Session Formats

All first sessions are open and honest conversations about your goals and concerns. Our assessment session is to gauge the best course of treatment and collaborate with you in your therapeutic journey.

 
 
Individual Therapy Session Athena Counseling

Individuals

Individual psychotherapy opens a safe space for you to explore any aspect of your life, including relationships, self-confidence, motivation, stress management, and countless other issues. Here, you are guided to discover and express who you are and what you really think and — no matter how bold, or unconventional, free of expectations and judgement.

Couples Therapy Session Athena Counseling

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Recognizing that you need assistance in your relationship is the first step to healing, and a wonderful opportunity for profound growth and self-realization. Our couples therapy program helps you both focus and understand your unique selves, because only then can you know and understand your partner. Here, your therapist is an unbiased guide who’s priority is strengthening your union and rekindling kindness, compassion, and forgiveness in your relationship.

Group Therapy Session Athena Counseling

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In group therapy sessions, your therapist is a guide who helps your family or group become more aware of the subtle dynamics and circumstances at play in your relationships. This awareness can help you make more informed life choices, smooth continued tensions or power-struggles, and begin to resolve hidden wounds.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
— Carl Jung

Mental Health Concerns

We specialize in addressing:
Depression
Anxiety
Past Trauma
Unresolved Grief
Psychosis
Stress
Thought Distortion
Relationship Issues
LGBTQ+

 

Depression

Do you live with a weight that you can’t shake off? Does life seem gray and colorless? Drained of joy? Let’s talk. Together, we can paint life and breath back in.


Anxiety

Are you gripped by attacks of panic? Does life seem like at any moment it can come crashing in? Take a deep breath, you don’t have to keep it to yourself anymore. Let’s develop some skills that help you name and resolve sources of anxiety.


Unresolved Grief

Are you wounded? Have you lost a loved one so significant life isn’t the same without? We have too, and it hurts. Come, sit, tell us about them. Let us share the weight of loss with you.


Past Trauma

Your past and your trauma does not define you and it does not own you. We understand the perpetual struggle it is to overcome trauma. You are valued, and we want to help you see that too.


Thought Distortion

Do you have find yourself thinking or speaking in absolutes? Does everything seem to appear black and white? Over time our minds can begin to perpetuate these thoughts, and they usually reinforce negative thinking or emotions. Together, we can begin to dislodge these thoughts and restore a more rational, positive state of mind.


Psychosis

Do you find yourself with an impaired relationship with reality? Have you had trouble thinking clearly or been burdened with confusing emotions or no emotion at all? It’s alright, come talk, let’s begin to unravel it all, together.


Relation-ship Issues

Do you find you and your significant other consistently at odds with one another? Does it seem like one disagreement leads to another? Let’s meet altogether, and restore a healthy and mutually beneficial relationship between you and your loved one.


LGBTQ

We offer support and therapy to all members of the LGBTQ community. You are valued and you are loved. If there’s anything you want to talk about, we’re here for you. This is a safe space.

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Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
— Brené Brown

Therapy Methods

 

Acceptance commitment therapy

This is a form of counseling and a branch of clinical behavior analysis. It is an empirically-based psychological intervention that uses acceptance in different ways with commitment and behavior-change strategies to increase psychological flexibility.

 

mindfulness Cognitive Therapy

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is an approach to psychotherapy that uses cognitive behavioral therapy methods in collaboration with mindfulness meditative practices and similar psychological strategies.

 

Client Driven Therapy

Client-driven therapy is a semi-structured style of psychotherapy which guides the therapist in providing services tailored specific to each client. It is an integrative approach founded on evidence-based and empirically-supported treatment principles and interventions.

EMDr therapy

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR) is a form of cognitive therapy developed by Francine Shapiro in the 1990s. Using bilateral sensory input, EMDR is helpful in accessing and accepting traumatic memories while lessening many of the painful emotions that come with those memories.

gottman Method Couples therapy

Our team has completed level two training in the Gottman Method Couples Therapy, and this method is present throughout our Couples’ sessions.

Enneagram

The Enneagram is a method we like to use to help us understand how we think and feel. The nine different, interconnected personality types can help describe both how we react to and interact with the world. This then gives us a better understanding of true selves, and can help us make the most of our time together in therapy.