Individual & Family Therapy
Empowerment from within.
Therapy works to empower clients from within. We offer client-centered individual and family therapy services for adults, adolescents, children and their families in person and via a secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth platform. Our telehealth services are open to all residents of West Virginia and Virginia.
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
In individual therapy, treatment is done on a one-on-one basis and the process is tailored to the client’s unique needs. Individual therapy allows the therapist and the client to work together to process strong emotions, develop coping skills, explore thinking patterns, examine behaviors, and reduce negative symptoms related to mental health. We provide individual therapy services to children, adolescents and adults.
Research has demonstrated that children and adolescents benefit most from therapy when a parent or caregiver is involved. Utilizing a more holistic approach, parents and caregivers learn how to support and help their child at home by reinforcing and practicing skills, providing prompts or reminders, and listening. Parents and caregivers are also an invaluable source of information to inform treatment plans. Children and adolescents spend most of their time with parents and caregivers. It is in these opportunities that parents and caregivers can help implement therapeutic interventions in the home and community environments.
FAMILY THERAPY
Family therapy works with the family unit to improve communication, resolve conflicts, set healthy boundaries, clarify roles and responsibilities, promote understanding, and increase functioning in the family unit. The therapist works with the family to set individual and family goals to reduce stress and conflict through the improvement of interactions between family members.
Family therapy may include all family members or it may only include those willing and/or able to participate. It’s important to note that family therapy does not need to be restricted to a nuclear family. Other family members that may participate can also include grandparents, aunts, uncles, domestic partners, and more. Common reasons for family therapy may include, but are not limited to, trauma, incarceration, abuse, neglect, grief, separation, divorce, domestic violence, parental conflict, and parent-child conflict.
Individual and family therapy can help teach skills that deepen connections and relationships, solve problems, handle special situations, teach skills to get through stressful times, improve functioning, and increase and maintain healthy functioning relationships.