Individual Counseling
Therapy can be a reflective and transformative time to focus on yourself, your relationships, your strengths, and areas of exploration. Our treatment focus allows an individual to explore their roots and guide them through their own journey to their aspired destination. Our core belief is to collaborate with clients to focus on personal and relational growth, healing, and emotional wellness & development.
Individual therapy may address:
Anxiety, depression, and trauma
Communication and conflict resolution
Life transitions and life balance
Grief and loss
Medical and health concerns
Addiction and recovery
Stress management
Work and career issues
Family & Couples Counseling
Relationships are complex. As we progress through life and learn lessons along our journey, growing as individuals may not involve the same pathways in our relationships, partnerships, and family units. Growing together in relationships and family dynamics requires strong communication skills while working through hardships in an open and honest space.
In relational counseling, we provide a safe and efficient platform to focus on fostering connection and trust, while building communication and problem-solving skills. While therapy may improve distressed relationships, some couples choose to attend therapy to enhance the current relationship and to better understand each other on a deeper level to amplify the established commitment and connection with each other.
Child & Adolescent Therapy
Life has challenges in all stages of this journey. It can be difficult for young children and adolescents to match words to their feelings and experiences. We provide a therapeutic, safe, and open space to allow young people to explore and express themselves to help them face issues and problems they may face.
Child and adolescent therapy may include:
Depression and anxiety
Divorce and separation and loss
Trauma and grief
Physical, emotional, and sexual abuse
Neglect
Self-injury
Behavioral issues, anger management, and impulse control
Positive coping skills
School issues
Social concerns
Substance Use
Substance use can take a toll on various aspects of a person’s life, including overall health, relationships, financial stability, legal issues, and a career. It may feel overwhelming to take the first steps toward recovery, but we are here to walk you through the process and provide light through your path.
Here at Acorn Counseling, we understand that substance use can be a difficult and complex obstacle to tackle, but we are here to help you navigate treatment. Out goal is to provide you with the support and tools you need to overcome addiction and achieve & maintain long-term recovery. In helping people overcome addiction, we take a multi-dimensional approach and provide the following services:
Risk-education
Outpatient services
Intensive outpatient services
Smart recovery (open to the public)
DUI Evaluations
DUI services to re-obtain license
Anger Management
Anger management does not involve getting rid of all anger, but using anger to enhance your life. We can look at the purposes of anger in both positive and negative light. The positive aspects of anger are that you have increased energy, are able to communicate your feelings, able to problem solve and can take charge of the situation. The negative aspects of anger are that you can have disruption of your thinking, unnecessarily defend yourself, become aggressive and become known as an angry person. Anger management would be seen then as increasing the positive aspects or functions of anger and decreasing the negative functions of anger.
8 Week Anger Management Course
Week 1 - Introduction to the problem and types of Anger
Week 2 - What is GOOD about Anger?
Week 3 - Defusing Anger by managing stress
Week 4 - Handling Anger effectively; Anger and Assertiveness
Week 5 - Managing conflict; When to take a time-out
Week 6 - Turn your Anger into forgiveness
Week 7 - Plan to change your life by changing your thinking
Week 8 - How emotional intelligence impacts Anger; Building healthy relationships
Marriage Preparation
Marriage preparation is an educational and psycho therapeutic process were a couple accesses the relationship drinks and challenges we believe marriage preparation is a powerful investment that doesn’t just focus on longevity of marriage but also on building is fulfilling, intimate and close relationship that enriches the lives of both partners.
Marriage preparation provides couples with the opportunity to take a candid look at the relationship and future together. Couples often consider future plans such as roles within the relationship, planned family planning, financial strategizing, communication style, and family history.
Our practice offers certified facilitators in prepare/enrich, which is a research based assessment tool that quickly and effectively identifies a couple strengths along with areas of needed growth.
Prepare and enrichment of:
Strengths and areas of needed growth
Identity in managing major life stressors
Conflict resolution
Strengthening communication skills
Developing a more balanced relationship
Exploring family of origin issues
Financial planning and budgeting
Establishing personal, couple and family goals
Understand and Appreciate Differences
Grief Therapy
Couple therapy provides a safe and efficient platform, focusing on restoring connection and trust while improving communication and problem-solving. This can be a practical and effective means towards relational growth and healing. Often times, committed relationships experience difficult days and for some, those troubles reached a point where one or both partners are profoundly disappointed with their relationship. Not all couples choose to approach therapy only in times of distress. Some choose to participate in couples therapy in order to enhance their current relationship.
While working with couples we focus on creating a therapeutic environment in order to reach honesty intimacy connection and communication.
Clinical Supervision
We provide clinical supervision for counselors working toward obtaining their licensure. Learning how to provide the best care for your clients can be challenging at times, and clinical supervision offers insight and support from an experienced provider.
Clinical Supervision may address:
Communication with clients
Addressing integrity and ethical guidelines of counseling
Boundaries of counselor/client role