Counseling/Coaching
Quite often, individuals (children, teens, adults), couples, and families come to us looking for support and guidance in regards to some challenging aspect of their life. These clients are not struggling with serious mental health issues and, therefore, don’t require intensive therapeutic intervention. Instead, they need guidance, strategies, skills, or even advice about how to approach a certain problem situation or specialized circumstance. For these clients, we offer interventions such as Life Transition Counseling, Marital and Pre-Marital Counseling, Parent Coaching, AD/HD Coaching, Executive (Occupational) Coaching, and Sports Performance Coaching with both in-office and telehealth service delivery options.
Psychotherapy
Some individuals (children, teens, adults), couples, and families who seek our assistance need more than counseling or coaching, oftentimes due to multi-generational family histories of mental health problems and/or personal histories including severe life stressors or trauma. These clients are often struggling with challenges related to problems with mood (e.g., depression, bi-polar disorder), anxiety, or post-traumatic stress and, therefore, need more intensive levels of support, including evidenced-based therapies such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or Family Therapy to achieve the relief they seek. Others who come to us for help are facing severe challenges, such as having a family member (most often a child, teen, or young adult) with a developmental disability in the areas of academic, social, emotional, or behavioral functioning (e.g., Attention-Deficit Disorder or Autism Spectrum Disorder) where effective treatment requires a combination of numerous therapeutic interventions designed to impact the functioning of the individual, the family, and the school environment. For these clients, we offer a variety of pschotherapeutic approaches with both in-office and telehealth service delivery options.
Psychological Assessment
It is often helpful when working with a particular individual (child, teen, adult) in either counseling/coaching or psychotherapy to assess their intellectual, academic, social, emotional, and/or behavioral functioning in order to identify their areas of strength and weakness and to achieve diagnostic clarity. Whether wanting to know if a child, adolescent, or adult has an Attention-Deficit Disorder, an Autism Spectrum Disorder, a specific learning disability, depression, or anxiety, standardized psychological testing can often be quite useful. This type of assessment involves comparing the individual’s thoughts, behaviors, emotions, and skills to those of others within his/her age group in order to identify strengths and weaknesses and to determine the existence of certain types of psychological difficulties. Once these areas of concern and their severity are outlined, this assessment information can be utilized in developing specific recommendations for further intervention. Pediatricians, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists often refer their clients to us for psychodiagnostic assessment. And parents often utilize these assessment services as an alternative to having their children or adolescents tested through their local school district.
Psychoeducation
Some individuals can benefit from psychological education (psychoeducation) interventions designed to teach them practical skills for managing the challenges they face in their lives. Parents, for example, can often improve their skills for influencing their children or teens, increasing those behaviors they want to see more and decreasing those behaviors they want to see less, through Parent Education and Training. Children, adolescents, and adults with poor time-management, organizational, or prioritizing skills (such as individuals with AD/HD) can often benefit from education and training in the skills associated with Executive Functioning. Children and teens with poor social skills can learn to be more effective in the social arena by involvement in Social Skills Education and Training. And individuals who have difficulty with being either too passive or too aggressive in their relationships with others at home, at school, or at work, can learn to be more respectful of themselves and others through Assertiveness Education and Training. Whether delivered individually or in groups, in-office or through telehealth, these types of psychoeducational approaches can provide much needed support, education, and training designed to empower individuals in their attempts to reach their goals. In addition, schools, churches, corporations, and other organizations contact us to make on-site psychoeducational presentations on topics related to parenting, family life, and work-related issues.
Psychological Consultation & Collaboration
Especially when attempting to help children and adolescents, it is often essential to consult and collaborate with parents, teachers, school administrators, and other professionals who are also working to help them. Consulting involves sharing psychological testing data, information about family dynamics, diagnostic information, treatment interventions and progress, and recommendations for further intervention at home, at school, and in the community. Collaboration involves working together with parents, teachers, school administrators, law enforcement, and other professionals in order to develop team-oriented problem-solving strategies designed to help struggling children and teenagers reach their goals. We provide psychological consultation and collaboration services utilizing in-office, telehealth, and school site/work site service delivery options.
