Our Services
We provide counseling services to help clients address a wide variety of challenges.
We’re here to help
People often associate therapy with mental illness, but have you ever considered meeting with a therapist to help you with your business, career, relationship, or life transitions? As a professional working in a fast-paced, competitive environment, you probably face many challenges in your career and personal life. You don’t have to face those challenges alone.
Whatever life issues or feelings you’re experiencing, you shouldn’t have to go through them alone.
Schedule an appointment today. We have daytime, evening, and weekend appointments available to accommodate your schedule. We look forward to helping you.
Types of Treatment
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Cognitive-behavioral therapy stresses the role of thinking in how we feel and what we do. It is based on the belief that thoughts, rather than people or events, cause our negative feelings.
Culturally Sensitive
Culturally sensitive therapists provide therapy that is culturally sensitive. They understand that people from different backgrounds have different values, practices, and beliefs, and are sensitive to those differences when working with individuals and families in therapy.
Dialectal Behavior Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is the treatment most closely associated with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Therapists practice DBT in both individual and group sessions. The therapy combines elements of CBT to help with regulating emotion through distress tolerance and mindfulness. The goal of Dialectical Behavior Therapy is to alleviate the intense emotional pain associated with BPD.
Mindfulness Behavior Cognitive Training
For clients with chronic pain, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, and other health issues such as anxiety and depression, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, or MBCT, is a two-part therapy that aims to reduce stress, manage pain, and embrace the freedom to respond to situations by choice. MCBT blends two disciplines–cognitive therapy and mindfulness. Mindfulness helps by reflecting on moments and thoughts without passing judgment. MBCT clients pay close attention to their feelings to reach an objective mindset, thus viewing and combating life’s unpleasant occurrences.
Person-Centered Therapy
Person-centered therapy uses a non-authoritative approach that allows clients to take more of a lead in discussions so that, in the process, they will discover their own solutions. The therapist acts as a compassionate facilitator, listening without judgment and acknowledging the client’s experience without moving the conversation in another direction. The therapist is there to encourage and support the client and to guide the therapeutic process without interrupting or interfering with the client’s process of self-discovery.
Positive Psychology
Unlike traditional psychology that focuses more on the causes and symptoms of mental illnesses and emotional disturbances, positive psychology emphasizes traits, thinking patterns, behaviors, and experiences that are forward-thinking and can help improve the quality of a person’s day-to-day life. These may include optimism, spirituality, hopefulness, happiness, creativity, perseverance, justice, and the practice of free will. It is an exploration of one’s strengths, rather than one’s weaknesses. The goal of positive psychology is not to replace those traditional forms of therapy that center on negative experiences, but instead to expand and give more balance to the therapeutic process.
Relational
Relational life therapy offers strategies to combat marital dysfunction and restore harmony in relationships. Couples–those recovering from affairs, traumatic events, or a lull in passion–can find RLT helpful. To repair discord, the therapist identifies the main conflict upsetting the couples’ emotional intimacy. Once the partners see how they both contribute to the problem, the therapist teaches them skills to improve the ways they relate to each other. Couples may see a change in their relationship within three to six months.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Solution-focused therapy sometimes called “brief therapy,” focuses on what clients would like to achieve through therapy rather than on their troubles or mental health issues. The therapist will help the client envision a desirable future, and then map out the small and large changes necessary for the client to undergo to realize their vision. The therapist will seize on any successes the client experiences, to encourage them to build on their strengths rather than dwell on their problems or limitations.
Strength Based Therapy
Strength-based therapy is a type of positive psychotherapy and counseling that focuses more on your internal strengths and resourcefulness, and less on weaknesses, failures, and shortcomings. This focus sets up a positive mindset that helps you build on you best qualities, find your strengths, improve resilience and change worldview to one that is more positive. A positive attitude, in turn, can help your expectations of yourself and others become more reasonable.
Trauma Focused
Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) helps people who may be experiencing post-traumatic stress after a traumatic event to return to a healthy state.
Know the signs
Does this sound like you?
