Marital Therapy
Designed to help couples improve their relationship.
Marital therapy addresses communication, sexual, and economic concerns in addition to other family problems.
Offering a wide-variety of counseling services, our counselors are experienced in the following: (click on an item for more information)
Individual Therapy
The process of changing behavior or emotional response to improve psychological well-being.
Typical goals of therapy are to reduce anxiety, depression, panic attacks and control undesirable emotional and behavioral patterns.
Designed as an avenue to meet the needs of a person faced with unusually difficult life situations.
Family Therapy
The approach the therapist takes is to focus on the whole system of the family.
Individual interpersonal and communication patterns are designed to clarify and explore reciprocal obligations. This will encourage and create acceptable behavior among family members.
Communication among family members is a key objective.
Behavior Family Therapy
Helping families achieve specific goals through learning to define their problem clearly and developing problem-solving behaviors to which all agree.
Homework assignments quantifying specific actions and maintaining certain communication activities are frequently part of this form of intervention.
Behavior Therapy
The process of altering undesired behavior such as anxiety, fears and depression into successful desired behavior using techniques based on direct observation or experience.
Group Therapy
A form of therapy that treats individuals simultaneously for emotional / substance abuse disorders by emphasizing interactions with peers within the group.
This form of therapy helps individuals to resolve problems through education and positive experiences.
Play Therapy
A form of therapy used to facilitate communication in children. Play therapy is a way of working with children who are too young to use standard "talk therapy". The child uses toys to act out conflicts or to demonstrate situations that cannot be verbalized.
The therapist may play board games, card games, use drawings, puppets or stuffed animals to help children learn to express their feelings through language and play while reducing acting-out behaviors.
Play therapy is most commonly used in work with children but is also effective and useful with adults in certain circumstances.
Mediation
Mediation is a way for divorcing couples to reach an agreement about their finances and their children without suing each other in court.
A neutral person, called a mediator, meets with the couple over the course of several sessions and helps them figure out what will work for their family. The mediator writes up a "memorandum of understanding" which will ultimately become the basis of a divorce agreement.
Mediation is not therapy, although it can be very therapeutic for couples to end their relationship through cooperation instead of litigation.
Divorce Counseling
A therapy designed to help married couples make the transition to divorce.
It is particularly helpful for couples with children. The therapist can provide the parents with skills, knowledge and strategies that will minimize the negative impact on the children and shore up the parent-child relationship.
Divorce counseling will teach parents how to communicate with each other in a civil manner, manage conflict with each other, and protect the children from developing loyalty conflicts.
