Individual Counseling and Psychotherapy

Counseling and therapy are helpful for many situations related to psychological, emotional, relationship, parenting, family and employment problems. You will get more out of therapy if you are informed and take an active role in finding and selecting your counselor or psychotherapist. Many problems may need only a few sessions while others can require several months of psychotherapy to produce lasting benefit. Psychotherapy is self-limiting for most difficulties; however, many people continue therapy or counseling for personal growth, relapse prevention and for support for more than a year. Your right to confidentiality is protected under State law. There are a few legal and ethical situations in which confidentiality is not absolute. We can provide you with our policies regarding these situations. <--top>

Counseling for Marriages and Couples

Marriage counseling or couples therapy helps people improve their relationships and resolve conflicts. Relationship counseling gives couples the tools to communicate better, negotiate differences, problem solve and even argue in a healthier way. Marriage counseling is provided by our licensed marriage and family therapists. Our therapists provide the same mental health services as other therapists, but with one major difference — we focus primarily on a couple's relationship. Marriage counseling is often short term. You may need only a few sessions to help you resolve a crisis. Or you may need marriage counseling for several months, particularly if your relationship has deteriorated greatly. As with individual psychotherapy, you typically see a marriage counselor once a week. <--top>

Family Counseling and Family Therapy

Family counseling, also referred to as couple and family therapy, is a branch of psychotherapy that works with families and couples in intimate relationships to help nurture change and development. This counseling is used to assist change in terms of the interaction between family members since family relationships are an important factor in psychological health. Regardless of the origin of the problem, involving families in solutions is often beneficial, and family therapy or counseling has been used effectively in the full range of human dilemmas; there is no category of relationship or psychological problem that has not been addressed with this approach. <--top>

Adoption Counseling

Adoption is an event that has a life-long effect on everyone involved. Adoption brings unique rewards as well as challenges to families, and sometimes families will need or want professional help as concerns or problems arise. Our professional staff is always ready to help out with adoption issues and can often help prevent issues common to adoption from becoming more serious problems that might be more difficult to resolve. The duration of therapy will vary depending on the kinds of problems being addressed. Some families build a relationship with a therapist over years while other families might find they need a therapist's help only once or twice. Sometimes a difficulty a child is experiencing is obviously connected to adoption, but sometimes the connection is not readily apparent. On the other hand, issues that seem to be related to adoption, after investigation, turn out not to be related to adoption at all. Our therapists with adoption knowledge and experience are best suited to help families identify connections between problems and adoption and to plan effective treatment strategies. <--top>

ADHD Assessment

We conduct ADHD assessments for children, adolescents, college students and adults by utilizing a comprehensive approach to review current and past symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Our assessment must first involves testing for other psychological disorders which may mimic ADHD or require further adjunctive treatment as well as look for any processing or learning disorders to rule out co-existing conditions in order to ensure proper diagnosis. Evaluations typically include some assessment of motor and executive functions. <--top>

Addiction to Drugs or Alcohol

Whether it is drug addiction or alcohol dependence, addiction involves compulsively seeking to use a substance, regardless of the potentially negative social, psychological and physical consequences. Certain drugs are more likely to cause physical dependence than others. Breaking a drug addiction is difficult, but not impossible. Our outpatient drug addiction and alcohol treatment therapy may help you beat your dependence. <--top>