ADHD

Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder that can affect a person’s attention, impulsivity, memory, and other cognitive functions. While it is often diagnosed in childhood, ADHD can affect people well into adulthood.

Anger Management

Many healthy people experience anger on a regular basis. It helps people process traumatic events and even small, everyday problems. When someone has an excess of uncontrolled anger, however, they may have an anger disorder. Anger disorders are often combined with other untreated mental disorders. Anger management therapy is different for everyone and is tailored to a patient’s needs.

Anxiety

Anxiety is a class of mental health disorders in which patients experience intense distress. An estimated 40 million adults in the United States experience a type of anxiety disorder each year, which adds up to more than 18 percent of the adult population. Anxiety also affects more than seven percent of children in the country, that’s 4.4 million children.

Relationship Issues

Many relationship problems revolve around lack of healthy, assertive communication — communication that is open, direct, respectful, honest, and personal. Couples get into problems when they’re afraid to be honest — usually because they think the truth will upset their partner and might jeopardize the relationship. Repetitive negative relationship patterns stem from problems originating in childhood, such as disrespectful communication, lack of nurturing or free emotional expression, a controlling parent, violation of boundaries, neglect, witnessing parental conflict, mental illness, addiction, or abuse.

Behavioral Issues

Behavioral disorders are classified as a pattern of behaviors that are disruptive and harmful to you and those around you. These disorders are typically diagnosed and treated in early childhood, but if left untreated they can affect your adult life making it difficult for you to maintain healthy relationships, regular employment, and other functions of a typical adult. Behavior disorders can greatly impact a person’s life. Whether you’ve been diagnosed since a child, are concerned about warning signs in a loved one, or are recognizing symptoms in your own life, the best way to treat a behavioral disorder is to be fully informed.

Child and Adolescent

Child counseling focuses on young children, teens, and adolescents with one or more mental illnesses. It also provides aid to youths, who have experienced trauma, and/or who are experiencing a dysfunctional or stressful home environment. Many of the issues these children face mimic the issues adults face in their day-to-day lives. Some of these common issues include anxiety, depression, and grief. The goal of child counseling, however, is to break down problems into manageable parts, so children can better understand and cope with them.

Coping Skills

Coping skills help you learn ways to manage, minimize, and deal with stressful situations in life. Managing your stress well can help you feel better physically and psychologically and it can impact your ability to perform your best. It’s important to establish healthy coping skills that will help you reduce your emotional distress or rid yourself of the stressful situations you face.

Family Conflict

Often times, families struggle to be a cohesive unit that works functionally and productively together. Family therapy helps to identify conflicts and anxieties and helps the family develop strategies to resolve them. Additionally, it strengthens all family members so they can work on their problems together.

Grief

Grief is an inevitable part of life however, the loss of a loved one is always an unexpected and challenging situation to cope with, even when the loss is expected. Grief refers to a feeling of sorrow and loss, and it is a personal experience. Grief can include a loss of loved one, loss of a relationship. Grief/Loss is the psychological-emotional experience following the loss of any kind. It stirs up a myriad of complex emotions, and its reality dwarfs everything you’ve heard about grieving. There is no way to prepare to grieve. Sometimes individuals struggle with grief for prolonged periods without improvement, and as a result, their ability to carry on with daily activities is disrupted. No matter how long it takes you to mourn a loved one, grief counseling can help you navigate one of the most challenging experiences of life.

Life Coaching

Life coaching is a type of wellness counseling that helps people make progress in their lives in order to attain greater fulfillment. Life coaching aids in improving individuals relationships, careers, and day-to-day lives. Life coaching can help you clarify your goals, identify the obstacles holding you back, and then come up with strategies for overcoming each obstacle.

Marital and Premarital

Marriage counseling helps couples of all types recognize and resolve conflicts and improve their relationships. Through marriage counseling, you can make thoughtful decisions about rebuilding and strengthening your relationship or going your separate ways. 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. Premarital counseling can help couples achieve a deeper understanding of each other and iron out differences before marriage.

Parenting

Being a parent can be the most rewarding experience you go through, but can also be the most taxing. Parent counseling is a service that aims to provide you with knowledge, guidance, tools, and emotional support, all without judgment or bias. Parent counseling focuses on how you as the parent affect the dynamics of your family. Key aspects when retaining harmony in your family is the way you parent your children, manage your personal issues, and handle conflict. Parent counseling is an invaluable service that will offer you unbiased guidance and support; helping you understand and identify the needs of every individual in your family and better look after the well-being of your family unit.

Peer Relationships

Peer relationships can determine an individual’s life path. From childhood friends, to romantic teenager partnerships, peers are often pertinent to the formation of self growth and development. Social and emotional growth are connected, and both play a role in mental health. When developing close relationships with peers, individuals are developing socially. When these relationships become negative, and an individual feels the need to conform under pressure, therapy can help provide support for self-individuation. Poor peer relations can negatively affect development.

Self Esteem

Self esteem affects our thoughts as well as how we act. Self esteem goes up and down throughout anyone’s life. Improving self esteem takes time and effort. In some cases, individuals may have unusually high self esteem which can also be unhealthy and might indicate a narcissistic personality disorder. Those with low self esteem can suffer from other issues such as depression.

Supervision Towards Licensure

Professional supervision is to enhance professional development and competency and equip the applicant towards licensure. Supervision for professionals working towards LPC, LCSW, or LMFT. Internships available for those seeking completion of a Bachelor and or Master Degree. Contact us for additional details.