scope of Services offered
Below are a list of issues that we cover.
Anger Management
Helps the Individual understand the emotional dynamics of anger, observe negative and distorted thinking and identify anger triggers.
Anxiety
A mental health disorder is characterized by feelings of worry, anxiety, or fear that are strong enough to intervene with one’s daily activities
· Excessive Worry
· Intrusive thoughts
· Fatigue
Child or Adolescent
Every child and adolescent responds differently to life changes. Some events that may impact a child or teens mental health include: Being bullied, parents divorced or separated, domestic violence, sibling rivalry, anxiety, depression, poor self-esteem, and behavioral conditions. Also Teen substance abuse, and relationship problems.
Coping Skills
The method a person uses to deal with a stressful situation, these may help a person face a situation, take action, and be flexible and persistent, and solving problems. Coping is conscious or unconscious strategies used to reduce unpleasant emotions.
Depression
Most of us feel sad, lonely, and depressed at times. It’s a normal reaction to loss, life’s struggles or injured self- esteem. But when these feelings become overwhelming, cause physical symptoms, and last for long periods of time, they can keep you from leading a normal active life. Talking to a therapist may prove beneficial.
Family Conflict
The seventh most frequent areas of family conflict are. Money, family business, conflict over family events, in-law related conflict, sibling conflict over care of elderly parent, stepparent and stepchild conflict, divorced parents conflict over care and discipline of children.
Grief and Loss
Grief is a natural response to loss, it might be lost of a loved one, relationship, pregnancy, or job. Common grief reactions include difficult feelings, thoughts, physical sensations, and behaviors. They may include shock, numbness, sadness, denial, despair, anxiety, anger, loneliness, depression, helplessness, relief, and yearning.
Women’s Issues
May include violence against women and girls, sexual harassment, marital problems, favoritism and the lack of promotion at work. Parenting issues and postpartum depression.
Men's Issues
Anxiety, Depression, Domestic Violence, Parenting, Marital Discord, Midlife Crisis and Stressors from work.
PTSD
A disorder in which a person has difficulty recovering after witnessing or experiencing a terrifying event. The condition may last months or years with triggers that can bring back memories of the trauma accompanied by intense emotional and physical reactions. Symptoms may include nightmares or unwanted memories, avoidance of situations that bring back memories of the trauma anxiety or depressed mood. These symptoms cause clinically important distress or impaired work, social or personal functioning, insomnia or anger outbursts.
Mood Disorders
A mood disorder is a pattern of illness due to an abnormal mood. Nearly every client who has a mood disorder experiences depression at some time. Most mood disorder clients will have one or more of these four types of episodes.
· Major Depression Episode. For at least two weeks, the patient feels depressed(or cannot enjoy life) and has problems with eating and sleeping, guilt feelings, loss of energy, trouble concentrating, and thoughts about death
· Maniac Episode. For at least one week, the client feels elated or sometimes only irritable and maybe grandiose, talkative, hyperactive, and distractible. Bad judgment leads to marked social or work impairment.
· Mixed Episode. In this case, the client has fulfilled the symptomatic criteria for both Maniac and a Major Depressive Episode, but it has lasted as briefly as a week.
· Hypomanic Episode. This is much like a Maniac Episode, but is briefer and is less severe.
Relationship Issues
Comprise of arguments, communication, growing apart, infidelity, traumas, appreciation, sex, and money.
Self Esteem
Your overall opinion or yourself- how you feel about your abilities and limitations. When you have low-self-esteem you put little value on your opinions and ideas. There are three (3) types of self-esteem. They are inflated self-esteem, low self-esteem, and high self-esteem.
Treatment and Approach
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Solution Focused Behavioral Therapy (SFBT)
Solution Focused Behavioral Therapy (SFBT)
Cognitive behavioral therapy is used to treat a wide range of issues. It's often the preferred type of psychotherapy because it can quickly help you identify and cope with specific challenges. It generally requires fewer sessions than other types of therapy and is done in a structured way.
Solution Focused Behavioral Therapy (SFBT)
Solution Focused Behavioral Therapy (SFBT)
Solution Focused Behavioral Therapy (SFBT)
Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) is a form of psychotherapy or counseling. It is also referred to as Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. This form of therapy focuses on solutions to problems or issues, and discovering the resources and strengths a person has, rather than focusing on the problem like more traditional talking therapies do.
Trauma-Focused
Solution Focused Behavioral Therapy (SFBT)
Dialectical (DBT)
Trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy is an evidence-based psychotherapy or counselling that aims at addressing the needs of children and adolescents with post traumatic stress disorder and other difficulties related to traumatic life events.
Dialectical (DBT)
Dialectical (DBT)
Dialectical (DBT)
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a cognitive behavioral treatment that was originally developed to treat chronically suicidal individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and it is now recognized as the gold standard psychological treatment for this population.
Cultural Specific
Dialectical (DBT)
Cultural Specific
Culturally sensitive therapy emphasizes the therapist's understanding of a client’s background, ethnicity, and belief system. Therapists can incorporate cultural sensitivity into their work to accommodate and respect differences in opinions, values, and attitudes of various cultures and different types of people.
Dialectical (DBT)
Cultural Specific
MODALITY
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Couples
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Families
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