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Services
Counseling
Services
Counselors
and psychotherapists assist adults and children in maintaining healthy and
rewarding relationships with other people and themselves. Therapists help the people they work with
decide what choices make the most sense in their lives. Our goal is to help the people we work with
discover and develop their own internal resources to lead more satisfying
lives.
Having
a positive experience in therapy can be life changing. In the same way everyone needs a good
dentist, we hope that you find a therapist you work well with too.
In
California, the therapists who assist in difficulties with relationships earn
the license of “Marriage and Family Therapist.”
Individual
Therapy
Talk
therapy can be an effective way to address some of the difficulties in
life. Therapy sessions are typically
50 minutes long once or more weekly.
Therapy can be useful in a multitude of seasons, whether you are
looking for a romantic partner, parenting children, transitioning through
divorce, wrestling with depression or anxiety, grieving a loss, feeling
overwhelmed, or not feeling very much at all.
Couples
Counseling
Being
in a committed relationship can be rewarding and exasperating. Counseling for the couple can be a way to
help improve communication skills and examine underlying unhelpful
patterns. If you do not have a
therapist for your relationship yet, we would encourage you to contact
someone; the most frequent complaint of relationships in trouble is that they
waited too long to seek assistance.
Family
Therapy
Sometimes there are issues that affect the entire
family system for which people seek therapeutic help. Coming for therapy as a
family allows the family members to develop communications skills, to break
out of unhealthy patterns, to deepen understanding of themselves and other
family members, and to repair relationships that may have become difficult
within the family over time.
Group
Therapy
Another effective psychotherapy involves
treating a small number of clients (4-8) together as a group. This context can be a powerful environment
for change, development, self-examination and development of interpersonal
skills. You may choose to
join group therapy to supplement your primary therapy, to give you additional
support, or as the sole component of your healing work. No matter what
it is that you want to address in therapy, group therapy allows you the
opportunity to share your healing journey and experiences with other members.
Many attending group therapy report that it is a way to know that they “are
not alone” and that there are others, with similar experiences, who can be
supportive of them.
Child
Therapy
Our
children can be the most precious gems, and the reason we act out in
frustration. Parenting books, classes,
and techniques can be extremely helpful in helping find a style of
discipline, but therapy can help shift a child’s view of themselves and
fundamentally change their relationship to other people and the world. Therapy with children is different than
with adults; children operate in the present and communicate through
metaphors of play and art. Counselors
work with parents and children to help a child move through grief, deal with
divorce, ease anxieties about school or friends, and help heal unhealthy
patterns before they become part of an adult personality.
Counseling
for Teens
Adolescents
go through a tremendous physical and emotional change as they move from
childhood and into young adulthood;.
Therapy can provide a space away from friends and family for teens to
find themselves as well as a way to make meaning of their experience.
Where
We Help
People
frequently benefit from counseling when they are looking for assistance in
dealing with:
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depression – feelings of sadness, worthlessness,
post-partum struggles
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anxiety – feeling worried or overwhelmed
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communication problems
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relationship skills
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anger management
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self esteem
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grief and loss
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life transitions
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loneliness
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parenting or discipline skills
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children’s issues
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setting healthy boundaries and limits
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career problems
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spiritual issues
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domestic violence
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trauma or abuse recovery
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addiction – whether alcohol, marijuana or the Internet
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couples issues
Alta Mira Counseling is not a sole proprietorship, a
partnership, a professional counseling corporation, or any other type of
business entity, but rather a group of licensed practitioners who have joined
together for advertising purposes only.
Each of these practitioners operates his or her own private practice
and does not share revenue with the other practitioners.
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