Individual Therapy
Individual therapy involves working on a one-on-one basis with a therapist to set goals and create
positive changes in your life. We strive for an atmosphere that will allow clients of all ages to feel safe and comfortable in discussing their concerns. We provide individual therapy for children, adolescents, and adults. Young children are helped individually through play therapy, a technique that allows children to achieve optimal mental health through play based models.
People come in for therapy for a number of different reasons. These may include treatment for depression, anxiety, dissatisfaction with life, relationship problems, resolving past trauma, or feelings of emptiness.
Additionally, ongoing therapy is a common and useful means of self-growth and self-actualization. Therapy can help people to resolve barriers which interfere with positive qualities, such as joy, compassion, peace, self-esteem, spiritual connection, and love.
The sessions may focus on current or past problems, experiences, thoughts, feelings, or relationships. This may involve learning new skills, trying out new behaviors, working through old issues, grieving, or letting go of things that no longer serve health or well-being.
Reasons for seeking therapy may include:
Family Therapy
Family therapy can assist your family in resolving conflict, improving communication, problem solving together, and creating harmony in your home. Family relationships are vital to the well-being of individuals. When families can respond to each other’s emotional needs, respect differences, and work through difficult feelings families become stronger.
Your therapist may recommend that you meet as whole family, or also have some supplemental individual appointments to address topics and issues that relate to your family’s therapy work. Individual therapy with children or adolescents will include a family therapy component as part of the treatment plan.
In general, anyone who wants to improve strained family relationships can benefit from family therapy. You
can use family therapy to address many specific issues, such as marital and financial problems, conflict
between parents and children, and the effects of substance abuse and depression on the entire family.
A family therapist:
Play Therapy
What is Play Therapy? Play therapy is a structured, theoretically based approach to therapy that builds on the normal communicative and learning processes of children. The curative powers inherent in play are used in many ways. Therapists strategically utilize play therapy to help children express what is troubling them when they do not have the verbal language to express their thoughts and feelings. In play therapy, toys are like the child’s words and play is the child’s language. Play therapy is a well established discipline based upon a number of psychological theories. Research, both qualitative and quantitative shows that it is highly effective in many cases. Recent research by PTUK, an organization affiliated to Play Therapy International, suggests that 71% of the children referred to play therapy will show a positive change.
Who Comes to Play Therapy? Children are referred for play therapy to resolve their problems which can include behavioral problems such as acting out at school or in the home, emotional difficulties such as depression, anxiety, or OCD, or poor social skills. Children also are referred to come in to work through family issues such as divorce, death, loss and abandonment issues.
Why Play in Therapy? Play is a fun, enjoyable activity that is the natural way in which children learn about and explore the world around them. It elevates our spirits and brightens our outlook on life. Play Therapy utilizes this natural ability of children and uses developmentally appropriate techniques to expand self-expression, self-knowledge, self-actualization and self-efficacy. Play relieves feelings of stress and boredom, connects us to people in a positive way, stimulates creative thinking and exploration, regulates our emotions, and boosts our ego. In addition, play allows us to practice skills and roles needed for survival. Researchers now have evidence that learning and development are best fostered through play. Play Therapy Can:
Play therapy differs from regular play in that the therapist helps children to address and resolve their own problems. Play therapy builds on the natural way that children learn about themselves and their relationships in the world around them. Through play therapy, children learn to:
Individual therapy involves working on a one-on-one basis with a therapist to set goals and create
positive changes in your life. We strive for an atmosphere that will allow clients of all ages to feel safe and comfortable in discussing their concerns. We provide individual therapy for children, adolescents, and adults. Young children are helped individually through play therapy, a technique that allows children to achieve optimal mental health through play based models.
People come in for therapy for a number of different reasons. These may include treatment for depression, anxiety, dissatisfaction with life, relationship problems, resolving past trauma, or feelings of emptiness.
