Services

A type of counseling where the counselor treats the client on a one-to-one basis.

A type of counseling where a counselor helps two people involved in a romantic relationship gain insight into their relationship, resolve conflict, and improve relationship satisfaction.

An active, directive, structured, time limited approach that is based on the theory that an individual’s thoughts affect and are effected by their mood and behavior. Cognitive behavioral techniques identify, reality test, and correct thoughts, behaviors, and beliefs that do not positively serve clients.

A type of cognitive behavioral counseling that focuses on repairing and restructuring the damage done by traumatic events by identifying, disputing, and challenging negative thoughts and interpretations, gaining healthier perspectives about traumatic events, and coping with future traumatic events.

A type of counseling that focuses on body awareness and allows clients to unwind the stories they hold in their bodies to access additional pathways for healing by cultivating reflective awareness of and reconnecting to sensations in the present moment.

A type of counseling that offers skills and strategies to assist in understanding, coping with and processing emotions/memories tied to traumatic experiences.

A type of counseling that helps people who have experienced loss or are experiencing loss find meaning in and effectively mourning their loss(es).

A type of somatic activity and mindful reflection that helps people who have experienced or are experiencing loss process the loss and move the pain through the body and mind.

A technique that utilizes the body’s inner healer and wisdom to resolve grief and trauma based issues involving a deceased individual. This is not a séance, but a process supported by empirical data.

An approach that involves cognitive behavioral techniques, meditation, and present oriented, non judgmental acceptance.

Meditative approaches that use cognitive and relaxation techniques to address and overcome stressful thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that undermine health.

A holistic approach that addresses mental, physical, social, emotional, creative, and intellectual needs while emphasizing the role of a healthy spirit. Transpersonal counseling utilizes meditation, guided visualization, hypnotherapy, dream work, art, journaling, mindfulness, and other meaning making techniques.

A short term approach that focuses on helping clients identify and amplify their strengths and resources so they can find solutions to presenting problems.

Techniques that identify and address multiple sub personalities and families within each person’s mental system. It focuses on healing wounded parts and restoring mental balance.

Techniques that look at the connection between early attachment experiences with primary caretakers and the ability to develop/form healthy relationships. These aim to build/rebuild a trusting, supportive relationship that can be used as a springboard for future relationships.

Approaches that combine different tools to fit the needs of individual clients.

Adaptive Information Processing, Ego State Interventions, and Resource Installaton. Techniques like EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), DNMS (Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy). These are evidenced based methods designed to resolve unprocessed traumatic memories and help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences like PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorders.

Assists in achieving better work/life balance, eliminating long held fears and anxieties, enhancing creativity, improving communication skills, setting and meeting personal goals, and strengthening relationships with friends and family.

Assists in exploring deeper connections between people and the universe, guides in unleashing self trust and compassion, helps clarify purpose and core desire.

Promotes conscious, deliberate decisions that release feelings of resentment or vengeance in order to achieve inner peace, happiness, and freedom from limitation/pain.

Assists in establishing sustainable habits and lifestyle changes that optimize physical and emotional health and wellness.

Provides grounding in the present “now” through practices that maintain a moment by moment awareness of thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environments. These mindful exercises and meditations can reduce stress and decrease unpleasant thoughts and emotions.

Assists in establishing greater fulfillment in personal relationships through goal setting, conflict resolution skills, and tools that deepen intimacy and pleasure.

Provides and cultivates deeper bodily trust and connection. This can be especially helpful for those who struggle with feeling pleasure, letting go, and connecting to their own voice and intuition.

Legal ceremonies not ritually blessed by an Eastern Orthodox or Roman Catholic Priest in which two people are united in marriage. Marriage provides state and federal protections. These can include inheritance rights, bereavement leave, federal and non federal employment benefits, next of kin designations, joint/community property ownership, joint state and federal tax filings, joint parental rights, rights not to testify against each other, rights to each other’s social security and medicaid benefits, family based immigration petitions, and rights to seek financial support or alimony in the case of dissolution.

Public commitment ceremonies of marriage like arrangements in which 2 people are provided legal protections at the state level. These can include inheritance rights, bereavement leave, non federal employment benefits, next of kin designations, joint/community ownership of property, joint state tax filings, joint parental rights, rights not to testify against each other, and rights to seek financial support or alimony in the case of dissolution.

Ceremonies that reaffirm a commitment and commemorate a love that has deepened or matured between a couple.

Ceremonies in which individuals publically affirm beginnings, unveilings, memories, commitments and/or promises.

A ceremony or event that marks an important stage in someone’s life like a pregnancy, birth, graduation, confirmation, retirement, death, etc.

Individually tailored and customized ceremonies and celebrations.