A service through which clients work one-on-one with a trained and qualified therapist to explore their feelings, beliefs, or behaviors to better understand themselves; and work through a wide variety of challenges, from coping with major life challenges or childhood trauma, to dealing with depression or anxiety, to simply desiring personal growth and greater self-knowledge. Clients identify aspects of their lives that they would like to change, set personal goals, and work toward the desired change. The client and therapist may work together for as few as five or six sessions, or as long as several years, depending on the client’s unique needs and personal goals for therapy.
Couples Therapy or Counseling is a service provided to help couples, married or not, recognize, gain deeper understandings, and resolve conflicts to improve their relationships. Marriage counseling gives clients the tools to engage in better communication, manage their differences, problem-solve, and even argue in healthier ways.
In addition to helping couples make mindful decisions about rebuilding their relationship, couples therapy also helps partners decide whether they would like to continue in their current relationship or go their separate ways, most ideally in an amicable way.
How long couples counseling takes depends on many factors which include the complexity of the issues and how dedicated each partner is to the agreed-upon goals. Ideally, couples meet once a week with the therapist, and the frequency gradually lessens as the couple becomes more independent in handling their concerns. It includes both partners, though, the therapist may also ask to see each partner separately during the course of the counseling process.
There are also times when one partner chooses to work with a therapist alone with regard to his/her relationship concerns. This allows for a possible gateway to eventually include the reluctant partner in the counseling process.
We have several types of services in Couples Therapy/Counseling:
Family counseling/therapy is a counseling service that involves all or most members of a family and, in some cases, members of the extended family (e.g., grandparents). The goal of family therapy is to help families with a variety of mental, emotional, psychological, behavioral, relational, and adjustment problems that impair and interfere with healthy family and social functioning. Therapists work towards improving family communication and conflict resolution skills, as well as helping family members understand and cope with family situations such as death, child and adolescent issues, step-family issues, and parenting issues.
Parenting is the most important and challenging job any of us can have, and children acquire the abilities to become responsible, caring adults from the people who are most intensely involved with them. Yet, parents receive little support or guidance in our society. There is very little formal training for this task and parents are often isolated and without adequate support networks. The parenting programs we hold at FMCC address these needs of parents in our community.
Support groups are organized and facilitated by professionals who do not share the members' problems. Professionals will be mental health practitioners such as psychologists, therapists, and counselors of various and relevant specialties and trainings to the targeted group. Examples of types of groups we intend to support include Parenting Support groups, Pre-marital Support groups, Marital Support groups, Teen Support groups, Abuse Victims Support groups, and Infant/Child Death Support Groups.
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