Counseling Therapy

In-person sessions

Tuesday-Friday

virtual sessions

Monday-Friday


Services Provided

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Our practice takes an integrative approach, using evidence-based practices tailored to meet each client’s needs:

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Emotion Focused Therapy

Attachment Theory

Individual Therapy

Ages 13-65+

In-person and virtual sessions available

Family Therapy

To support the individual client’s journey to wholeness *couples/marriage counseling unavailable

In-person sessions only

Treatment Specialties

Anxiety

Anxiety is a mental and physical reaction to perceived threats. In small doses, anxiety is helpful. It protects us from danger, and focuses our attention on problems. But when anxiety is too severe, or occurs too frequently, it can become debilitating.
- Taken from "What is Anxiety?" on Therapistaid.com

Stress

Stress is one way that our bodies respond to the day-to-day struggles and demands of life. A little bit of stress can be healthy- it keeps us alert and productive. However, when we experience too much stress, it can result in serious physical, emotional, and behavioral symptoms.
-Taken from "Stress" on Therapistaid.com

Grief & Loss

Grief is the natural emotional response resulting from a significant loss- especially the death of a loved one. For some people, grief can become too painful. It can grow into something totally different, like depression or anxiety. It can also last for an extended time and take over a person's life for years.
-Taken from "Grief" on Therapistaid.com

Trauma

Trauma is a powerful emotional response to a distressing event, such as war, an accident, the unexpected loss of a loved one and/or abuse. Trauma can continue to cause both emotional and physical symptoms for many years after the event has concluded.
-Taken from "What is Trauma?" on Therapistaid.com

Adjustments/Life Transitions

An adjustment disorder is a stress-related condition that impacts an individual's emotions and/or behaviors.

An individual may experience a single event or multiple events that alter their life, and causes them to have an overwhelming sense of stress. Such events can include divorce/marriage, termination of a relationship, loss of a job, an illness, life threatening experience (i.e. an assault, car accident, natural disaster), death of a loved one, retirement, going away to school, or any other event that may cause an individual stress. For children and adolescents, events may include but are not limited to loss of a friendship, changing schools, parents separating, and moving to a new location.

While most people are able to adapt to these events within a few months, others have difficulty adjusting to these changes and experience a disturbance in their emotions and/or behaviors that impact their ability to function on a daily basis.

Compassion Fatigue

Compassion fatigue is the profound emotional and physical erosion that takes place when helpers are unable to refuel or regenerate. This term was previously connected to helping professions, but recently caregivers in various contexts have been noted to be impacted. A thought from someone suffering from compassion fatigue may be, "I've run out of cares to give."

common questions

The therapy experience is unique for each person. Therapy is not magic, mystical or mysterious; rather we use evidence-based practices back by research to help you achieve wholeness in your life.  We also make concepts practical for you, believing if you have a good understanding of the therapeutic process, you have a greater opportunity to achieve your goals.  Our ultimate goal is that you feel like you have made a good choice in seeking therapy and choosing CSM Counseling. We are very committed to the client relationship and we want your experience to be beneficial.

The first session has three parts:

Introduction to the practice

Introduce you to the office elements

Review the informed consent and client documents, providing you an opportunity to ask questions.

Explain the therapy process to increase your confidence in the commitment you and your therapist are making together.

Getting to know you

Discuss the responses provided in your intake form.

Ask questions to better understand your worldview and your experience.

Determining next steps

Review insights from the discussion and determine if we are a good fit to continue working together.

Discuss frequency of future sessions.

Create initial counseling goals to guide our future sessions.

After the first session, you might have one of two reactions – you may feel relief since you are finally opening up and getting some help… or you may leave with unresolved thoughts, feelings, and/or emotions. This is totally normal. Neither is indicative of whether or not therapy is working. It just means we have started shining light on some areas of your life.

The length of the session depends on the topics presented in the sessions.  At times, sessions can be a short 16 minutes and as long as 55 minutes.

Session frequency depends on many factors. We will discuss what is best for you to achieve your goals. Regular sessions tend to make better progress and create consistency for the therapeutic relationship.

Yes! There are some exceptions to confidentiality:

You give us written consent

A court mandate

Suspicion of abuse

A threat made to harm yourself or others

Learning of a threat made towards you

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If after the initial consultation we determine CSM Counseling may be a good fit for your needs, you will complete your client documents and other forms to get started.  Once complete, you will gain access to the scheduling calendar to select a date/time that work best for you. Click here to request an initial consultation