Therapy Services
At Growing Clarity Counseling, we draw upon a variety of evidence-based therapeutic modalities, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment (ACT), Internal Family Systems, Play Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Person-Centered Therapy. Each modality is personalized to fit each clients' needs.
“Growth occurs when individuals confront problems,
struggle to master them, and through that struggle
develop new aspects of their skills, capacities,
views about life.”
- Carl Rogers
Individual Therapy
Individual counseling, or talk therapy, is when a therapist works one-on-one with a client to help them work through their issues and each session is catered to the client's needs. These sessions may include:
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Working towards change
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Developing trusting relationships
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Increasing self-awareness
This can be achieved by exploring the client's feelings, behaviors, emotions, and beliefs. During the sessions, therapists will also identify areas of the client's life that could be improved by setting attainable goals.
Play Therapy
A therapist will use play therapy as a way to help children, adolescents and even teens express their emotions, thoughts, and experiences in a non-threatening and supportive environment. Play becomes the form in which these clients communicate that which is hard for them to express.
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The Focus Points of Play Therapy:
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Using a Child-centered Approach
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Having a Therapeutic Playroom
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The Interpretation of Play
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Building a Trusting Relationship
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This allows the therapist to observe and interpret a child's behavior based on how they play, which toys they use, what a child's play represents, and how much a child will trust the therapist to explain what is bothering them.
Teen Therapy
The teenage years are a time of transition for every adolescent, so Teen Therapy is very individualized based on the stressors in the clients' life. During this time, teenagers face a wide range of issues from academic, social connections, technology, biological changes and developmental factors.
Adolescent Focused Individual Therapy, also known as AFT, is a therapy model that encourages the client to gain assertiveness, autonomy, self-efficacy and individuation. Completed successfully, a teenager will be able to identify themselves as and individual, separate from those of their same age. They will learn about their personal wants and needs and how to speak up for themselves. They will also learn about how their interactions with others affect their mental health and their own choices.
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Couples & Family Therapy
Our interpersonal relationships are affected by our actions and behavior just as our behavior is affected by what occurs in our relationship. Although couples and family therapy experiences are, on average, brief, these sessions can treat a range of serious clinical problems with quite a bit of success. Because this type of therapy is short term, with a specific problem in mind, it remains solution-focused ​which helps the couple create real attainable goals that will help build strength​ and trust within the family dynamic. It can also help open up communication paths and coping skills that will help families handle the future problems that may arise.
Trauma Therapy
Trauma-informed care, or trauma therapy, is used to help clients who have suffered from emotional or mental effects of traumatic events. Trauma is defined as when a person experiences an event that is very frightening, stressful, and so distressing that we find it difficult to cope with these experiences and where our reactions to this event are out of our own control. This event can happen just once or multiple times; over a long period time or all at once.
Most everyone will experience some form of trauma in their lifetime, but everyone's response to trauma is different.
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The most important thing to understand is that trauma is personal. Others cannot understand the way an event may be traumatic to you and not them, especially if they were a part of the same experience, because trauma is specific to your own mind and how it accepts the events that occured.
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Some things that can cause trauma in people are feeling frightened, trapped, powerless, abandoned, rejected, humiliated, ashamed, threatened and invalidated. This can happen by witnessing harm done to someone else, being directly harmed, living in a dangerous environment, being neglected, and even through generational trauma which happened to your family or community before you were born and has altered how they interact with you.
Skills Coaching
Skills coaching can look a little different from therapy in that it is more of a hands on way of making adjustments in your life. This is a process that we use to help clients gain skills that they need to help them succeed. Whether the adjustments need to be made for personal or professional sections of a client's life, our therapists can identify the strengths and weaknesses, set actionable goals, show our clients the real-world applications of these new skills and offer our support during the adjustment period.
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Some of these new skills include: Emotional Intelligence, Financial Literacy, Coping with Stress, Decision Making, Time Management, Communication, Conflict Resolution and Resilience.
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Once a client has gained these skills, they can be confident in all aspects of their daily lives.
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