How Counseling Helps
Counseling is the process where mental health distresses are assessed, prevented, evaluated, and treated in a safe, supportive environment. It requires your active participation. As we partner together, you maintain control of the counseling process and decide what changes you want to make. Our counselor’s role is to walk beside you through active listening, exploration and support. You may need a few sessions or more depending on treatment goals—together you will create an effective treatment plan with our counselor.
Potential benefits of counseling include: significant reduction in feelings of distress, increased satisfaction in interpersonal relationships, better problem-solving and coping skills, and resolutions of specific problems. The outcome of counseling is different for everyone!
Common Reasons for Counseling
Our counseling services are designed to provide our clients with an integrated experience for mind, body, and spirit. Our counseling is designed to help you enhance your ability to cope across the continuum of life’s challenges and transitions.
Common concerns addressed by our counseling services include:
- Stress related to health challenges
- Stress related to life transitions
- Stress related to social and occupational roles (ex: feelings of isolation, loss of a sense of purpose or identity, etc.)
- The impact of life’s challenges on family and close loved ones, sexual functioning/intimacy concerns, cognitive functioning, energy level
- Fears of possible future challenges and/or changes
- Sadness, depression, anxiety, loneliness, resentment, guilt, anger
- Adjustment to and coping with a “new normal” way of living
- Psycho-spiritual concerns (ex: concerns about mortality)
- Grief/bereavement
Life Transitions
A life transition is any adjustment that significantly impacts your life. While often exciting, this time can also be scary, exhausting and confusing. If you are facing retirement, a major move, job loss, empty nesting, or any other notable change in your life, Sea Glass Counseling Services is here to help.
Caregiver and Dementia Support
Navigating the world of caregiving and/or dementia is like speaking a different language. It can be overwhelming, exhausting and lonely. Luckily, Sea Glass Counseling Services is fluent in what it means to be a caregiver and/or an individual facing a chronic condition such as Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia. We have the tools and are ready to support.
Grief Support
Grief is the overall response to a loss, typically of a loved one. The grief experience can be extremely raw and surprisingly challenging. If we know how to suffer, we may actually suffer less. At Sea Glass Counseling Services, we can help safely unwrap your grief, process through it and begin healing the pain you may be feeling.
