Services

The mission of Abounding Hope Counseling is to provide high-quality therapy services to individuals and families who are experiencing emotional or psychological difficulties. Whether you're navigating school issues, emotional regulation, or life transitions, you'll work with someone who understands. Let's work together to restore or build more hope and joy for your journey through this gift we call, life.  

You can expect a therapeutic approach that blends client-centered methods with evidence-based practices, including Play Therapy, Theraplay, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Acceptance Commitment Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy and elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy.  If you have questions about a specific therapy model, please do not hesitate to ask.  

Our first meeting will focus on gathering pertinent information, determining a 'good fit' for working together, and formulating your personal therapy goals.  

As children grow into adolescents, they are developmentally unique with continued brain maturation and constantly in the process of discovering the social skills and emotional intelligence necessary to lead healthy, happy lives. Impulse control, decision-making, emotional regulation and peer influences are real struggles.  Teens might be avoidant or resistant, participating in therapy at a parent's request, making engagement a key challenge in adolescent therapy.  

In working with teens an emphasis on building rapport and trust while processing feelings and experiences with traditional talk therapy is effective.  However, therapies that allow teens to express themselves non-verbally are also often used since some may find it difficult to articulate feelings. 

Transitioning from adolescence into adulthood can be an overwhelming phase of life.  Expectations to be independent and successful are met with the reality of responsibility.  Giving young adults goal direction and hope for their future through processing their adjustment to adult life is the purpose of counseling this group of future leaders, caregivers and overall good citizens.

Adults are faced with many issues as life progresses.  In working with adults, identifying and processing through struggles, and actively seeking solution-focused goals is important for progress.  Adult clients should expect to be actively involved in developing their plan of treatment and taking ownership of their goals and progress.