Adults, Teens, Children (ages 8+)
Individuals
One on one counseling with the therapist gives individuals a space to address various presenting problems including anxiety and depression, trauma, childhood neglect or abuse, addiction, dissociation, life skills and more. Your therapist will collaborate with you on personalized goals for treatment.
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Couples
Whether you are coming in for pre-marital counseling, having issues with communication or conflict skills in your marriage, or even deeper issues including affair recovery, sexual and emotional intimacy, or more, your therapist is here to help you both towards relational recovery and health.
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Family
A family is a system in which each member has a specific role to play. Individuals in a family system cannot be fully understood in isolation from each other. Your therapist will help identify the family dynamics, patterns, and boundaries that are causing issues within the system, and work with your family to create healthier relationships with one another.
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Foster/Adoptive Parenting & Family Relations
Most children placed in foster care or with adopted parents have experienced deep hurts from their birth parents and family. These hurts create broken trust for these young ones. As a foster or adoptive parent, connecting with your new loved one can be challenging. Your therapist can help teach you trust-based relationship building techniques that will help you understand, connect with and build emotional safety for your child in a way they can understand as well as help your child learn how to communicate and express needs to you in a healthy way. Please be aware that TLC does not provide home-studies or adoption legal services.
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
EMDR
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma.
EMDR therapy is an eight-phase treatment. Eye movements (or other bilateral stimulation) are used during one part of the session. After the clinician has determined which memory to target first, he or she asks the client to hold different aspects of that event or thought in mind and to use their eyes to track the therapist’s hand as it moves back and forth across the client’s field of vision. Through the use of bilateral stimulation, internal associations arise and the client begins to process the memory and disturbing feelings.
In successful EMDR therapy, the meaning of painful events is transformed on an emotional level. For instance, a rape victim shifts from feeling horror and self-disgust to holding the firm belief that, “I survived it and I am strong.” Unlike talk therapy, the insights clients gain in EMDR therapy result not so much from clinician interpretation, but from the client’s own accelerated intellectual and emotional processes. The effect is that clients conclude EMDR therapy feeling empowered by the very experiences that once debilitated them. Their wounds have not just closed, they have transformed.
