Managing ANXIETY, WORRY, or PANIC
Learn effective ways to deal with your anxiety, understand your anxiety, and how to react differently to your thoughts and stressful situations. Including special techniques to cope with uncomfortable situations so they become more comfortable. Anxiety often interferes with the enjoyment of daily life; however, with therapy many of the symptoms can be improved or eliminated.
Understand and Controlling ANGER
Understand your anger by exploring the causes of your anger, the costs of anger, and the advantages of anger. Learn how to create coping thoughts, ways to communicate to solve problems, develop assertiveness and negotiation skills, and most importantly how to be good to yourself.
My Life/ My Plan CAREER selection
We spend a significant portion of our life working. Find a career that fits your personality, interests, skills, and preferences. Analyze assessment results, exploring options, make a career selection, and lay out a specific plan. Career guidance for teens is important as they pick their pathway in school. A career will influence their happiness for decades. Invest in their future. Help your child find the career of their dreams.
PARENTING
Skills and techniques to help parents break away from negative interactions and gain cooperation. Learn how to create an environment that nurtures personal responsibility, success, and growth.
Healthy RELATIONSHIPS
Setting boundaries, self¬-esteem, and life skills. If you are interested in making and keeping friends or developing a healthy relationships with a significant other, this therapy is for you. We will cover communication, understanding each other, resolving conflict, and working together.
GRIEF
The death of a significant person is often accompanied by feelings of pain, isolation, confusion, increased stress, and loss of energy. Unexpected trigger can bring painful memories and we may feel stuck in our grief. In order to enjoy life again, it is sometimes necessary to do some grief work to address your loss and the feelings associated with that loss. Our goal is to provide a safe, supportive environment for grieving individuals where they can explore the effects of their grief and facilitate movement into a better emotional balance.
PROCRASTINATION
Procrastination is not being lazy but rather “putting off”, “postponing”, “delaying”, “deferring”, “leaving to the last minute” important tasks with negative consequences. This is a fairly typical behavior for a lot of people.
PERFECTIONISM
Perfectionism involves putting pressure on ourselves to meet high standards which then powerfully influences the way we think about ourselves. Researchers have shown that parts of perfectionism are helpful, and parts are unhelpful. We’re here to help you identify and work on the unhelpful parts, so that you get satisfaction from your achievements and lead a more fulfilling life.
MENTAL SKILLS TRAINING
Intensive mental skills training for optimal concentration, superior confidence, and consistent performance in academics, music or sports. How to cope with anxiety, high expectations, mistakes, and fears.
DEPRESSION
Depression can be sadness, frustration, disappointment, or lethargy. It can affect anyone at any stage of life. There are a number of things that help overcome depression or prevent us from becoming depressed.
Assertiveness TRAINING
Assertiveness is a communication style. It is being able to express your feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and opinions in an open manner.
SELF-ESTEEM
Self-esteem is how much or how little you value yourself.
Self-esteem includes self-image, self-concept, self-acceptance, self-confidence, self-efficacy, self-respect, and self-love.
BODY ACCEPTANCE
Are you a person who finds that you spend a great deal of time focused on a particular aspect of your appearance? Do you view a particular part of your body as seriously flawed in some way? Have you noticed that your efforts to improve or hide the area of concern from others is becoming time consuming and affecting your life in a negative way? Do you have trouble believing others when they tell you that you look fine? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be experiencing a problem called Body Dysmorphic Disorder.
DISORDERED EATING
Learn how eating disorders develops, how they are maintained, and strategies and techniques to change the problem behaviors associated with disordered eating.