Impact Counseling

Counseling and Treatment Services

Hope, Empowerment, Change

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Impact Counseling serves individuals, couples and families to have healthier connections and work through difficult or traumatic issues. See our treatment areas below.

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Welcome

Impact Counseling serves individuals, couples and families to have healthier connections and work through difficult or traumatic issues

Fostering Impactful Change

Do you or a loved one have an overwhelming or trapped feeling due to a personal or relationship challenge? Are you ready to make an impactful change but are unsure the steps you can take to begin that change? Life presents a wide variety of difficulties, and issues like depression, anxiety, grief and anger; these can have a profound impact on our well being and our relationships. Thankfully, we have the power within ourselves to overcome these obstacles, but sometimes we all need a little help.
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Impact Counseling Boise Merridith Manning

Merridith Manning, LMFT

My name is Merridith Manning. I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in both Idaho and California. I received a Master's in Clinical Psychology from Azusa Pacific University. Throughout my career I have worked in private practice, outpatient clinics, and in a psychiatric hospital. These experiences have helped me gain broad insight into mental health issues. I work with individuals, teens and families to find healthier ways of interacting. I help people challenge negative core beliefs, and build on hope to make positive changes in one's life. " My commitment is to help you grow from your struggles, heal from your pain, and move forward to where you want to be in your life." info@impactcou.com
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Kara Grant

Kara Grant

My name is Kara Grant, and I am a graduate-level counseling intern with Northwest Nazarene University studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling with an emphasis in trauma, grief, and crisis counseling. While life can be full of wonderful moments, there are often painful, difficult experiences that come up in our journey. These experiences may shape who we are, how we interact with others and the world, and leave us feeling stuck. I believe we are all trying to do our best given our life circumstances, but sometimes we need help to implement needed changes or healing. Taking the steps to seek help can often be difficult, so I am glad you are here. My goal is to be a safe, warm, and empathetic force on your healing journey. You are the expert of your own life and story, so I value a collaborative approach to the counseling process. This is a LGBTQIA+ affirming space, and I am currently offering counseling for adolescents, individuals, and couples under the supervision of Merridith Manning, LMFT #6546.
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Depression and Anxiety

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 an
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Depression, Fear, and Anxiety

These are common and uncomfortable emotions many people experience. We provide counseling and treatment to help individuals recover motivation, perspective, and joy, and to overcome lingering symptoms associated with painful or traumatic circumstances, guiding them through the process of grief, healing and resiliency.

Couples Counseling

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. 
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Couples Counseling (Emotionally Focused Therapy - EFT)

EFT is a short-term approach to establish reconnection between partners. Arguments are often a protest of not feeling safe or secure. EFT helps couples express their needs for love and support, moving them from distress to collaboration and compromise. We assist couples dealing with infidelities, pornography addiction, ongoing conflict, and intimacy/sexual issues.
Impact Counseling Boise Therapy for couples $
Impact Counseling Boise Sex Addiction

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.
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Sexual Behavior Issues

We offer a supportive and respectful environment to explore issues like pornography addiction, compulsive sexual behavior, and court-ordered sexual boundary treatment. Treatment focuses on managing unwanted thoughts and urges, addressing negative thinking patterns, and understanding the impact of behavior on others. When necessary, we work collaboratively with the couple to rebuild trust and intimacy.

Adolescent Counseling

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.
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Adolescent Counseling

Teenage years involve challenges such as choosing an identity, navigating social systems, and dealing with peer pressure or cyberbullying, which can contribute to feelings of depression and hopelessness. I work with teens to strengthen core beliefs, manage negative thought patterns, and develop better coping mechanisms. I have also developed a healthy boundaries curriculum to help teens understand healthy relationships, consent, and sexual boundaries.
Impact Counseling Boise Therapy Teenagers $
Impact Counseling Group Therapy

Group Therapy

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.
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Group Therapy

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.

Trauma, PTSD & EMDR

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.
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Trauma, PTSD & EMDR

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.
Impact Counseling Trauma, PTSD
Impact Counseling Play and Sand Therapy

Community Mental Health

At Impact Counseling we understand the challenges of finding an available therapist in the Treasure Valley. We have a robust intern program that works to develop new therapists as they obtain the required hours towards licensure. Our interns are supervised by experienced clinicians as they prepare for licensure. Our interns are able to see community based mental health clients on a sliding scale fee, providing more access to mental health counseling. Our interns work with couples, individuals and adolescents. For inquiries about reduced rate counseling please call the office for a consultation.
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Calm and Relaxing Environment

Our office is in a convenient location located on the Boise bench with. Access to our office by both the Orchard and Cole Road exits. Our office is on the ground level, is ADA accessible and offers a quiet, calm and confidential environment. We also provide Telehealth appointments.
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Excellence in Counseling in Boise, Idaho

Our therapists are mental health professionals with years of experience in counseling
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