Are you feeling Depressed?

Depression, fear, and anxiety are some of the most common and uncomfortable emotions that many people experience at some point in their lives. Through mental health counseling and treatment, we assist you in recovering the motivation, perspective, and joy you once had in your life. Many individuals can experience symptoms associated with painful and traumatic circumstances. Anxiety, fear, and hopelessness are a few emotions that can linger post traumatic events. We work to assist you in overcoming these symptoms and guide you through the process of grief and healing.

Are you looking to reconnect with your partner?

EFT or Emotionally Focused Therapy is a short-term approach to establish reconnection between partners. Arguments between couples are not a lack of communication but a protest of not feeling safe, secure or being able to trust their partners. Couples become anxious, fearful, numb or distant. EFT allows couples to express their needs for love, support and protection that are hidden by the harsh words of conflict. EFT moves couples from distress to reconnection, collaboration and compromise. You’ll feel like more of a team again. Reestablish trust and treat one another with more kindness and understanding. EFT helps couples that are dealing with infidelities, pornography addiction and ongoing conflict. As well as intimacy and sexual issues.

Are you having sexual behavior issues?

We offer a supportive and respectful environment for you to explore sexual behavior issues that may be holding you back and impacting your relationships. Common issues addressed are pornography addiction, compulsive sexual behavior, and court ordered sexual boundary treatment.
Some of the things you can expect to address include negative thinking patterns, negative moods and feelings that influence your behaviors, and how to manage your unwanted thoughts and urges moving forward. Understand how your behavior has hurt other people. You will begin to understand risk factors and thinking errors that contributed to the unwanted behavior.
If needed we work with the couple in a collaborative approach to rebuild relationships, process the damage done by the behavior and move forward building trust and intimacy.

Are you facing challenges with your Teen?

Teenage years are a period of growth. Challenging belief systems, choosing an identity and navigating the complicated social system are just a few of the struggles teens face.
As a young person transitions from the teen years to a young adult many fears can surface that at times are overwhelming.
Many teens struggle with peer pressure, social media and other cyber bullying that can contribute to feelings of depression and hopelessness.
I work with teens to strengthen core beliefs, manage negative thought patterns and learn how to better cope with difficult emotions.
I have also created a healthy boundaries curriculum designed to help teens understand what healthy relationships are and have better information surrounding consent and sexual boundaries.

Impact Counseling offers both court ordered treatment groups as well as outpatient therapy groups. Groups are led by seasoned clinicians. Group therapy allows for clients to connect with others experiencing similar issues. They are able to gain insight, learn new skills to manage symptoms, and find compassion that they are not alone in their journey. Some of the therapeutic groups we offer include:
Changing Directions: Management of Anxiety and Depression
Women and Relationships: Establishing healthy relationships for women
Men and Relationships: Establishing healthy relationships for men
Court Ordered Anger Management
Court ordered Juvenile Healthy Boundaries
Groups are by referral only. An intake session is required prior to your initial group session. Insurance may or may not cover the cost of groups. Please call or email for more information.

Many people have experienced traumatic events, or simply not enough good in their life that has contributed to maladaptive trauma responses. You may have heard of fight, flight freeze and fawn. These are trauma coping responses that can come out as an excessive response to triggering situations and stimuli. In addition, when we experience trauma or ongoing negativity in our lives, we develop negative core beliefs which are beliefs we have about ourselves and the world that prevent us from feeling safe or connected.
EMDR, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is a mode of therapy that targets traumatic memories and creates mew ways of processing those memories. EMDR is a scientifically supported method of treatment for PTSD. During the EMDR session the therapist may use their hand, light bar, headphones or taps for bilateral brain stimulation. Memories may be processed quickly during one session, or may take multiple sessions to achieve complete reprocessing. EMDR therapy allows new positive information to create new ways of thinking in the brain.
Our therapist also use multiple modalities to address the underlying core belief systems including: schema therapy, attachment-based therapy, sand-tray, cognitive behavioral CBT and dialectical behavioral therapy, DBT.

What is Play Therapy?

As adults we live in a world of logic, reason, and verbalization. Sometimes we forget what it was like to be a kid, creating a world of make believe, games, and imagination. For young people this is how their brains process information. Brains do not fully complete forming the prefrontal cortex, which is where reason and problem solving reside, until around age 25. Until then, young people work through trauma, emotional processing, and problem solving in areas of the brain typically associated with creativity and play.

During both directive and non-directive Therapeutic Play a can develop:
Cooperation
Competence/Mastery
Adjustment to Trauma
Positive Social Modeling
Attachment Healing
Positive Communication Skills
Reality Testing
Self-Control
Stress Inoculation
And more . .


What is Sand Tray Therapy?

Not to be confused with Sand play, Sand Tray Therapy for adults and teens is an expressive, non-verbal therapy form that allows clients to process emotions and events into an external form. Sometimes we have things in our lives that we are aware of that can cause us distress; this is described as “residing in the conscious”. At other times we are aware of what is causing us distress and continue to participate in a behavior or though pattern and do not understand why; this is described as “residing in the unconscious”. Sand Tray can assist clients in moving your awareness from the unconscious to the conscious in order to inform and empower you once again.