Family/Parenting Counseling

Parents your phone calls are welcome to discuss family and parenting matters.

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Loss & Grief: For those coping with loss associated with death, divorce, or crisis. The approaches used are aimed to facilitate emotional integration, repair damage to self-worth and security, provide normality and guidance within grieving process.

Social Skills: Enhancement skill training for overcoming shyness, making friends, asserting self with peers and authority figures, conflict resolution, problem solving.

Self-Esteem: For those with impaired self-image, self-destructive patterns, poor peer selection, low regard for future, apathy.

Domestic Abuse: Offering informed support and corrective reorganization for those coping with past or present abuse - sexual, physical and/or emotional - to self or witnessed in family setting. Appropriate for those needing to establish trust, emotional healing, developing boundaries, restoring identity.

Anger Management: Whether expressed as unfit outbursts, violence, or self-destructive behaviors counseling can be used to develop impulse control skills and non-violent beliefs through the use of self-monitoring skill training, health peer culture, constructive direct communication skills.

Family Problems: For family troubles manifesting as acting out, truancy, stealing, non-compliance with parental limits, drug and alcohol abuse. Includes establishing and facilitating home-school behavior agreements to correct behavior/poor performance.

Underachievement:: Through use of effective environmental controls and motivation methods used to improve academic performance and generalized underfunctioning.