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Individual Counseling

Life can be hard.  There are times when each of us needs the support and objective input of someone outside of our situations to offer feedback and valuable insight. When we are hurt by others or our own choices, our trust can be shaken in others, ourselves, and God.  Our emotions can conflict with our thoughts and what we know to be true. A compassionate counselor can walk alongside you for support and reflection that helps you to express your emotions and grow from life's challenges: 

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Anger
• Grief / Loss
• Boundaries in Relationships
• ​Christian Counseling
  
• Biblical Discernment
• Trauma 
• Codependency
• Career Change
• Stress
• Body Image / Food issues
• Clarifying Direction & Calling
• Recovering from Betrayal​
• Spiritual Confusion
• Miscarriage, Infertility, Baby Loss

Marriage Counseling

When our most important relationship is not right, nothing is right in our world. From the beginning, God said that it was not good for man to be alone. We were created to love and to be loved.  But our hearts can become wounded in the process... putting distance between us and our partners. We develop a dance of reactions to each other that keeps us from truly connecting.

A trained couples therapist can help you to reexamine how you and your spouse got here, how those wounds can be healed, and help to change patterns to restore connection and shared life. You can learn how to truly be there for each other and feel understood by the person who matters most to you. The longings of your heart can still be fulfilled by this love, and it can become all it was intended to be.

Premarital Counseling

If you are engaged to be married, the greatest investment you could make would be to learn more about your new spouse and marriage through premarital counseling. A Certified Prepare-Enrich counselor can Identify your unique strengths and recognize potential growth areas. 

Learn about how your presence is enough to meet the deepest needs of your partner. Recognize the patterns of disconnection that can develop and how to catch problems before they get too hard. Premarital counseling can strengthen your connection and make you better prepared for your future together. The benefits of a solid foundation for a lifelong marriage will be worth the effort.

Family Counseling

A family goes through many transitions over time, each with unique blessings and challenges. From births to deaths, each change demands adaption of roles & relationships. Giving children enough attachment security, along with loving limits is a difficult challenge, but so vital in helping them to grow into healthy adults capable of living abundant lives with rich relationships. In our roles as parents, children and siblings, these relationships matter and can often need help navigating: 

• New Marriages
• Newborn Children
• Parenting Issues
• Launching/ Letting Go of Adult Children
• Extended family
• Aging Parents
• Conflicts
• Boundaries
• Coping with Effects of Divorce

Adolescents & Children 

Like adults, children have challenges to face.  There are times when they need a little help meeting the demands of school, social struggles, or adjusting to family changes.  At times kids avoid sharing concerns with parents out of protection for parents' feelings, or even because of their own developmental need to grow in independence from them. A supportive counselor can provide a safe environment to give kids the freedom to explore difficult issues such as:

• Separation Anxiety
• School focus (ADHD)
• Coping with Divorce
• Coping with Death
• Adjusting to change in school
• Social Isolation
• Withdrawal from Family
• Bullying
• Dealing with Family Conflict
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Stress
• Anger

Betrayal Recovery

Have you had your world shattered by news of a betrayal from someone you trust? Learning that there has been a reality outside of your awareness can shatter your soul. You may have missed cues because your mind needed to maintain the only truth you could handle, that went along with the life you wanted to have. You may find yourself vacillating between focusing on the good and wondering if the bad is bad enough to address? That can feel like too much of a risk to take.

Counseling can be a safe place to work through all of the conflicted thoughts you have spinning in your head. You can reprocess traumatic memories and learn to trust yourself again. Find the support you need to restore hope for your future, even if you cannot see it yet. 

Grief Counseling

Loss is painful, and healing can be a long process. Do you wonder how God could allow your heart to be broken? Grief can lead to deeper questions and spiritual confusion.  

Lonliness comes when our friends and family find it hard to relate to us in that dark place. But you are not alone. Others have walked through the valley you are in and found healing and restoration on the other side. This black hole can actually be a tunnel with hope and light in your future if you can process your grief and let it do it's work. God is able to bring beauty from these ashes. The first small step is to begin to believe it is possible for you.

Ministry Leaders

Is your life devoted to ministering to the needs of others? Do you expect more from yourself than you can possibly do? If so, it is easy to burn out, depleting yourself and the resources you need in order to continue giving all that you are passionate to provide to others. You may struggle to accept your own limitations and need help remembering that God's strength is best found in our weakness.

Church leaders can feel guarded about being vulnerable, afraid to discourage others with their own struggles. But that can leave them isolated and lacking in relationships where they can lay down their burdens and be encouraged. As much as anyone, they need to be able to confide in others who are safe and work through stuck places.

​Find restoration for your soul by learning how to take responsibility for your own heart and resources, refilling your reserves so that the living water within you can be poured out again and again to those who depend on you. 

Codependency

Are you watching someone you love give their life over to an addiction that is robbing them of everything valuable and destroying your relationship with them? It is hard to know how to love family and friends who are spiraling down with addiction and seeking more and more help from you. When is it right to help, and when does your help actually hurt by blocking them from truly healing? What does God have to say about sacrificially loving others while setting limits that are ultimately for their good and for yours? Find support and help in determining how much to give and when to set limits. 

Addictions

Do you have a habit that is making your life unmanageable?  Do you wonder if you are on a path that is not where you want to end up? Do you feel helpless to stop? 
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Dealing with addictions is exhausting, repeating patterns that are never enough to change the problem. Any of us can get caught in destructive patterns, but there is hope. With help you can start to identify how you might be contributing to the cycle of addiction, and find new strategies which can help. Working with a licensed counselor and possibly finding a support group can give the support needed to break the bonds of addiction and bring freedom and relief.