“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” - Christopher Reeve

Integrative counseling is a combined approach to psychotherapy that brings together different elements of specific therapies. Integrative counseling takes the view that each person needs to be considered as a whole and counselling techniques must be tailored to their individual needs and personal circumstances. Essentially, integrative counseling is not only concerned with what works, but why it works - tailoring therapy to the client and not the client to the therapy.   

Individual Counseling

Individual counseling is a collaborative effort between you and your counselor. Ther goal is to provide an open, supportive, and confidential environment for you to address the issues that are concerning you.

Couples Counseling

Emotionally Focused Couples Counseling is one of the few therapies that help couples renew feelings of love and connection with Family and Couples counseling. EFT is effective in helping couples build trust, communicate clearly, and resolve conflict. EFT focuses on helping couples develop the tools necessary to express needs and desires safely. Couples can learn to trust that their partner is available to hear what they’re feeling, and respond in a way that is constructive and loving. The biggest difference between EFT and other forms of therapy is EFT will actually help you and your partner or family truly care for each other again. It helps you connect in a secure and positive way that can only improve your relationship. Feeling love for each other again is fostered by strengthening your attachment to each other. Strong attachment bonds lead you and your partner or family to feeling safe together and knowing you are the most important person in each other’s lives. EFT strengthens these bonds by allowing you to open up to each other again in a safe and secure environment.

Family Counseling

Family counseling is unique because it addresses problems at a systemic level.  Multiple points of view must be considered, and multiple voices must have the opportunity to be heard.  In a family counseling session you don't just "treat" the problem, you explore the intricacies of the relationships involved to find the answers.  Family counseling can be especially useful in dealing with complex and difficult situations such as in-laws, blended families (step children or step parents) and former spouses.  A family counselor is there to facilitate the flow of communication and to empower you to work together toward a compromise that will allow harmony to return to your lives. 

Women's Counseling

Women's counseling can help you to accept and empower yourself with renewed spirit and energy. Being a woman isn’t always easy. Unreasonable expectations by others to be perfect, to meet everyone’s needs is a burden for many women. In turn, women often have their own unrealistic ideas about what they need to do to please other people; to be a loving and nurturing partner, a successful career woman and a perfect mother.

Teen Counseling

The teenage years are challenging for teens, not to mention their parents. Teens face many new pressures and may not always react in the best ways to the challenges they encounter. Some of the struggles teens face are a normal part of growing up.  In some cases, teens and their families may need extra support and guidance to help them deal with and navigate through these challenges.

teen and tween girls counseling

Our teen girls live in a complicated, contradictory, and media-saturated world, and the roads they must navigate extend beyond the changes of their physical bodies. Some of these roads include: discovering a unique identity, taking on more and more aspects of adulthood while leaving aspects of childhood behind, and developing independence while maintaining healthy family bonds.

Trauma Focused Counseling

Any event or experiences that shatters your sense of security, leaves you feeling confused, sad, shocked and sometimes feeling powerless to prevent it can be considered traumatic.  Often times people who have experienced trauma will find themselves reliving the trauma over and over again. The stress accompanying traumatic events demands coping strategies of the individual that far exceed their capabilities. They develop protective psychological mechanisms to help them deal with the stress, but this comes with a severe penalty. Over time, even after the trauma may be long past, the mind has not been able to reconcile the trauma with the sense of self. Without professional treatment, such individuals eventually become unable to function normally, as they are stuck in the past with these unresolved traumatic memories.

Distance Counseling

Traditionally counseling has been provided face-to-face, with the therapist and the client in the therapist’s office. In recent years, however, it has become more common for counseling to be offered through other, innovative formats. Specifically, technology-assisted, distance counseling—also known as online counseling or “e-counseling”—allows the therapist to conduct therapy with a client through means of the internet or telephone. Distance counseling can be particularly helpful for clients who are home-bound, who have disabilities, who live a considerable distance from the therapist’s office, or who travel frequently. Because it affords greater anonymity to the client, distance counseling can also be helpful in encouraging the client to self-disclose about difficult or sensitive issues.

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