Services
Individual
Individual therapy can help people confront barriers that interfere with emotional and mental well-being, and it can also increase positive feelings such as compassion, self-esteem, love, courage, and peace.
Play Therapy
Play Therapy is defined by Association of Play Therapist (APT) as “the systematic use of a theoretical model to establish an interpersonal process wherein trained Play Therapists use the therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve psycho-social difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development".
Online Therapy
Tele-Therapy/Online Counseling (Telehealth therapy) increases accessibility for clients who lack adequate transportation or those who live in rural, remote areas. As long as a client has a way to connect to the internet, telehealth enables them to access mental health services.
Family Therapy & Co-Parenting
Focus on family dynamics to improve communication, healthy boundaries, and restore relationships. Co-parenting to help parents/family members confront barriers that interfere with parenting children and not create a hostel alliance between parents and child.
Mulit-Therapeutic Approach
Child centered, sand tray, dialectical-behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, solution-focused, trauma focused-cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness, as well as strength based.
We work with children preschool-aged and up as well as their families, young adults and couples
Families
Families benefit from therapy when experiencing stressful event that can put a strain on family relationships, such as financial hardship, divorce, parenting conflict, or the loss of a loved one. Families can experience the impact as a whole, when depression, substance abuse, chronic illness, and general stress affect family members. Encouraging Discovery can help families work to overcome everyday concerns, like communication problems, interpersonal conflict, or behavioral problems that prevent families from forming trusting relationships.
Children
Children experience a variety of complex emotions that can interfere with social and behavioral development. From infancy to middle school, a child responds to the world around then in different ways. Modeling after other kids their age, children can sometimes adopt negative or non-productive behaviors based on their environment. Encouraging Discovery offers therapy with deep knowledge in helping children thrive, avoid conflict, and grow to their fullest potential.
Adolescents
A successful therapeutic experience can be of immense value for helping adolescents improve relationships, recover from physical and mental trauma, or gain insight and perspective to realize their full potential. Teens become increasingly focused on friends. As they seek greater independence, they often come into conflict with parents. Most get through adolescents with few problems, established identities and preparing for adulthood. Some, however, experience problems that lead to dropping out of school, drug use or crime. Teens face more social pressures and anxiety than even before. Navigating Social Media, building friendships and developing positive family relationships are much harder to manage for adolescents than for adults.
Adults
Encouraging Discovery provides a confidential, non-judgmental, safe atmosphere, for clients to explore and address areas of challenge in their life. Providing a place for a client to grow and achieve their goals when social and emotional factors can affect many areas in their life. With the use of proactive tools, client and provider will develop a treatment plan to meet their therapy needs.
Teletherapy
During difficult times, maintaining your mental health is more important than ever that is why we offer convenient and flexible scheduling of video “tele-medicine” therapy sessions! We can connect to you from your home computer or smart device without complicated, special software or technical know-how.
Of course, your privacy is critical to our work. That’s why we can connect with you virtually any video calling app you are comfortable with, and you can rest easily knowing your sessions are just as secure as meeting with you face to face. Benefits of Tele-Health -No need to miss work or travel for an appointment – eliminates child or elder care barriers- less waiting time to see therapist.
Equine Assisted Psychotherapy
EAP is hands on psychotherapy that includes our equine friends. The goal of EAP is to assist clients in building basic life skills, improve social skills, and understand how to build healthy connections with the support of a licensed mental health professional and our equine friends using activities and our equine friends as a therapeutic guide and support. Discover the healing power of equine assisted psychotherapy for treating disorders like anxiety, depression, trauma, PTSD, and behavioral disorders. With the use of a combination of equine interaction and traditional therapy modalities, individuals can address emotional and physical symptoms impacting their daily life..