Cognitive-behavioral therapy for your mental health needs.
Is Counseling Therapy For You?
No matter how hard you work, how successful you have been or what you have accomplished, you can still have problems. Emotional pain and mental health issues do not discriminate. If you are not feeling like your best self and are tired of faking your smile and pretending everything is great when it is not, you are not alone.
Ignoring it and hoping it will go away, doesn’t work. We have the tools you need. Cognitive-behavioral therapy can help. Whether it is something going on within you or situations in your life that are causing this feeling of uneasiness, we can work together to resolve it and you can feel like yourself again. If you are ready to focus your strong work ethic into working on yourself, counseling therapy is for you.
You are ready and it is time!
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)?
Cognitive-behavioral therapy or CBT for short, is a form of talk therapy. Unlike other forms of talk therapy where the therapist only passively listens, CBT includes teaching coping skills to help regulate emotions, improve relationships and solve problems to help you improve your mental health and meet your therapy goals. Clients work with their therapist to identify unhealthy thought and behavior patterns that are keeping them stuck and change them to thoughts and behaviors that are helpful, realistic and effective. Some coping skills include calming skills, challenging thoughts, safety plans, assertiveness, communication, interpersonal skills, and mindfulness.
What Can Counseling Therapy Help With?
Self-Esteem.
The way you feel about yourself affects everything you do from the way you walk into a room, to your mental health, to the jobs you go for and the relationships you are in. We aren’t just talking about the way you feel about your appearance either. Self-esteem is about how you talk to yourself about yourself. Your self-esteem has a substantial impact on your life. Counseling therapy can help improve the relationship you have with yourself, so that all of the other areas in your life can improve as well.
Depression.
Find that spark of joy again. Depression is not just feeling sad. It robs you of energy, motivation, and the ability to feel pleasure. At times, it can make it hard to feel anything at all. Sometimes, you know why you are depressed and sometimes you don’t. Either way, counseling therapy can help you find the tools you need to overcome depression and feel like your best self.
Stress & Anxiety.
Become that zen person you never thought you could be. If you struggle with overwhelm, panic attacks, social anxiety, or some other form of stress and anxiety, you know how awful it feels and how much it can hold you back from living a life you love. Counseling therapy is a great way get the tools you need to find the inner peace you long for.
Trauma.
Reclaim your peace of mind. Trauma can impact your well being, even if you are not aware that it is. It does not matter if you experienced one traumatic event or many, if it was recent or buried in your past, you can heal. Counseling therapy is a great way to make peace with your past, so that you can have peace of mind.
Relationships.
Have the loving and fulfilling relationships that you want. Unsure if this relationship is going to work out? Wondering why the same thing keeps happening in all of your relationships? Feel like you are getting taken advantage of in your relationships? Whether it is the relationship with a romantic partner, friends, family or coworkers, relationships can be stressful. Counseling therapy can give you the tools you need to thrive in all of your relationships.
Loss.
Heal your heart. Loss comes in many different shapes and sizes. You can experience grief after a break up, loss of a job, a pandemic or the death of a loved one. Each loss comes with its own pain. Counseling therapy can help you move through your grief in healthy ways.
Chronic Pain.
Free yourself from the shackles of chronic pain. When you suffer from chronic pain it takes a toll on every part of your life. Your brain is a powerful participant in your pain. Counseling therapy can help you manage the pain better and improve your quality of life, even with the pain. Learn to train your mind to manage the pain and get back the parts of your life you were missing.
Insomnia.
Catch those elusive zzzzs. Have you found yourself tossing and turning at night, frustrated because you can’t get a good night’s sleep? Do you find yourself lying awake for hours stressed out that you will not be rested and have enough energy to do everything you need to do the next day? You may be surprised to know that counseling therapy can help with that, too!
Can counseling therapy really help me?
“I have had the pleasure and privilege of guiding many people who feel the way you do to become the heroes of their life story. They became empowered to overcome their problems and enjoy the life they have worked so hard for. Many of my clients have been able to revise the way they see all aspects of their life story and have even been able to see the most painful events of their life, as opportunities for growth and strength. They are no longer held prisoner to their emotions or past problematic patterns of thinking and behaving. Although, they are unable to change the events of their past, they are able to narrate their life story so they are the hero instead of the victim and they can create that happily ever after ending they have been looking for.”
-Michelle Palacios, LPC-S, BCC
What is the process?
Assessment.
We begin by gathering information from you. Starting with your 15-minute phone consult, where we assess whether or not we are a good fit for your goals, to the detailed intake questionnaire, to the initial meeting and each sessions all the way through the the end of therapy, we will be assessing to determine the best course of action for your treatment.
Skill Building.
We use a form of talk therapy called cognitive-behavioral therapy combined with knowledge of neuroscience to help you reach your therapy goals. Rather than just listening, we will show you how to change your thought and behavior patterns that keep you from reaching your goals to thoughts and behaviors that work. You will learn a variety of strategies proven by research such as how to calm yourself, communicate effectively, change your perspective, and more. You will have homework to do in between sessions.
Practice.
With anything new that you learn, you must practice it to master it. During this phase we put together everything that you have learned and you practice applying it to your real-life experiences. We refine and clarify how to implement the skills you learned as well as problem solve when you get stuck.
Maintenance.
During this phase, we will likely decrease session frequency and see how you manage with less support. Our ultimate goal is to get you to such a healthy place that you no longer need us. We will continue to monitor and make sure you are making and maintaining progress. Once you have reached all of your treatment goals and can maintain them for a significant amount of time with minimal support from us, we will decide to either terminate services or move you to visits on an as-needed basis.
How much does it cost?
Imagine, finally having the peace of mind, confidence or relationships you have been looking for. Getting better requires commitment from you to take a chance and do things differently. If you knew how to fix it on your own, you wouldn’t be where you are at now. You have to be willing to invest in yourself, in order to create the lasting changes you are looking for. Are you ready to commit to learning about yourself and how to make healthy changes that will positively benefit your life? The benefits of investing in yourself, your well being and your quality of life overall are priceless.
Sessions are $150 per 45-minute session.
You may use a credit or debit card to pay for sessions.
You can use your HSA or FSA card to pay for the sessions..
You may be able to use your health insurance benefits and get reimbursed. Although, we are not an in-network provider for insurance, you may be surprised at how inexpensive it can be if you utilize your out-of-network benefits. Unsure of what your benefits are? Fill out the Nirvana calculator below to find out!
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“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
— ANAIS NIN
Believe it or not, the way you feel is not because your friend did not acknowledge you. The way you feel is due to the thought you had about it. It is not the situation that causes you to feel an emotion, but your perception or the meaning you assign to it.