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MENDING HEARTS COUNSELING

Counseling Services:

When a crisis presents itself to an adult, child, couple or family, the whole system is affected. The danger is recognized by all, along with its potential damage to destroy lives. The opportunities presented by a crisis may be more challenging to uncover. Crisis often brings pain, pain that can produce growth. Turning a crisis into an opportunity often requires professional help. It is Mending Hearts Family Services’ objective to provide this kind of help.

Our licensed therapists are skilled in Trauma Informed CBT, EMDR, Play Therapy, Art Therapy, EFT, and Expressive Arts Therapy. We are experienced in working with adoptees, foster children, adoptive /blended families, veterans, first responders, divorce issues, domestic violence, and co-dependence.

Children/Teens Counseling: To provide therapy to children and teens suffering from various stresses within their culture and environment.

Mending Hearts Family Services works with children and teens from Birth to age18 who suffer from ADHD, attachment issues, neglect, emotional, physical and sexual abuse, acute and complex trauma, grief/loss, anger, identity issues, etc. Mending Hearts Family Services provides counseling to children/teens who are impacted by single parenting, adoption, foster care, or divorce. The agency does not provide child custody evaluations for divorcing parents or parents who are disputing custody of their minor children.

Individual Counseling: To provide individual counseling to adults experiencing various stressors within their culture and environment.

Mending Hearts Family Services provides general mental health counseling to adults who may be experiencing addiction, anxiety, depression, and/or stress due to a specific situation, circumstance, crisis, neglect, emotional, physical and sexual abuse, acute and complex trauma.

Adoptive/Foster/Blended Families: To provide education and counseling services for families created by adoption, foster care, or re-marriage.

Mending Hearts Family Services works with families who were created through adoption, foster care, or re-marriage. Some of the issues that can be addressed are role definition, entitlement, claiming, attachment, separation and loss, as well as sorting out loyalties, identity issues and family of origin issues.

Addiction Counseling: To provide counseling for individuals (adults and teenagers) and families who desire to recover from an addiction and/or co-dependency.

Mending Hearts Family Services works with many addictions and co-occurring disorders (anxiety, depression, grief, bi-polar disorder, and schizophrenia): alcohol, substance abuse, gambling, pornography, sexual abuse, food, and others. A relapse prevention plan is a part of the counseling process. The family system is also affected by addiction. Mending Hearts Family Services provides family therapy and psychoeducation to all family members as needed. Referrals to groups and/or other community resources are provided as needed.

Parent/Child Relationships: To provide counseling and education for families having difficulty parenting their children or teens.

This service may involve family therapy, couple or individual counseling. Mending Hearts Family Services periodically offers parenting classes on an as needed basis.

Grief/Loss Counseling: To provide counseling to children and adults who are facing loss.

Mending Hearts Family Services’ licensed therapists have expertise in working with individuals and families who are experiencing separation and loss. Some examples of grief/loss may include death, divorce, loss of a pet, infertility, job loss, miscarriage, abortion, multiple moves, abandonment, abuse, neglect, and voluntary or involuntary foster care placements. Keep in mind that grief can encompass any kind of loss or major life changes that affect the person’s quality of life.

Marriage Counseling: To provide marriage counseling to couples in crisis.

Marriage counseling may also be called Couples Therapy. Marriage counseling is based on research that individuals and their problems are best handled within the context of their relationships. The marriage counselor works to help the couple understand that, in most cases, both partners are contributing to the issues in the relationship. Then from a Biblical perspective and a Chrisitan worldview, the two can learn how to change the way they interact with each other and truly resolve their problems.