MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING SERVICES, TAMPA FL
INDIVIDUAL Counseling
People seek counseling services for a variety of reasons and during different times of their lives. Whether you are adjusting to a life transition, overwhelmed with stress, anxiety or depression or desiring personal growth, therapy can help you work through these challenges. Therapy can help you explore your troubled feelings and unhelpful thoughts to begin restoring your inner peace and create a better life balance.
FAMILY counseling
Family counseling and therapy can help you improve troubled relationships with your partner, children or other family members. You may address specific issues such as parenting or relational problems, conflict between parents and children, or the impact of substance use or a mental illness on the entire family. Family therapy can help you learn how to navigate through life challenges and grow together as a family.
marriage counseling
It is easy to turn away or against one another when dissatisfaction, resentment and emotional disconnect builds up. Through couples therapy services, you can explore the underlying patterns of your relationship that are at the root of the problems. Counseling can shift things to a new, positive direction by improving communications and offering skills to cultivate emotional connection and intimacy.
CHILD counseling
Just like adults, children face many challenges and stressors in their daily lives, which can lead to symptoms of anxiety, depression, emotional reactivity, anger and acting out behavior. Counseling services can be helpful by allowing children to safely express and process their feelings and challenges, improve self-esteem and develop healthy coping skills to successfully adapt to current stressors.
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INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING
Individual counseling is not always about mental illness. It can help people in all walks of life to cope with difficult circumstances, emotional struggles or support them on their journey of personal growth and greater self-awareness.
common struggles
- Relationship Issues
- Family Problems
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Loss/Grief
- Trauma
- Stress management
- Divorce/Separation
- Women’s Issues
- Finding Balance
- Setting personal goals
benefits
Individuals seek counseling services for many different reasons and at different times in their lives. Counseling offers a safe space to be true to yourself and to explore and work through your emotions and challenges. During therapy you can explore unhelpful thoughts and behavioral patterns and substitute it with more positive ways to cope with your hardships. These positive changes will allow you to create a better life balance and facilitate transition to becoming the best version of yourself.
Challenges
Seeking counseling can be anxiety provoking. There may be some uncertainty about trusting another person with your deepest emotions. You may feel vulnerable by having to explore old memories and face some uncomfortable feelings. These challenges are normal and we offer the most sensitive approach to work through it at your own pace. At the beginning of therapy we provide a free consultation to answer your questions and to determine if we will be a good fit for each other in our counseling relationship.
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family COUNSELING
Through Family therapy we can enhance our communications, learn to effectively resolve problems, reduce family conflicts and deepen empathy and emotional connection.
common struggles
- Communication Problems
- Parenting Concerns
- Blended Family Issues
- Death of a Family Member
- Separation/Divorce
- Adjustment
- LGBTQ Acceptance Issues
- Individual Problems affecting Family
- Behavior Problems
- Illness of a Family Member
benefits
Family plays an important role in our emotional, physical and spiritual environment. As a result, our family members’ decisions, disabilities and hardships typically affect everyone. Sometimes we lose emotional connection with one another or have difficulties adjusting to family changes. Learning how to deal with these issues and grow together as a family makes seeking professional help beneficial. If your family is going through a hardship, schedule your free consultation now.
challenges
At times, some family members will indicate that they are not interested or don't believe in counseling. It may be helpful to explain the potential benefits and how they can address their specific family concerns to overcome initial resistance. The goal of family therapy is to improve family dynamics, create positive emotional atmosphere and develop healthy communications which lead to improved satisfaction of each individual member. Counseling services can help.
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marriage COUNSELING
We often seek couples counseling services as our last resort, however, most couples can enhance their relationship by mastering the skills taught in couples therapy before the serious problems arise.
common struggles
- Small issue turns to a major argument
- Feel ignored, unheard and frustrated
- Lack of appreciation
- Feel judged, hurt or rejected
- Arguments do not lead to solutions
- Missing closeness and intimacy
- Feel misunderstood and alone
- Have trouble communicating with each other
- Disagreements leave you feeling resentful
- Loss of physical intimacy
- Disappointed the relationship is not what you expected
benefits
Even the most "perfect" couples have their own road blocks they must get past, so you're not alone. Most couples can enhance their relationship by mastering the skills taught in couples counseling before the serious problems arise. Couples therapy also offers “neutral ground” to work through excising relational issues with professional guidance and support. Together we can clarify and explore solutions to the relational problems, work towards improving communications and learn and practice skills that cultivate emotional connection and intimacy.
challenges
Often times one partner will want to get help for the relationship by going into counseling while the other may say they “are not interested in coming" or “don’t believe in therapy”. This can be very discouraging if you are the partner who wants help. You may find it beneficial to attend individual therapy as working on yourself can help discover underlying triggers and consequently improve the relationship for both of you. Changes you make within yourself can go a long way to improving things between you and may encourage your partner to join you in.
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CHILD COUNSELING
children need help sometimes adjusting to life difficulties. in a safe, trusted environment, Through therapeutic play and creative interventions they can begin expressing their feelings and develop positive coping skills to deal with the current challenges.
common struggles
- Depression/Sadness
- Anxiety/Worry
- Anger/Behavioral problems
- Perfectionism
- Poor Grades
- Traumatic Experiences
- Adoption/Foster Care
- Attachment Issues
- Low self-esteem
- Parent/Child Relationship Problems
- Peer Relationship
- Self-Injury
- Separation/Divorce of Parents
benefits
When demands of the stressors exceed child’s ability to cope, they may develop symptoms of anxiety, depression, emotional reactivity, anger and acting out behavior. Children can experience trauma and attachment difficulties prior to going through adoption and foster care. Divorce, blended families and other life transitions may lead to adjustment issues in children.
Counseling can be helpful by allowing children to safely express and process their feelings and challenges, improve self-esteem and develop healthy coping skills to successfully adapt to current stressors.
challenges
Sometimes children may be initially reluctant or shy to engage in counseling. This is natural and is often eased by establishing trust and feelings of psychological safety and acceptance.
We begin our work by building genuine connection with children in order to be allowed in their inner world. During therapy, we use creative techniques, play, art, games and therapeutic books to connect and help your child process their feelings and challenges in their natural and age appropriate way. We honor uniqueness of each child and build progress upon their individual strengths, abilities and talents.
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PAYMENT / FEES
We do not accept insurance but at your request we will provide a monthly payment summary for you to submit to your insurance for possible out of network reimbursement. We do not check your benefits of guarantee any reimbursement from your insurance.
counseling
45 min
$115
counseling
50-60 min
$125-150
emdr / bRAINSPOTTING
50 min
$150
Initial Assessment
60 min
$155
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