Counseling

Therapeutic Approach

An educational approach emphasizing the life skills of communication, emotional awareness, and conflict negotiation is the basis for the therapeutic approach. Creatively blending techniques and procedures from several disciplines of counseling is often the best way to meet the needs of individual clients. Additionally, goal setting is important as goals provide us with a framework for motivation, education, and for evaluating progress. 

Individual Counseling

Working with clients to help focus their awareness on strengths rather than weaknesses is key. Clients are encouraged to identify changes they want to make in their lives and create ways to maintain these changes.  Working with clients to help focus their awareness on strengths rather than weaknesses is key. Clients are encouraged to identify changes they want to make in their lives and create ways to maintain these changes.  

Families, Children,  Teens & Tweens

In working with families and children, it is important to use encouragement, rational thinking and logical consequences. Identifying goals and understanding misdirected goals is achieved with parent/child communication skills. Often it is the transition points between life stages that create the most stress for families. Working with the family to understand this helps resolve developmental issues so the family may move forward in the cycle of their family growth.

Marriage Counseling

Counseling with a couple involves helping each partner develop a healthy independence, as well as a necessary interdependence. This is accomplished by using techniques that help to develop self-awareness and improve the communication skills of both partners.

Group Counseling

Group work encourages members to become aware of how they relate to others and how others relate to them. This perception of self and others is fundamental in group counseling. It s an excellent forum for learning self expression and communication skills.

Career Counseling

Ensuring clients have a clear understanding of their aptitudes, abilities, interests, and resources is crucial. Testing is available to help learn about individual strengths. This process might involve helping the client deal effectively with job stress, fear of failure and other barriers to successful job placement.