Gone are the days when people thought counseling sessions consisted of painfully long and boring moments involving a couch and repressed childhood memories!
Individual therapy is a way for you to get extra support when you need it. If you are struggling with a personal crisis, overwhelming emotion, a life transition, problems with friends or family members, career questions, or the need to move on from past events, counseling can help.
A counseling relationship is unique. You are the professional concerning your life and we respect that throughout the therapeutic process. We are able to help guide you through the self-exploration necessary to discover new thoughts and feelings for the purpose of healing. Individual counseling is a way to take complex problems and break them down into workable parts. This can make it safer and easier to achieve the changes you want.
We work with adolescents and adults who have a range of concerns: life transition issues, anxiety, anger management, depression, self-esteem, body image concerns, LGBTQ issues, stress, and substance use.
Couples counseling, couples therapy, and marriage counseling are for romantic and non-romantic partners who find they are in a negative pattern they cannot change. Counseling gives you a safe space to explore difficult and complex topics within your personal or professional relationship.
Couples counseling can be helpful to establish a new way of communicating that includes talking and listening empathically. It can help you identify and attend to your partner’s needs:
Our couples therapy and marriage counseling services are open to LGBTQ+ couples, straight couples, and polyamorous relationships.
Romantic couples seek counseling for a number of reasons: constant fighting, lack of enjoyment with your partner, feelings of anger or jealousy, parenting problems, lack of intimacy, extended family conflicts, infidelity, and differences in lifestyle. Ignoring these problems will intensify them and cause more distance in your relationship.
Couples counseling is helpful for non-romantic parties, such as business partners, dance partners, writing partners, family members, or anyone in a close relationship that could use some help.
Professional partners seek counseling for various difficulties, such as: unhealthy conflict, poor communication patterns, failure to collaborate effectively, inability to compromise, and difficulty aligning on strategy or tactics. Counseling is a way to address these problems, create a strategy to limit them in the future, and help you work more effectively toward your common goals.
• A licensed professional or certified coach with years of experience specializing in working with individuals and couples
• A warm listener combined with honest and direct feedback
• Couples: We will call you both out and fight for not one of you but for your relationship
•An expert in communications that will be listening, observing, and teaching you how to effectively communicate beyond the basics.
• We will keep you focused on the present and future where you possess 100 percent control over what CAN be done
• A silent note taker or an over-talking therapist. We are all about BALANCE
• A ton of homework papers and work sheets
• Digging up every detail of your past that is irrelevant
• JUDGMENT (We’ve probably already heard it all at this point!)
Coaching leads to achieving optimal performance in your personal and professional life. We work with athletes, musicians, actors, industry leaders, and anyone looking to remove obstacles from their path toward success.
Success is often hindered by anxiety. It can stop you in your tracks: stage fright, second-guessing, comparing yourself to others, over-analyzing, procrastination, doubt.
As your coach, we work to educate you about the stress response, teach techniques that make sense to your specific situation, and create a strategy to implement a new baseline for emotional regulation. This results in sustainable attitude and behavior changes.
The goal of this work is to put you in CONTROL. You will learn the mental and emotional skills necessary to set you apart from your peers.
People who benefit from working with a coach include:
Our clients have lofty goals and it is a pleasure to watch them achieve each one. We are a team in this process. Communication is key. Your feedback is welcomed and necessary throughout the process.
Therapists have advanced training in understanding how and why people think and act the way they do. We can efficiently identify issues standing in the way of you achieving your goals. We also have the skills to address these in an effective manner. We will teach you to understand yourself and those around you.
Coaching and counseling both aim to help people, but they do have differences. Coaching focuses on specific goals for current problems. Our role as your coach is to hold you accountable, motivate you, and introduce structure and skills into your life. Coaching addresses a wide range of issues that can hold you back from your top performance in your personal and professional life.
Counseling has less pressure to achieve time-specific goals and allows for a journey into your life: past, present, and future. Our role as counselors is to reflect and guide you in self-discovery. Counseling addresses deeper emotional issues, links them to current thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, and it allows for healing through exploration.