Individual Counseling
Anxiety and Depression Support
Depression and anxiety are some of the most common mental health challenges we face, often coming packaged together. Sometimes there are events or “reasons” we might struggle with overwhelming feelings, but unfortunately the reasons are not always obvious. Professional support can help you understand how anxiety and depression function, what coping strategies are helpful, and what might be exacerbating your symptoms.
Changing Behavior
Coaching and goal-setting are an important part of gaining traction against depression. What sounds simple is incredibly difficult during depression. Behavioral activation is small, simple and direct actions to create change within depression.
- See improved mood and energy
- Find motivation
- Reduce isolation
- Increase self-compassion and confidence
- Behavioral goals are tangible and achievable
- Change should be sustainable over time
- Skills should be personalized and become intuitive
Knowing something can be better is helpful. Seeing something change is hopeful.
Cognitive Therapy
Thoughts are a powerful force to harness. Developing the power of thought management creates positive change, even when a situation may not. This can be hard work, but has shown effectiveness for thousands of people seeking mental health and wellness.
- Lessen rumination and overthinking
- Gain perspective within emotional situations
- Choose more helpful ways to think about events
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Narrative therapy
Thought leads action and feeds emotion. To take charge of our thoughts we take back our lives.
Mindfulness
Counseling should provide opportunity to connect with your experience at all levels. Mindfulness is the skill of being present in the moment. Mindfulness skills improve focus, creativity, and reduce overall stress levels.
- Increase awareness of mind-body connection
- Understand the impact of stress and trauma on the body and mind
- Developing specific skills for managing strong emotion
There is truly no separation of mind and body; this is an artificial definition to help us understand our own complexity.
Life Stress and Transitions
Change can be a good thing. Change can be a hard thing. Often the biggest need is to recognize and mark the impact it has on us. Grief is an amazing natural healing that comes with all kinds of change; usually we are impatient and uncomfortable with it. If you are navigating large changes, counseling can help you lean into the resilience and depth brought within that change.
- Grief therapy
- Divorce and separation
- Relocation
- Career and job transitions
- Parenting support
- Adoption
- Learn to allow and accept the natural healing grief provides
- Honor major changes and their impact on your life
- Explore the power of our internal response to change
- Develop growth mindset and more flexible thinking
- Build on your strengths for greater resilience
The only thing permanent in life is change. Optimum health means getting better at managing change.
Faith-integrated Counseling
Faith is a powerful source of healing and wellness. Faith-integrated counseling assures that you can process openly the growth, hurts and challenges from the lens of your faith journey. Wherever you are in your spiritual journey, it is relevant to your mental health and well-being
- Finding how faith practices can promote mental health recovery
- Assessing how loss, grief, hurt can alter our faith
- Recognizing our greater search for meaning
Active faith is central in a person’s identity. It has informed their life story, what they believe about themselves and others, and who they want to become.
Trauma Therapy
Some things just hit harder. Trauma is something overwhelming, that creates a sense of being ‘stuck’. Trauma can bring a change in biological stress response, an altered outlook on life, or even intrusive thoughts and memories. Make sure and check in with your counselor if you notice signs of trauma responses.
- Inability to forget and move on
- Difficulty talking about events
- Irritability and insomnia
- Feeling unsafe in the world and cynical in relationships
- Detachment from life, emotional numbness
- Challenges imagining a future
- Understand the biological responses to trauma
- Approach memories without emotional overwhelm
- Developing mindfulness and specific skills for managing strong emotion
- Exploring internalized trauma narrative
Trauma therapy isn’t just talking about the bad thing; it's learning how that thing has changed us and finding resilience rather than destruction within ourselves.
Trauma Therapy
Some things just hit harder. Trauma is something overwhelming, that creates a sense of being ‘stuck’. Trauma can bring a change in biological stress response, an altered outlook on life, or even intrusive thoughts and memories. Make sure and check in with your counselor if you notice signs of trauma responses.
- Inability to forget and move on
- Difficulty talking about events
- Irritability and insomnia
- Feeling unsafe in the world and cynical in relationships
- Detachment from life, emotional numbness
- Challenges imagining a future
- Understand the biological responses to trauma
- Approach memories without emotional overwhelm
- Developing mindfulness and specific skills for managing strong emotion
- Exploring internalized trauma narrative
Trauma therapy isn’t just talking about the bad thing; it's learning how that thing has changed us and finding resilience rather than destruction within ourselves.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Using IFS theory can help us reconcile unhealthy patterns within us through a mindful inventory of inner experience. The theory proposes that we all have several parts within us that can, when life gets challenging, force us into unhealthy or extreme roles. IFS can help calm many sources of inner tension.
- Struggling with perspective and clarity
- Difficulty feeling playful or creative
- Anxiety and lack of confidence
- Self-judgment and criticism
- Feeling scattered and never fully present
- Reconciling conflicting feelings and values to calm inner struggle
- Increase confidence, clarity and compassion
- Support a curious and connected approach to life
- Promote true courage through acceptance and alignment with values