individual therapy

The general goal of individual therapy is to help heal, process, or integrate parts of your story in order to have a more healthy relationship between your body, mind, and heart. In initial consult or clinical interview, you will be assessing whether the clinician is the right fit for you, and will begin to build specific goals that match your presenting concerns. The confidentiality of a counseling relationship can allow you to speak about things that you have never talked about before, and understand parts of your story in new ways.

Common topics in individual therapy are family of origin, coping skills, deeply held beliefs, emotions, and needs. Issues that often bring people into counseling may involve processing trauma, discussing family history and relationships, examining spiritual deconstruction, naming hopes for life and relationships, or building skills to cope with mood and personality disorders.  A broad variety of issues can bring folks into individual therapy, so please give us a call if you have any questions as to whether we will be a good fit for your need.

group therapy

Men’s process group is a wonderful setting in which to build healthy emotional awareness and skills in real time. Clients find strength in support as they risk vulnerability with others in a structured and confidential setting, and discover that they are not alone in their struggles or successes. Process group is limited to around 8 men so that each participant may have an opportunity to engage fully. Members set goals for the term of group (4 months), and use group time to process emotions and encourage one another toward meeting those goals.

We love group, and it is a wildly efficient and exciting form of therapy that yields a myriad of benefits. We would love to discuss group and answer any questions you may have about how it works or what to expect.

couples therapy

Marriage and parenting are some of the hardest things we do as people. The goal of couples’ therapy is to help each person in a partnership turn toward one another where once they turned away. This can be through talking about topics in a new way or for the first time, repairing injuries that have plagued the relationship, or working to see one another clearly for the first time. The symptoms that often bring a couple in to therapy are significant, but we aim to work on the issues underneath that feed them. The therapist is present to help the couple retire old patterns in relationship (unhealthy cycles) and faithfully stick with new ones. Couples’ therapy is often intimidating for one or the other partner, but both spouses have work to do.

Relationship therapy may involve premarital or engagement work, repair for betrayal trauma or breaches of trust, building communication skills and tools, striving to build emotional intimacy, processing grief and adjustment to loss, establishing structure for separation or divorce, learning to coparent together, or healing and making sense of a relationship that has just ended.

family therapy

Family therapy is similar to group therapy in that it is powerful and efficient; families come in to work on challenges that have caused them pain. The therapist does not identify a ‘problem individual’ within the family, but rather helps the family see the system as a whole and what each individual can do to move toward greater health and connection. No family readily embraces change - especially change that improves health. Changes mean being open to new ways of relating, and the job of the therapist is to present options for that change and encourage members toward adopting the change process. Family therapy is usually time-limited, as it is difficult to align schedules across several individuals, but is a wonderful tool for growth.

Supervision

In our field as counselors and therapists, we are required to be supervised by an experienced clinician while we are completing graduate school and for a number of years between graduation and licensure. Our goal is to provide supervision that prepares counselors for their work and maintaining the relationships with clients and other clinicians, meanwhile emphasizing therapy that is ethically sound and clinically exemplary.

We provide supervision in both group and individual/dyadic formats as a part of the normal training regimen for clinicians, both for LMFT and LMHC (formerly LPC-MHSP) licenses.  If you are looking for supervision, please note that in your inquiry.