Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
Christian Counseling
Christian counseling works by recognizing the close connection between a person’s emotional or psychological well-being and their faith. It allows clients to bring their whole selves into therapy in order to develop coping strategies that align with their personal beliefs. Christian counseling draws upon the principles of Christianity to help individuals navigate mental health conditions like depression and anxiety, relationship problems, grief, or anger. It is important to note that not all Christian counselors are licensed therapists. While some integrate evidence-based psychological principles into their practice, others may not.
Clinical Supervision Services
Board certified for professionals needing supervised hours for licensure.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive-behavioral therapy stresses the role of thinking in how we feel and what we do. It is based on the belief that thoughts, rather than people or events, cause our negative feelings. The therapist assists the client in identifying, testing the reality of, and correcting dysfunctional beliefs underlying his or her thinking. The therapist then helps the client modify those thoughts and the behaviors that flow from them. CBT is a structured collaboration between therapist and client and often calls for homework assignments. CBT has been clinically proven to help clients in a relatively short amount of time with a wide range of disorders, including depression and anxiety.
Compassion Focused
Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) may assist individuals who struggle with mood disorders, anxiety, or feelings of shame and self-criticism, often stemming from early experiences of abuse or neglect. Through exercises like role-playing, visualization, meditation, and activities that promote gratitude for everyday life, CFT teaches clients about the mind-body connection and guides them in practicing awareness of their thoughts and bodily sensations. This helps clients cultivate self-compassion and compassion for others, which can help regulate their emotions and foster a sense of safety, self-acceptance, and comfort.
Couples Counseling-Emotional Needs Assessment Therapy
By reviewing each partner’s level of need for emotional needs in the areas of physical, mental and emotional well-being as it pertains to financial and domestic support, as well as desire for both physical intimacy and desire for verbal affection. This review would also that include discussing the need for admiration/value/respect. The therapist acts as a facilitator and “coach” guiding the couple in focusing and processing how through both expressing their own needs and listening and to the expression of their partner’s needs can rekindle and restore areas that need to be built back up or to even begin anew as would be necessary.
Culturally Sensitive
Culturally sensitive therapists provide therapy that is culturally sensitive. They understand that people from different backgrounds have different values, practices, and beliefs, and are sensitive to those differences when working with individuals and families in therapy.
Grief-Share Therapy
Grief refers to the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connected to the loss of something important. It could be the loss of a relationship, a loved one, a job, an object, or anything else a person values. If the loss is related to the death of a loved one it is considered bereavement, which specifically to the period of mourning after the death of a loved one.
Just as people experience grieving in different manners, there are also multiple ways to process our grief. Grief therapy techniques offer varying approaches to dealing with loss. The type of therapy or technique that works best for anyone can greatly depend on several factors — like whether or not they’re dealing with prolonged grief (where you’re in a state of constant, chronic grief that you can’t get out of). When one feels “stuck”, the treatment will vary and can include processing emotions such as “unforgiveness, survivor guilt and/or severe feelings of disappointment or resentment (to oneself or to others).
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Trauma is a deeply distressing experience that can have long-lasting effects on an individual’s mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Whether it stems from childhood abuse, combat exposure, or a natural disaster, trauma can leave individuals feeling overwhelmed, trapped, and disconnected from the world around them. Fortunately, advancements in mental health care have led to the development of trauma-focused treatment approaches that offer hope and healing.