There is no "one size fits all" approach to counseling. After getting to know you and your goals, together we will work together to identify the best approach to help things get better. Typically, this is done through individual counseling, couples counseling, family counseling, or a combination of all of these. No matter what type of treatment you engage in, you can expect a supportive and trusting environment to help make change the most successful it back be.
Individual Counseling:
Individual counseling is when you come to therapy alone and talk about your own personal struggles. Treatment is structured around the focus of improving your life. Individual counseling puts you in the driver seat of your change. Therapy will be tailored to your unique personality and pace for change.
Couples Counseling:
Relationships evolve and change over time. Expecting the person you choose to be in a relationship with will be exactly the same days, months, years later only sets the relationship up for stress. Couples counseling can be beneficial at many different intersections of a relationship.
Conflict in relationships is inevitable. The goal of coming to therapy with your partner is to increase communication, identify individual partner issues, and work towards being on the same page as your partner. Traditional couples counseling and pre-martial counseling consists of working through current issues in a supportive environment, anticipating upcoming issues and helping couples navigate their own needs and balancing the needs of their partner.
Family Counseling:
All families are unique and all carry their own individual experiences of life. The family is treated as the client, with all perspectives considered. Family counseling consists of therapy with anyone in your life that has a close enough relationship with you to impact your life. Family therapy typically happens when large life events have impacted many members of a family, and the goal is to work together to overcome these issues.
Treatment is individual to the needs of your family and what your family needs. Family therapy may be everyone in your family in one room working together every week. It could also be sub-groups of the family that vary week to week in therapy. Family therapy is conducted in a supportive and nurturing environment.