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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a short-term form of behavioral treatment. It helps people problem-solve. CBT also reveals the relationship between beliefs, thoughts, and feelings, and the behaviors that follow.
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Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is an evidence-based treatment for children and adolescents who have experienced traumatic events. It is designed to help them cope with the emotional, behavioral, and cognitive effects of trauma. It can also help reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), improve emotional regulation, reduce anxiety and depression, enhance coping skills, and improve relationships with parents/caregivers. TF-CBT is suitable for children and adolescents (ages 3-18) who have experienced a variety of traumatic events, including sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect, and witnessing violence.
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Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach, which incorporates positive psychology principles and practices, and which helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems.
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DBT helps clients increase their emotional and cognitive regulation by learning about the triggers that lead to reactive states and by helping to assess which coping skills to apply in the sequence of events, thoughts, feelings and behaviors to help avoid undesired reactions. DBT uses mindfulness, acceptance and change, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness to help clients meet treatment goals and reach the ultimate goal of achieving a “life worth living.”
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CCPT is a developmentally responsive, play-based mental health intervention for young children ages 3 to 11 who are experiencing social, emotional, behavioral and relational disorders. CCPT utilizes play, the natural language of children, and therapeutic relationship to provide a safe, consistent therapeutic environment in which a child can experience full acceptance, empathy, and understanding from the counselor and process inner experiences and feelings through play and symbols. In CCPT, a child’s experience within the counseling relationship is the factor that is most healing and meaningful in creating lasting, positive change
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Christian counseling is effective for spiritual enrichment, strengthening one’s relationship with God, and overcoming or managing mental health issues like depression. It also helps individuals in enhancing positive traits and feeling a sense of purpose in life.
Treatment Approaches & Specialties
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Children 3-10
Play therapy for children can lead to various positive outcomes, depending on the child's needs, the therapist's approach, and the goals of the therapy. Here are some common outcomes:
Emotional Regulation, Anxiety reduction, Improved Communication Skills, Enhanced Self-Esteem, Problem-Solving Skills, Positive Behavioral Changes, Increased Empathy and Understanding, Trauma Resolution: Reducing the impact of trauma, and Strengthened Parent-Child Relationships
Overall, play therapy can have profound and long-lasting effects on children's emotional, social, and psychological well-being, promoting resilience and healthy development.
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Adolescents 11-18
Counseling can be extremely beneficial for teens by helping them cope with difficult life issues. Reseach shows that regular counseling appointments can improve outcomes with self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and even academic achievement among adolescents.
Studies have also found that parental encouragement was a key factor for teens entering the counselling process with helpful results. Giving your teen the “emotional space” to open up and talk with a trusted therapist can produce positive and lasting results with their overall mental health and wellbeing.
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Adult Individuals
Individual therapy gives you a safe space to explore your thoughts, feelings, and concerns.
Being in therapy can also:
help improve communication skills, help you feel empowered, empower you to develop fresh insights about your life, learn how to make healthier choices, and develop coping strategies to manage distress.
If you have experienced trauma, therapy can help with:
Eliminating or reducing triggers and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), improving close relationships and connections with people, learning coping skills to handle distorted or negative thoughts and feelings, reducing anger, frustration, and irritability, and increasing peace of mind, reframing the traumatic experience and making some sense of it.
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Couples & Families
Do you think couples therapy is only for people having problems? Think again!
Marriage and family therapists are the first to say that couples therapy is an effective way to keep a relationship on track before it goes off the rails. But if the strains are real and communicating is almost impossible, going to therapy allows couples to meet with a neutral party and reach goals such as resolving conflicts, restoring lost trust, restoring intimacy, and forming a stronger bond.
In Family Therapy, the focus is on the set of relationships that make up the family unit. Families often improve communication skills, learn how to better support one another, and experience collaboration with one another in a calm, safe, and supportive setting.
ADHD
Adjustment Disorder
Adoption
Anxiety
Behavioral Issues
Bipolar Disorder
Blended family struggles
Bullying
Codependency
Co-parenting
Coping Skills
Depression
Divorce
Family Conflict
Foster Care
Grief
Impulse Control Disorders
Infidelity
Marital and Premarital
Narcissistic Personality
Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
Parenting Struggles
Peer Relationships
PTSD
School Issues
Self-Esteem Issues
Self-Harm
Spirituality
Stress
Suicidal Ideation
Teen Identity Struggles
Trauma