- INDIVIDUAL:
- Opportunity to talk confidentially with a counselor about personal concerns
- Facilitate personal growth;
- Counselor and client work together to resolve conflicts;
- Specific, focused
- Issues presented by the client.
- COUPLES:
- Process of each clarifying what he/she wants in the relationship;
- Means of discovering ‘what’ you want in the relationship;
- Means of developing communication skills;
- Learning how to grow into an adult relationship.
- FAMILY:
- Familial relationships have had the most powerful affect on our lives;
- Each member identifies what he/she wants out of the process;
- Define what family means to each member; what they want their family to be;
- Most effective with teens or mature children, rather than young children;
- Means of developing communication between family members.
- GROUP (Group Sessions that address trauma, anger, self-worth/value will begin in Spring 2018)
- Simultaneous interaction with people typically outside the client’s social and familial network;
- Homogeneous: similar issues;
- Heterogeneous: diverse backgrounds and concerns;
- Looking at the dynamics, here and now;
- Examines current issues in members lives;
- Interaction of group members reveals dynamics emerged from other relationships; opportunity to learn about yourself in relationship to others.
- Benefits of Group Therapy:
- helps one understand interactions;
- elicits response from members about behaviors; and
- helps one initiate correction in interaction through insights.
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