issues or struggling with the same problems they are. The individuals in the group act as a source of insight and support while reinforcing the idea that each individual is not the only one experiencing these problems. Groups include one or two therapists working with a group of 4-8 individuals on specific skills or how to process challenging situations. Our groups are designed to educate and help improve overall mental health and well being. We even offer groups virtually!
Young Adult Counseling
People who participate in group counseling benefit in many ways. It is our belief that groups are uniquely suited to young adults for the following reasons:.
Give and receive support
Gain understanding of problems and explore possible solutions
Practice interpersonal skills in a safe group setting
Learn more about how you come across to others
Increase observation and feedback skills
Enhance problem-solving skills
Improve emotional expressiveness
Decrease social isolation
Develop good communication skills.
Corporate Counseling
This type of counseling is designed to help employees achieve personal and team effectiveness in the workplace and assess and enhance individual employee work style. Also, it improves communication skills and relationships at work and at home. Being able to offer counseling services through your company means employees will have access to tailored services and counseling strategies to help them through unique workplace and home life challenges. And, the result is a higher performing staff and a more positive organizational culture. The sessions can be designed to address:
Strategic Initiatives
Business Imperatives
Coaching Skills
Leadership & Development
Diversity & Inclusion
Stress Management Counseling
Few people will deny they have been stressed at least once in their life. For many stress happens often and can be ongoing and unbearable. Chronic stress can contribute to numerous mental health and physical health issues which includes:
Insomnia or hypersomnia
Feeling more or less hungry than usual
Self-soothing with drugs or alcohol
Changes in mood or mental health
Less productivity and enjoyment at work
Intimacy problems
Migraine headaches
Chronic pain
Anger issues
Depression
Anxiety
Loss of enjoyment in social activities
Heart attack and stroke
Career Guidance Counseling
A program developed to help individuals acquire the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary to identify options, explore alternatives and succeed in society. These programs better prepare individuals for the changing workplace of the 21st century by:
teaching market changes and complexity of the workplace
broadening knowledge, skills, and abilities
improving decision making skills
increasing self-esteem and motivation
building interpersonal effectiveness
maximizing career opportunities
improving employment marketability and opportunities
Family Counseling
Our family affects who we are and who we become, for better and for worse. We learn our vocabulary, our habits, our customs and rituals, and how to view and observe the world around us. If we are born into a healthy family with healthy relationships, we are likely to learn how to maintain healthy relationships. If we are born into a dysfunctional family that struggles to connect, we may also struggle to connect with others.
Parenting Coaching
Parenting can be satisfying and fulfilling. But it can also be difficult and time-consuming. Parents must tend to an infant or child’s daily needs. They are also responsible for helping each of their children develop life skills. These skills include daily living skills, social skills, and appropriate behaviors. New parents, overwhelmed parents and parents facing mental health conditions may benefit from the support of a mental health professional. A therapist or counselor can help parents navigate difficult situations and/or behavioral concerns.
Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance is about keeping a separation between your work and your play/family life with proper prioritizing of your roles in each. This problem has become more and more prevalent as communication technologies have advanced. Now, even if you are not physically at work, your computer and cell phone put you in constant contact with work. Making it difficult to respect the boundaries between your work and time for life/play/family. The work-life balance is personal and individual, no two are the same and there is no exact science to figure out what is the right balance.
Marriage Counseling
Marriage counseling can help couples in all types of intimate relationships — regardless of sexual orientation or marriage status. Some couples seek marriage counseling to strengthen their partnership and gain a better understanding of each other. It can also help couples planning on getting married. Premarital counseling can help provide couples with a much deeper understanding of each other and iron out differences before marriage. In other cases, couples seek marriage counseling to improve a troubled relationship. You can use marriage counseling to help with many specific issues ranging from overcoming the challenges from infidelity to helping improve communications.
Family Problems Counseling
While it is certainly unlucky to be born into a dysfunctional family, it’s not an unchangeable situation. Nearly all families deal with some sort of dysfunction at one time or another, yet most families retain or regain a sense of wholeness and happiness. Family therapy offers families a way to do this; a way to develop or maintain a healthy and functional family.