Resources
Trauma Healing
Trauma is often misunderstood as something that must happen to someone such as a natural disaster, sexual assault, wreck, war, etc. While these are definitely traumatic, trauma is actually defined as anything that overwhelms the brain’s ability to cope. This includes, but is not limited to: emotional neglect/abuse, physical neglect, betrayal, bullying, loss of a loved one, medical trauma, attachment injury, etc. We help adults and children find healing from their trauma by helping them holistically develop the tools necessary to help their brain cope, calm, and find healing.
Individual Counseling
We provide individual therapy for all ages. Individual counseling provides an opportunity for you to openly express your thoughts and feelings in a safe, nonjudgemental environment. You will have the opportunity to work through challenging or influential memories, identify aspects of your life that you would like to change, better understand yourselves and others, set personal goals, and work toward your desired changes.
Play Therapy
Play Therapy believes that play is the child’s natural language and toys are their communication. Using this natural medium of children, play therapy offers s psychological distance from the issue and an opportunity for the child to explore his or her hurts, worries, fears, etc. in a non-threatening way. It also teaches children important coping skills such as conflict resolution, emotional regulation, social skills and more. You can visit the Association for Play Therapy for more information about Play Therapy. In addition, you can find additional parenting/child resources here.
Marriage Therapy
Relationship distress is a pathway to negative patterns of communication that include criticism, defensiveness, and withdrawal. It can also include abuse and other harmful behaviors. We can help you and your partner to become aware of these patterns and create change based on the needs and feelings of each person in the relationship. Our goal is to help you develop a greater understanding of one another, deepen your emotional and physical bonds, promote closeness, repair hurt feelings and allow for forgiveness.
Partner Betrayal Trauma
If you have been through infidelity or have discovered that you partner struggles with a porn or sex addiction, you are likely experiencing what we call Betrayal Trauma. Betrayal Trauma is a relational trauma in which someone that you rely on for survival and support violates trust or well-being. Betrayal manifests through deception, a secret double life, sex/pornography addiction, sexual affairs, and even emotional affairs. Individual healing for betrayal trauma is specialized process in order to help those who have been betrayed have a safe, guided space to heal.
Grief Counseling
Grief is a natural reaction to loss that is experienced universally throughout the world. It is found in every culture, every religion and found on every continent. No one escapes its grasp or eludes its touch. It can catapult the strongest person in a spiral of depression, anger, and more. We cannot walk this painful journey for you, but we we can help you face the loss, walk alongside you in your journey of grief, and help you adjust to life as you now know it.
Parenting/Family Support
Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on this planet. It can be full of celebrations, but also full of hard challenges. We can help you navigate those hard challenges providing you with practical tips and tools to help your family thrive as well as you as a parent to reach your parenting goals. In addition, we can provide you the support needed to increase the family connection you seek.
Crisis of Faith
This world is full of joys, but also pain. Often the pain stops us cold and we do not know how to integrate those pains into varying aspects of our life, including our spiritual life. We can help you to navigate these questions of life and faith to reach a place of, not necessarily answers, but acceptance and reconciliation of your faith.
Infidelity and Affair Recovery
Discovering a partner’s infidelity or affair is not just devastating, it’s traumatic. This may include emotional or sexual affairs. Infidelity creates an attachment injury which leads to issues with safety and trust between partners. Whether our client is the individual or the relationship, our hope is to meet you where you are in your journey of healing. As we come alongside you, we hope to help you process your thoughts and feelings, develop boundaries, and restore healthy attachment.
Adoption/Foster Issues
Through the process of counseling, your child will increase a sense of safety, stability, and attachment. You and your child will also explore ways to understand your emotions, and utilize play, art, or story-telling as a means to express these emotions. In addition, counseling will walk your child through a grieving process, allowing him/her to acknowledge and grieve losses that are associated with the unique situation of adoption or fostering. Lastly, you as parents will gain understanding of the internal world of your child, learn tools to set healthy limits as well as find support during these trying times.
Spiritual Abuse
Spiritual abuse is a form of trauma that occurs when a Spiritual leader (clergy, minister, etc.) or a leader (parent, teacher, boss, etc.) implements spiritual constructs to manipulate, control, or take advantage in anyway of a person under his or her leadership or authority. This type of abuse damages the individual at their core self and can leave him or her spiritually disorganized and emotionally disconnected from the love of God. We can help you to heal from this trauma through validating the trauma and discovering the person God created you to be as well as help you re-establish a healthy relationship with God in your time.
Sand Tray Therapy
Sand tray therapy is a therapy often used to help children, adults, teens, couples, families, and groups explore their hurt from a psychological distance. This form of therapy allows for clients to find words and images for what often they cannot explain. It connects, mind, body, and heart and mind permitting clients to process and receive information in a nonthreatening manner providing opportunity to address trauma, resolve conflicts, and find acceptance so they may heal holistically.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a valid and widely researched, therapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and other adverse life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorders. Along with our Resources page, EMDRIA also offers a more thorough explanation for EMDR.
Codependency
Codependency is when an individual becomes a part of an unhealthy relationship in which he or she may enable addiction, abusive behaviors, and lose his or her identity. This can lead a person to lack boundaries, have a false sense of self and security, and feel a sense of responsibility for what is not his or her responsibility. Through counseling, we can help you discover your boundaries and re-establish a healthy relationship with self and others.
Let’s Have the Talk Power Point: This is a free resource to help you as a parent to know how to talk with your child about sex.
This is a free resource to help you as a parent to know how to talk with your child about sex.
Peri’s talk on the Simple Church podcast Parent Stuff.
Whitney’s most recent article with 318Forum: Mental Health with Mom and Babies in the Pandemic
Jennifer’s article with 318Forum: Tips with Tackling the Stress that Comes with the Holiday
Peri’s article in the Play Therapy Magazine with Association for Play Therapy: The Science of Play Therapy
Peri’s article with 318Forum: What Counseling is and is not