Services are tailored to your personal strengths and needs

With Your Consent:  Your therapist will complete a clinical assessment. The information you share will help the therapist understand your personal strengths, needs and expectations for treatment. The therapist may make treatment recommendations.

Care Coordination:  Coordinating  your care with Health Care Providers (Doctors, Psychiatrists, Specialists, etc.).

Safety Plan: Identifies warning signs,  triggers, self-soothing skills. Persons and social situations offering distraction. A list of persons, including health care professionals whom may help. Suicide prevention hotline(s). What you and your family members can do to help make your environment safe. What is important to you and to identify what is worth living.  

Length of Sessions: Sessions lasts 45 to 60 minutes.  On a rare occasion, a session may last for 90 minutes, if it is crisis. Group sessions lasts for 90 minutes. 

Types of Sessions: Individual, Couple's, Family, Group 

Telehealth Care:  Using technology to communicate between you and your therapist. This occurs through video/audio conferencing over the internet. There may be some benefits to this type of care:

-Less exposure to illness.

-No commuting time or costs for travel to and from your appointment.

-No need to leave work or school.

-You can make an appointment during your lunch or break.

-No need to coordinate for childcare.

-Better health outcomes as you will be able to be seen as often as specified in your treatment plan.

  Cognitive Behavioral Therapy:  Increase awareness of your emotions, thoughts, beliefs, interpersonal experiences and behaviors about these problems. Identify distorted and/or negative thinking. Reshape negative or inaccurate thinking. 

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy:  Learning to manage painful and overwhelming emotions by learning mindfulness skills, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. 

Emotional Schema Therapy: Learn to be fully present with your emotions, learn where your emotions live in your body, interpret emotions, evaluate emotions, tolerate uncomfortable emotions and respond to emotions effectively to get your needs met. 

Grief Counseling:  A form of therapy that aims to help cope with the physical, emotional, social, spiritual  and cognitive responses to loss including secondary losses

 such as changes in relationships, schools, jobs, family finances and lifestyle.  

Humanistic Approach: The work emphasizes your personal growth and self-actualization by identifying your ideal true self and taking steps towards your life filled with personal meaning and purpose. Distorted thinking, unhelpful beliefs and/or negative attitudes are countered with skills to foster healthy thinking, beliefs that reflect your values and a resilient attitude. We explore how to further build and maintain a healthy relationship with yourself and others to support your growth.

Solutions Focused Therapy: Imagine your future, set goals and create realistic steps to help you get to where you would like to be.

   Mindfulness: Focused attention using senses to the present moment with an open attitude  so you can be more responsive and intentional in how you live your life.

Body Scanning: Doing a head to toe body scan for tension and uncomfortable tension and breathing through it while relaxing.

Progressive Muscle Relaxation: Relaxing your muscles through two- steps: Tense particular muscle groups followed by releasing the tension and noticing how your muscles feel when you relaxed.

Loving-Kindness: Cultivate an inclination for kindness involving mentally sending kindness, goodwill and warmth to yourself and others.

  Parenting Skills: Building a strong parent-child bond and increasing a child’s happiness, health and success through safety and security, love and affection, stress management, relationship skills, autonomy and independence, education and learning, life skills, behavior management, health, and spirituality.

If you are a parent of a youth receiving services, you will be included in learning coping skills so that you may coach and encourage for your child to use these tools.