Specifics
INDIVIDUALS
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Individuals of all ages are welcome. If you are in a relationship or the issues you are presenting involve someone else, it may be possible to include that person in some of your sessions as appropriate. Should that occur, everything that has been discussed during your solo sessions will remain confidential unless you give express permission for any of that material to be revealed.
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FAMILIES AND CHILDREN
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Parents are always seen as part of a child’s therapy. They may participate periodically or part of each session depending upon that child’s age and the problem being treated.
Younger children are often approached through play therapy and may leave the office under the impression that they have just had a nice time playing a game or drawing a picture. This gentle approach helps them discuss their hurts or fears without a traumatic interrogation.
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COUPLES
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Couples and families are best seen together. Sometimes it is necessary for the therapist to speak with a member individually, but those individual sessions are not usually longer than the norm.
Marriage or couple counseling cannot happen without both parties participating. If only one person attends, then the relationship itself is not being treated and the other person is not being heard nor had the opportunity to discuss their point of view.
Therapy is meant to improve communication skills and no matter too small to discuss if it is something that disturbs you.
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ABUSE AND TRAUMA
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It is a rare person who reaches adulthood without experiencing some kind of life trauma. This may be something as severe and identifiable as sexual abuse, death of a loved one or a terrible accident. But, it may also be as slight as long-term rejection and neglect or abandonment that leaves the person with feelings of worthlessness or being fundamentally unlovable. Working to resolving these traumas through therapy can significantly improve quality of life.
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LIFE TRANSITIONS
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As we age, our lives change. Our bodies begin to betray us with wrinkles, lumps and bumps, creaks and groans, loss of energy and hair. Our children are born and experience their own growing pains. They eventually move on and leave their nests. Ill or very aged parents enter their own life crises. We are faced with our mortality through illness, the death of our own parents and age and decline. And other major life events may also happen. Therapy can be a great help as you process these life changes and can help heal the pain of grief and loss.