Additionally, ongoing therapy is a common and useful means of self-growth and self-actualization. Therapy can help people to resolve barriers which interfere with positive qualities, such as joy, compassion, peace, self-esteem, spiritual connection, and love.
The sessions may focus on current or past problems, experiences, thoughts, feelings, or relationships. This may involve learning new skills, trying out new behaviors, working through old issues, grieving, or letting go of things that no longer serve health or well-being.
Reasons for seeking therapy may include:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- PTSD
- Family-of-origin issues
- Self-esteem
- Eating disorders/Body image
- Sexual abuse
- Addictions (food, sex, shopping, gambling, drugs, alcohol)
- Relationship issues
- Coping mechanisms
- Grief and loss
- Trauma, violence, abuse
- Sexual problems
Family Therapy
Family therapy can assist your family in resolving conflict, improving communication, problem solving together, and creating harmony in your home. Family relationships are vital to the well-being of individuals. When families can respond to each other’s emotional needs, respect differences, and work through difficult feelings families become stronger.
Your therapist may recommend that you meet as whole family, or also have some supplemental individual appointments to address topics and issues that relate to your family’s therapy work. Individual therapy with children or adolescents will include a family therapy component as part of the treatment plan.
In general, anyone who wants to improve strained family relationships can benefit from family therapy. You
can use family therapy to address many specific issues, such as marital and financial problems, conflict
between parents and children, and the effects of substance abuse and depression on the entire family.
A family therapist:
- Teaches family members about how families function in general and how their family functions.
- Helps the family focus less on single family members and focus more
on the family as a whole. - Assists in identifying conflicts and anxieties and helps the family develop strategies to
resolve them. - Strengthens all family members so they can work on their problems together.
- Teaches ways to handle conflicts and changes within the family differently.
- Relationship conflict
- Mental heath issues
- Sibling Rivalry
- Blended Family
- Divorcing families
- Parent & child conflict
- Health crises
- Grief and loss
- Adult children intervening with aging parents
- Extended family problems
- Substance abuse
Play Therapy
What is Play Therapy? Play therapy is a structured, theoretically based approach to therapy that builds on the normal communicative and learning processes of children. The curative powers inherent in play are used in many ways. Therapists strategically utilize play therapy to help children express what is troubling them when they do not have the verbal language to express their thoughts and feelings. In play therapy, toys are like the child’s words and play is the child’s language. Play therapy is a well established discipline based upon a number of psychological theories. Research, both qualitative and quantitative shows that it is highly effective in many cases. Recent research by PTUK, an organization affiliated to Play Therapy International, suggests that 71% of the children referred to play therapy will show a positive change.
Who Comes to Play Therapy? Children are referred for play therapy to resolve their problems which can include behavioral problems such as acting out at school or in the home, emotional difficulties such as depression, anxiety, or OCD, or poor social skills. Children also are referred to come in to work through family issues such as divorce, death, loss and abandonment issues.
Why Play in Therapy? Play is a fun, enjoyable activity that is the natural way in which children learn about and explore the world around them. It elevates our spirits and brightens our outlook on life. Play Therapy utilizes this natural ability of children and uses developmentally appropriate techniques to expand self-expression, self-knowledge, self-actualization and self-efficacy. Play relieves feelings of stress and boredom, connects us to people in a positive way, stimulates creative thinking and exploration, regulates our emotions, and boosts our ego. In addition, play allows us to practice skills and roles needed for survival. Researchers now have evidence that learning and development are best fostered through play. Play Therapy Can:
- Help children learn more adaptive behaviors.
- Provides a corrective emotional experience necessary for healing
- Promote cognitive development
- Provide insight about and resolution of inner conflicts or dysfunctional thinking in the child
- Heal from trauma, loss, and/or grief experiences
Play therapy differs from regular play in that the therapist helps children to address and resolve their own problems. Play therapy builds on the natural way that children learn about themselves and their relationships in the world around them. Through play therapy, children learn to:
- communicate with others
- express feelings
- modify behavior
- develop problem-solving skills
- learn a variety of ways of relating to others.
