Individual Therapy

Individual therapy, counseling, or psychotherapy involves meeting with the therapist one-on-one.  Some reasons you may seek individual therapy may include feelings of being trapped or alone, constant worry, crisis/ transition, depression, anxiety, recent divorce, and lack of motivation or ability to change.  If family members cannot help you find the answers or these feelings are affecting your job, relationships, sleep, or eating habits it may be time to seek help from a professional.  The goal of psychotherapy is to enhance self-awareness, empower the client, work towards desired change, and work through challenging life issues.  

Couples and Family Therapy

Couples/ Family Therapy is a form of psychotherapy which focuses on relationship distress and growth.  The purpose is to jointly identify the areas that are in need of evolution.  Some distressful situations can include, but are not exclusive to:  poor communication, work-life imbalance, financial distress, domestic violence, parenting, mental illness, depression and substance abuse. Shared work with the therapist will yield to development and implementation of a treatment plan that will allow your relationships to bloom again. The goal is to work towards alleviating discomfort and rebuilding a healthier level of collaboration and love.  

Adolescent and Child Therapy

GTSD uses a wide variety of techniques and methods in order to help children and adolescents who are experiencing difficulties with their emotions or behaviors.   In children and adolescents, playing, drawing, building, and pretending, as well as talking, are important ways of sharing feelings and resolving problems.  Psychotherapy helps children and adolescents in a variety of ways. They receive emotional support, resolve conflicts with people, understand feelings and problems, and try out new solutions to old problems.

"It seems that if I am afraid, then I am chained to the fear only so long as I am trying to get away from it.  On the other hand, when I do not try to get away I discover that there is nothing "stuck" or fixed about the reality of the moment."
~ Alan W. Watts