Addiction

Whether a family member’s or your own, an addiction can cause an overwhelming feeling of hopelessness. Whether the addiction is substances, eating, sex, or anything else, it serves a purpose - as a coping mechanism. Exploring the process surrounding the addiction can aid in understanding its origin and provide relief.

Groups

A Therapy Group is, for its members, a role model of what healthy relationships can be. Within this safe environment, the therapeutic community works together to challenge and support one another. We are gender sensitive, culturally aware, spiritually attuned, and practical. Whether you are in the process of exploring, understanding, or taking action, you’ll find you are not alone.

Spirituality

With so many conflicting opinions on religion and spirituality in our society, understanding and exploring one's own can be a painful and confusing journey. Often, messages received from outside don’t allow us to pursue our own quest for whatever we define as our higher power. Here, questions about personal spirituality are explored in a safe, un-judgmental atmosphere, encouraging one to discover one’s own connection without interference.

Anger/Fear

Although we live in the modern age of technology, logic, and rational thought, our primitive brain can sometimes control even our most basic decisions because our feelings have gone unacknowledged. As children, we are not taught to acknowledge our feelings of fear and anger, we are taught to ignore them. Through individual or group therapy, learning about and understanding these feelings can help us learn to live life from a position of possibility rather than fear or anger.

Trauma/Abuse

Sometimes trauma occurs from combat in war, fighting on the streets, being a victim of a crime, or from ones own family. In some cases, this creates Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Wherever the trauma began, anger and fear in a family can be transferred intergenerationally, from parent to child, to grandchild, etc. There is no one to blame for this - it is a natural process that occurs. However, if one decides to examine the process, one can break the cycle and choose a different way of being to pass along.

Adoption

Think of the relationship of adoptive parents, birth parents and the adopted child as points on a triangle. And while adoption is generally a satisfying experience, trauma does sometimes occur at one point or another of this “adoption triangle.” For the birth parents, feelings of loss; for the adoptive parents, feelings of grief at their inability to conceive; for the adoptee, no matter his/her age confusion. Acknowledgment of these feelings, each to the other, can bring understanding and relief.

Couples

Finding your significant other is a major achievement in life. When there is conflict in this important relationship, it is sometimes hard to see possiblity, and feel the positive emotions felt at the beginning of the relationship. Every-day responsibilities can get in the way. The way in which conflict is viewed in our society can make it seem like an impossible impass. Through understanding the emotional process, instead of the content (i.e.what the argument is about) , couples can recapure the love and understanding experienced in the beginning of the relationship.

Individuals

Sometimes it may feel like a storm going on inside of you. You may find yourself in a place where you feel all alone and different from everyone else. The feelings may seem paralizing. Unexpressed and unexplored emotion will bring any human to this place of confusion. Through exploration and understanding with a therapist, this place of hopelessness can turn into a place of possiblitiy.

Children

It may feel like your living with a little person that you don't understand and seems out of control. Or it may feel like your child isn't speaking with anyone - that they are responding to life in a way that doesn't get their needs met. As parents, we aren't taught how to reach our children when they seem unreachable. Through art, play, or talk therapy, a child will respond and open up. With the help of a good therapist's coaching, parents can begin to help their child on a path that works for both of them.

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