About Us
How we view counseling
Studies have shown that the single biggest factor in whether therapy will be helpful to a client is the therapeutic relationship itself.
If you don’t feel safe, respected, and supported the therapy isn’t going to be very helpful. So while we spend a lot of our careers learning skills to help you with your thoughts, heal your traumas, and regulate your emotions, our main focus is in creating a welcoming, accepting, nurturing, and supportive environment within which to do the work.
There seem to be two main areas in the work that we do. One is in helping you to make sense of who you are and how to best support yourself. This largely relates to issues like neurodivergence (e.g. ADHD and Autism), sexual orientation, gender identity, and some biochemical brain issues (e.g. bipolar). This is often involves learning skills to manage better and working on self acceptance.
The other is unpacking and healing the things that have happened to you. In certain chaotic, dangerous, or unsupportive environments we learn adaptive coping skills that work in those environments. However, as we continue to grow and move out of those environments those skills that used to be helpful are sometimes causing more problems than they are solving. Some examples of these are anxiety, addictions, and eating disorders. Here we help you to unpack your thoughts and beliefs, shifting beliefs that are less than helpful or accurate, and heal your trauma.
In essence, we are here to help you create a life worth living. We look forward to our journey together.
What to Expect
Based on the issues you are seeking help with, your insurance, and your therapist preferences (if any) we recommend a therapist to you if we think we can be of help or let you know we aren’t the best fit if we aren’t. We endeavor to never accept a client we aren’t qualified to assist.
Generally you will speak, text, or email with a therapist to see you are a good fit for working together.
Once both of you agree it is a good fit, the therapist will invite you (via email) to our secure online portal. This will allow you to set up your account with us and fill out the paperwork online so you can hit the ground running when you arrive for your first appointment. We suggest filling out the paperwork the day, or day after, you receive the invitation to decrease the likelihood that you forget to do it. It is important that the paperwork be filled out before your first session.
In the first session, the therapist will go over your paperwork and get more information about what you are seeking help with.
If they feel they can be of help, they will outline how they might assist you in this based on their training, experience, and personality. If that feels like a good fit to you, then you would discuss how often you would like to be seen and start scheduling sessions.