SERVICES PROVIDED
INDIVIDUAL
Individual sessions are designed to help clients unlock their inner potential for healing and growth. This is done through looking at client’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. I trust that each person can become the person they would like to be when they are in an accepting environment, which fosters authentic acceptance of self and desired change to occur outside of session.
FAMILY
Sometimes concerns may arise that need to be addressed as a family unit. Whether it is an individual or group concern, family therapy provides clients with structure, guidance, and a team approach to create a strong working family unit.
PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP TRAINING
Parent-Child Relationship Training allows parents to learn basic play therapy techniques. As parents learn these techniques they can start implementing the skills into their daily interactions with their child, which can help with a variety of presenting concerns, such as aggression, behavioral outbursts, ADHD, and depression. Parent-Child Relationship Training is proven effective to enhance the parent-child relationship while improving a child’s overall wellbeing.
PLAY THERAPY
Most children are not developmentally able to verbalize their concerns. Play therapy allows children to express themselves in a natural manner to them. The toys in the playroom serve as a child’s means of communication or “words” and their play is their “conversation”. Through meeting the child on their developmental level, the therapist can see into the child’s world to better help them understand their current thoughts and feelings.
ACTIVITY BASED THERAPY
Activity based therapy can range from art, music, sports, to other therapeutic activities that the therapist brings in based on the client’s needs. Activity based therapy allows children, adolescents, and teens to explore their presenting concerns from a different perspective. Activity based therapy is a more direct form of therapy to assist client’s in finding personalized solutions to the concerns currently affecting their lives.
EATING DISORDER SUPPORT GROUP FOR TEENS and young adults
Weekly open process support group discussing crucial topics for eating disorder recovery, such as negative body image, self worth, eating disorder rules and rigidity, and intuitive eating. In group successes and struggles of recovery are discussed while receiving encouragement from peers who are in a similar situation. This group is especially helpful for those transitioning from a higher level of care who are wanting continued group support in the outpatient setting.
Teen/Young Adult Group is run by Kelsey Haka, LPC-S
Adolescent/Teen Group is run by Olivia McDonald, LMSW
LPC-Associate Supervision/Play therapy supervision
Kelsey Haka MS, LPC-Supervisor, RPT-Supervisor offers individual, dyadic and group supervision to LPC-Associates getting their licensure hours or clinicians working toward their play therapy credential. Kelsey supervises those who are working in private practice, hospitals, schools and agencies. Kelsey is passionate about creating a strong working relationship and helping new therapists establish confidence in their work with clients.
PUBLIC SPEAKING
We are passionate about bringing awareness and education to the public regarding play therapy, enhancing parent-child relationships, eating disorders, utilizing faith in our mental health story and general mental health. We have presented to a variety of audiences where we tailor our presentation to the distinct needs of the audience providing practical takeaways that they can use in their everyday life. Public speaking requests can be submitted through the contact form on the contact page or requested at 972-754-8340.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Therapy can be intimidating, especially if you have never seen it before. We want to walk you through what you can expect to hopefully ease some of those nerves.
Step 1: Phone Consultation
This is a free 15-minute phone consultation that will let us introduce ourselves, hear briefly about what brings you in and make sure it feels like a good fit before we meet in person.
Step 2: Initial Appointment
Our first appointment, whether me meet in person or virtual, is to gain a deeper understanding of what brings you in, hear more background and create goals for therapy to ensure we are providing the type of support you are looking for.
Step 3: From There
We will decide together what frequency of counseling works best for you (once a week, every other week, monthly, or something else). We want to individualize your therapy experience based on your needs. Each individual session lasts 50 minutes. If your child or teen is coming to therapy, we will discuss frequency of parent checks ins or what we call parent consultation sessions, so you are in the loop with their therapy process and learn skills to use at home to help your child.