Mental Health
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Individual Counseling
Living a healthy and meaningful life can be a challenge when one has trouble keeping emotional, social, and professional experiences in balance. Proper mental health counseling can be very helpful to those who feel unsteady; to those who may be dealing with symptoms of depression, anxiety, or simply adjusting to significant changes in life circumstances. Optimal mental health improves how individuals feel, think, and act, often leading to better quality of life. Help is available, and at Lighthouse Counseling clients will be treated with support, dignity, and privacy.
Need more information before making a decision to engage with a mental health counselor?
Read here: Reasons Why Counseling Is So Important for Mental Health.
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Couple’s Counseling
We’ve found over the years of helping couples resolve relationship issues that the core problem is often one of communication. As time passes and couples grow more accustomed to one another, they often fail to communicate important concerns. We’ll tell clients, “if there’s a conversation that you decline to have because you believe you already know your partner’s response and want to avoid it, that’s the most important conversation to have.” Individuals in relationship need to feel safe to talk about anything at all without the fear of repercussions. If we can build intimacy – real, loving, deep awareness of who our partner is – then we can create a sense of safety in talking about difficult concerns.
Another aspect of couple’s counseling we’ve addressed is the reality that as couples mature and begin to expand the family (whether it’s pets, children, or otherwise), they may lose sight of the fact that they were a couple first. They may have forgotten that they need to take care of one another, too. We can help restore that kind of intimacy, as well; despite the passing of time, the core relationship remains.
Consider these thoughts as well: Should You Go Couples Therapy?
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Family Counseling
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Group Counseling
Group counseling can be as effective as and sometimes more effective than individual counseling. Problems like social anxiety, general or specific anxiety, depression, parenting or marital counseling, men’s and/or women’s issues, and even vocational counseling, can respond well to the group format. “Encounter groups” can help individuals work on improving sensitivity skills, building self esteem and increasing awareness of self. Groups vary in size, though they are normally no smaller than five people. We have found that especially since the pandemic peaked there has been a lot of interest in the group format. The greatest interest has been among young men and women making important transitions in their lives, either from high-school graduation to college or career, or college graduation to career or out of their childhood home. We would love to be able to help all these populations. Read more from the American Psychological Association here: https://www.apa.org/topics/psychotherapy/group-therapy
