It takes a huge amount of bravery to look at oneself and acknowledge a need for personal change. There are few things more worth the journey. Counseling services are available to anyone, although we specialize in providing therapeutic services to children aged 12 and up, teens, and families.
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy consists of 50-minute sessions that focus on creating practical change.
Specialties for individual therapy include:
- Working with members of the adoption triad
- Anxiety
- Personal development
Additional areas that we can help you with include:
- Chronic illness
- Feeling stuck - in life or in a relationship
- Emotional, physical, sexual, or spiritual abuse
- PTSD / trauma
- Grief and loss
- Career exploration
- Questions around purpose and calling
- Navigating transitions into adulthood
- Divorce
Family Counseling
Becoming Brave knows that when talking about individual healing, the whole environment matters. We will address the family system itself, to create a more supportive and enduring home environment for each individual member to thrive. Becoming Brave focuses on creating attachment and safety within the family unit so that each member can feel seen and heard. Whether you are struggling to connect with a teenager, enduring life transitions or just wanting to better connect, Becoming Brave will meet your family where they are to create change and connection.
Adoption Support
Becoming Brave brings a unique perspective to our practice, having both personal and professional experience in the field of adoption. Our work emphasizes the importance of the entire family system. With experience in international and domestic adoption, we have worked with all members of the adoption triad- adoptees, adoptive parents and adoptive siblings, and birth parents. In addition, we have extensive experience working with adoptees with special medical needs and their families. Becoming Brave is also available for consultation with other mental health professionals, regarding adoption-related issues.
Specialties include :
- Working with families prior to adoption
- Assessing and preparing parents to parent children and teens
- Post adoption support
- Attachment
- Trauma informed interventions
- Adoption related grief
Survivor Support
“Trauma creates change you don’t choose. Healing is about creating the change you do choose.” -Michelle Rosenthall
We have practiced with survivors of cancer, burn, medical trauma, human trafficking, and domestic abuse. Interventions focus on addressing common emotional responses to these challenges, including grief and loss, struggles with identity, anger, anxiety, depression, and others. In working with any survivor, we work with the individual to find ways to reclaim what has been lost and reframe traumatic events. Becoming Brave also works with individuals to process and find strategies to cope with the life-long impact that can result from such traumas. This may involve addressing impacts such as altered relationships, negative body image, infertility, or general quality of life.