Counseling Services
We provide a safe and supportive space to help you navigate life’s challenges and rediscover your path to wellness. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, seeking personal growth, or working through a difficult season, we’re here to guide you with compassion and expertise.
Our holistic approach is tailored to meet your unique needs, empowering you to overcome obstacles and create lasting, positive change in your life. Let’s begin this journey together.
1
Kathy’s therapeutic approach is eclectic in that she uses a variety of evidence-based interventions to create a custom plan for adolescent, teen, and adult clients.
2
Telehealth is available for teens and adults but is not offered for children 12 and under. It is also not appropriate for those suffering from severe psychiatric illness or for those who are a danger to themselves or others.
3
Research has shown that group therapy has unique benefits over individual therapy including not feeling alone in your problem (universality), interpersonal learning and gaining insight from others, group support and cohesiveness, a sense of belonging and camaraderie, development of socializing skills, and catharsis (experiencing and releasing pent-up emotion).
4
Parenting programs rely on one of two methods: using an external locus of control such as rewards and punishments or an internal locus of control, which creates inner motivation.
5
Play Therapy is an approach to communicating with children through the use of toys, games, art, and sand trays to help them explore and express feelings, learn and practice socially appropriate behavior, gain insight into why they do what they do, and learn how they can meet their needs more constructively.
6
The pre-teen and teen years are often stormy and stressful for them and for those who love them. Developmentally, it is a time of tremendous change for them physically and emotionally.
7
This involves working with Kathy's collection of miniature figures and objects in a tray of sand to process emotions, many which have not been communicated. This type of therapy is great for those who don’t really want to talk, have trouble expressing themselves verbally, or who can’t put words to their trauma.
8
Grief can be experienced in dozens of types of losses, including death of a loved one, divorce, a job loss, a move, family fractures, empty nesting, health struggles, pet loss, and many others.
8
For couples who are thinking about getting married, who are currently engaged, or who are in their first year of marriage, the Saving Your Marriage Before it Starts (SYMBIS) assessment provides valuable insight into the strengths and vulnerabilities of the relationship.