ANXIETY & STRESS
Lately, you have been feeling overwhelmed. You find yourself avoiding social situations due to fear or panic. Your obsessing over specific thoughts or actions. You feel on edge, like there’s a tightness in your chest that just won’t go away. No matter how hard you try, you can’t seem to relax anymore. You have difficulties falling asleep and when you do, your sleep is broken. Anxiety can be different for everyone, which can cause distress that affects one’s daily life. It’s a feeling of fear or apprehension about what’s to come.
DEPRESSION
I have everything I need in life why do I feel this way?” You feel deep sadness, irritability, frustration, feel like isolating yourself, and even feel helpless and hopeless at times. You may not really know how or why you are feeling this way or may simply feel that your emotions are out of control. This, understandably, can be incredibly frustrating.
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDERS
Your lack of emotional control leads you to damage your relationships, leading people to walk away from you, which exacerbates abandonment issues. You live in a cycle of negativity. You feel you will never get better because you are surrounded by negative people with negative feelings toward you?
MILITARY SENSITIVITY
Your family members and friends play a critical role in your life, especially during difficult times. Are you and your loved one dealing with issues? Are you a service member, or family and friends having difficulties managing life’s challenges and finding solutions that improve your lives?
ENTREPRENEUR STRESS MANAGEMENT
When you started your business you would often stay up late and wake up early to plan, brainstorm, and develop new ideas. But then you began having trouble focusing because your trying to accomplish too many tasks and your work began suffering. You began to notice your sudden lack of enthusiasm, interest, and overall, a lack of quality in your work. You’ve worked so hard to get here, so the last thing you want is to lose everything.
GRIEF AND LOSS
Whenever we think of grief, we think of the sadness that accompanies the death of a loved one. In reality, grief occurs whenever we lose something important to us. While the death of a family member certainly fits the cause, it could be the loss of a relationship through a breakup or divorce or the loss of a job. Grief also encompasses the change that comes as a result of the loss. When things are no longer as comfortable and we are forced to adjust. Even good things like marriage and the arrival of children mean the end of a former way of life that was familiar.
WOMEN'S ISSUES
Whether your in your mid 20’s or late 50’s and trying to figure out life, or you are newly married and it’s not what you thought it would be. Or perhaps, you are stressed about not being married, or even in a loving relationship. Maybe you are an independent working woman who is trying to figure out how to balance it all. Or, even a woman approaching middle age and wondering if it’s too late to change your life.
SELF ESTEEM
You’re always hard on yourself. You have trouble accepting compliments and your constantly second-guessing other people’s intentions. You’re also afraid to take challenges, being worried you cannot overcome them. Or, do you have difficulty asking for what they want, saying no to requests, or making your true feelings known?
LIFE TRANSITIONS
For the majority of people, a major change is stressful and scary. Your world begins to feel unreliable. It can feel like a crisis of confidence in your abilities or, worse, in your very being and core sense of self. Even if you’ve chosen this change and are excited about it, you may also be concerned about how you will manage this new place, stage of life, relationship successfully. You may notice that your sleeping patterns have changed, your irritable or short-tempered in a new and unfamiliar way, or wishful and longing for your former situation.
TRAUMA AND PTSD
You have difficulties falling asleep. But soon as you start dozing off you get a surge of adrenaline or anxiety and wake up abruptly. And even when you do fall asleep, you wake up with night terrors or sweats. You’re not alone. There are others out there that are going through and have gone through the same types of things that you are going through now. There are people out there that understand.
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER
Your struggling with intrusive and unwanted thoughts, feelings, and physiological sensations that lead to anxiety, guilt, and distress. These unwanted internal experiences often result in repetitive, time-consuming, and painful ritualistic behaviors. They interfere with relationships, work, school, and overall quality of life.
COUPLES | FAMILY | DIVORCE
Is your relationship missing communication, respect, and compromise? Any relationship even good family’s and marriages has trying times. All relationships go through their share of ups and downs. But truly resilient relationships make it thru hard times together and become even stronger.