Grief Therapy
Grief Therapy addresses past and present-day loss through a series of specific steps designed to plan and pace the grief journey. These steps will guide you and help you to recover and reconcile your grief issues fully and completely while encouraging you to grieve your loss in ways that are meaningful to you.
Anxiety
Therapy addresses the continuum of mild, moderate, and severe Anxiety Disorders such as General Anxiety, Panic Attacks, PTSD, and Dissociative Disorders. Early stages of therapy provides education about anxiety while teaching essential skills needed to master anxiety. Skill practice and application is encouraged daily. A commitment to therapy increases the likelihood of greater control over symptoms and freedom from anxiety can be achieved.
Children often progress through therapy. master skills and resolve anxiety more quickly than adults. This is because children have a shorter history of stress, a briefer history of anxiety and have had less time to build up a resistant to therapy. Art therapy can be a fun effective way for kids to address and overcome anxiety.
Children often progress through therapy. master skills and resolve anxiety more quickly than adults. This is because children have a shorter history of stress, a briefer history of anxiety and have had less time to build up a resistant to therapy. Art therapy can be a fun effective way for kids to address and overcome anxiety.
Depression
Depression is a serious medical condition that makes it difficult to cope with day-to-day life. Symptoms of Depression are prolonged feelings of sadness, low energy, diminished interest, low productivity at work or school, increased isolation, feeling unable to feel joy, feeling helpless and powerless. Depressed individuals have difficulty coping with daily demands, experience poor appetite, and sleeping difficulties. It is common to experience a greater frequencies of illness and accidents. Moodiness is common with a rapid switching of emotions from numb to irritability and anger for small or no apparent reason .
Depression can last for weeks, months, or years, while taking its toll on both the Depressed individual and family members, friends and coworkers. Depression can be treated with a combination of medication, therapy, education, and skills training. Faith-based therapy and Art Therapy can be especially helpful in the treatment of Depression while family and friends provide the essential support needed to help their loved one through the healing process.
Depression can last for weeks, months, or years, while taking its toll on both the Depressed individual and family members, friends and coworkers. Depression can be treated with a combination of medication, therapy, education, and skills training. Faith-based therapy and Art Therapy can be especially helpful in the treatment of Depression while family and friends provide the essential support needed to help their loved one through the healing process.
Anger Control
Therapy addresses mild, moderate, or severe Anger that ranges from irritation, frustration, being argumentative, moody, to explosive rage. Anger can build slowly under the surface and be quickly triggered 'out of the blue' resulting in destructive outcomes in relationships and property. Anger can result in problems at home, school, work, in the community, and socially. Family, friends and others often feel helpless to assist the angry individual who rejects and pushes away the very people who try to help them the most.
Anger is at the heart of every therapy issue; it is the granddaddy of emotions: if you can master your anger, you can master any emotion. Anger is also braided with anxiety and depression; where there is one, the others are sure to follow. Understanding how these emotions are related, and each feelings gift, purpose and direction will enable you to navigate each emotion efficiently and skillfully.
Anger is at the heart of every therapy issue; it is the granddaddy of emotions: if you can master your anger, you can master any emotion. Anger is also braided with anxiety and depression; where there is one, the others are sure to follow. Understanding how these emotions are related, and each feelings gift, purpose and direction will enable you to navigate each emotion efficiently and skillfully.
Child-parent Relationships
The child-parent relationship is the most valued of all relationships. Relationships with your child can become stressed due to a loss, divorce, medical diagnosis, visitation, growing up, friends, social or school difficulties. Stress can manifest as regression; acting younger than their age, clingy behaviors, sleep disturbances, fearfulness, separation anxiety, avoidance, and depression. Stress can manifest as aggression; acting older than their years, arguing, easily agitated, opposition, defiance, anger, depression and isolation.
Therapy will help you to identify the root cause of stress, the emotions associated to the stress and your child's resulting behavior. I will partner with the parent to help you and your child problem solve stress, address problematic behaviors, and express feeling in age appropriate ways.
A Book About Me is an effective tool for children to explore therapy issues. Available on Amazon.
Therapy will help you to identify the root cause of stress, the emotions associated to the stress and your child's resulting behavior. I will partner with the parent to help you and your child problem solve stress, address problematic behaviors, and express feeling in age appropriate ways.
A Book About Me is an effective tool for children to explore therapy issues. Available on Amazon.
Divorce
With nearly half of all marriages ending in divorce, it is no wonder that divorce is one of the primary reasons why children and adults present in therapy. Therapy can provide a safe place for you and your child to express divorce issues. Therapy will provide you with information about divorce and parenting skills you need to meet the needs of your child throughout the divorce process and afterwards through the visitation transition and beyond.
Therapy solutions can be addressed in individual or family therapy.
Therapy solutions can be addressed in individual or family therapy.
Faith-Based Therapy
A Faith-based therapy experience is available upon request. With permission, Bible-based truths will be presented when relevant to therapy issues. Respectfully, Faith-Based issues can address prayer, meditation, character qualities, relationships, spiritual vulnerabilities, strengths and gifts. Forgiveness is an essential faith based tasks to put the finishing touch on your therapy work.
During life's losses, it is human to question faith. Enduring sorrow and trauma a crisis of faith. A Faith-based therapy experience will provide you with a safe environment to explore issues, contemplate questions and reconcile crisis of faith .
During life's losses, it is human to question faith. Enduring sorrow and trauma a crisis of faith. A Faith-based therapy experience will provide you with a safe environment to explore issues, contemplate questions and reconcile crisis of faith .
