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Clinical Focus

Therapeutic Approaches

Our therapists incorporate a comprehensive clinical approach that utilizes resources from multiple forms of therapeutic interventions.


We aim to establish the best fit for each client's needs.

Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

Client Focused & Person Centered Therapy

Solution Focused Therapy

Reality Therapy and Grounding

Traditional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Integrative and Holistic Therapy

Existential Therapy

Anxiety & Depression

According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), approximately 25 percent of U.S. adults struggle with depression, anxiety or some combination of both. In any given year, approximately 6.9 percent of American adults — about 16 million people — live with depression. Approximately 18.1 percent — about 42 million — live with anxiety. 

NIMH estimates that an even greater percentage of adolescents ages 12-18 struggle with depression and anxiety — approximately 9.1 percent and 25.1 percent, respectively. Getting professional help is the first step in letting go and the refusal to be a statistic.

-Laurie Meyers 

American Counseling Association

Grief & Loss

Grief, as much as it often inspires thoughts of separation, is our mind’s way of recognizing over and over how close we truly all are. Loss is as much a part of life as growth, each movement a step away from one space into and towards another. There is no gender, economic status or race that is exempt. The form loss takes and the way each of us works through the consequences will differ, though never in such a way that it cannot be felt by someone else. Grief binds us together like strings connecting a human collage, disparate pieces being reminded they all exist on the same canvas.

- David Teachout

American Counseling Association

Trauma

Natural disasters, ongoing wars, terrorist attacks, plane crashes, school violence and abuse are among the most widely recognized causes of trauma, but one expert points out that trauma can also stem from events that don’t necessarily make the national news. “Every day, counselors work with clients who are exposed to or experience the tragedies of daily life — auto accidents, the sudden loss of family members, friends, classmates or coworkers,” says Jane Webber, associate professor at New Jersey City University and coordinator of the university’s counseling and school counseling program. “Where we once considered traumatic events as rare, we now know that most people experience one or more such events in their lifetime.”

-Lynne Shallcross

American Counseling Association

Self-esteem & Self-worth

Self-esteem is contingent on success. We basically like ourselves and we judge ourselves positively when we succeed and when we do well. But the second we fail and make a mistake, our self-esteem goes out the window and we do not judge ourselves positively.


The problem with self-esteem is it tends to be comparative in nature. Basically, if I have high self-esteem I have to feel special and above average. That basic need to be better than others is based on a logical impossibility. There’s no way everybody can be above average at the same time. We’re losing before we’re even out of the gate.

-Kristin Neff

Professor at the University of Texas at Austin

Family Conflict & Marital Issues

During the counseling process, most clients will describe some form of interpersonal or relational trouble. This trouble might be identified as relationship dissatisfaction, conflict in a marriage or partnership, or even the absence of relationship (loneliness).


It is important to remember we are all individuals and moreover individuals with different needs. Beyond being a mother, father, brother, sister, son, daughter, wife, or husbands, we are individuals. Without appropriate self care and communication, our worlds are open to feelings of being misunderstood, isolation, and bitterness.

-Traci Pulliam Collins

Licensed Professional Counselor


Peer Relationships & School Issues

As much as I appreciate my formal training, the best lessons of all — the ones that really got my attention and took hold — have come from the young people I’ve been privileged to serve. These lessons can be condensed into two practical principles of school-based counseling: 1) Involve students and 2) build solutions from strengths and resources.

As further testimony to the expertise of my youthful teachers, these two strategies are strongly supported by mountains of empirical research in counseling and psychotherapy. More specifically, research indicates that counseling outcomes depend largely on the quality of the client-counselor alliance, the client’s hope for a better future and the extent to which the client’s opinions, values, strengths, social supports, life experiences and other “client factors” are incorporated into counseling.

-John J. Murphy

Professor in the Department of Psychology and Counseling at the University of Central Arkansas

Life Transitions

Retirement often seems to be about trade-offs. You may have more time to do the things you love but less money to devote to those things. You may have more opportunities to exercise and enjoy life, yet you have to navigate new health care and insurance issues. You can travel more, but that might mean connecting less often with former colleagues and community friends. You may finally get to focus on being a full-time grandparent or spouse, but your previous career-focused identity must be left behind.

Counselors are trained to help clients navigate this changing landscape as they cross the “finish line” into what may be the most carefree and satisfying time of their lives.

-Stacy Notaras Murphy

American Counseling Association

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