Individual Counseling

Individual Psychotherapy has become an accepted practice to those in search of clear minded serenity. Nowadays, individuals seek therapy in a path toward their own mental freedom. If you want to be free from suffering why not seek out a professional who's job it is to help people transcend their mental suffering? Psychotherapists help many high functioning, self actualizing individuals become better able to be successful in their own lives. Sports psychologists, for example, help many a top athlete develop their peek performance.

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Email Counseling

Email therapy or eTherapy is becoming more and more popular. With the internet age comes convenience and choice in so many areas of our lives. So many things are at our fingertips, including counseling. From the privacy and convenience of home one can get quality counseling at costs much lower than traditional face to face counseling. Costs are lower because normal therapist office expenses are gone.

It's certainly a great place to start.

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Couples Counseling

Couples Counseling is needed when the lines of communication in a marriage or partnership have broken down, making it impossible to relate to one another in a mutually beneficial way.

It benefits both parties to have an advocate and confidant in a mate. If there is resentment there is withdrawal. If there is a list of inequities on either or both sides that has not been discussed, processed and mitigated, then there can not be healthy, open, frank discussion.

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Mental Health

Substance Abuse

Intentionality

 

Featured Services:

Mental Health Counseling

  • Self Improvement
  • Trauma and PTSD (with EMDR)
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Anger Management
  • Personality Disorders
  • Eating Disorders (with EMDR)

Substance Abuse Counseling

  • Motivational Interviewing Based (non-judgmental, non-confrontational and non-adversarial)
  • Utilizing EMDR for urge reduction
  • 12 step recovery supported/understood but never forced

Marriage/Relationship Counseling

  • Counseling as a couple
  • Individual counseling for issues effecting/related to relationships

Counseling for Older Adults and Caregivers

  • Mental Health Counseling
  • Gerontological Counseling
  • Caregiver Counseling and Support

Intention Therapy

Focused, Open, Spacious, Non-judging, Acceptance

  • Open to all aspects of one's experience.
  • Create expansive mental space for whatever needs to come up.
  • Discernment without judgment.
  • Attitude of acceptance that alleviates ego defense of denial.
  • See dysfunction as temporary, not a part of oneself, see oneself free of dysfunction and only momentarily encumbered by it
  • Counselor helps the client see themselves free of dysfunction by seeing the Client as they truly are, not as the dysfunctional mental, emotional, behavioral tapestry that is clouding their authentic selfhood.

Cognitive Behavioral Interventions Focused on Intentions

  • Identify the unconscious intentions that guide much of your belief system, thought process, and behavior patterns.
  • By becoming mindful of the intentional basis for much of your disjunction you can accept your disjunction, really see it (without denial) and begin the process of cognitive / behavioral change.
  • See how you have created your current life through conscious and unconscious intention.
  • Create your life consciously to a greater and greater extent.
  • Live authentically and intentionally through focused, open, spacious, non-judging, acceptance and awareness.

Integrates Client Centered, Gestalt, Mindfulness, and Cognitive Behavioral Theory Bases

  • The ideas are not new, they are just integrated and developed particularly to assist the client to accept all aspect of self, to reintegrate disowned parts of oneself and to develop ways toward mindful and holistic self balance from moment to moment. It focuses on arriving at the truth of this moment, and the acceptance and faith in one's own deeper knowingness.
  • Recognizes that self beliefs created by our past experience dictates much of present and future intentional actions. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is utilized to deal with past traumas and help to mitigate unconscious/dysfunctional intentions/actions.

Positive, Supportive, Fostering Growth of Faith in Oneself

  • The power of faith is curative and restorative, faith in oneself is the goal and is developed through self knowledge, validation, and in gains in personal freedom.
  • Faith in the ways toward: balance, freedom and joy - developed/refined by the client in therapy are always available to the client because they are fully known and integrated. They can only momentarily be forgotten, and always be returned to.

 

 

Mental Health and Addiction Resources in Pinellas County Florida

Area Agency on Aging of Pasco-Pinellas, Inc.
agingcarefl.org

St. Petersburg, Florida

Phone: (727) 570-9696
Fax: (727) 570-5098
Senior Helpline 1-800-96ELDER (1-800-963-5337)
For inquiries from outside of the area call (727) 217-8111

Boley Centers Inc.

boleycenters.org

St. Petersburg, FL

With more than 30 housing and service center locations scattered throughout Pinellas County, the Organization comprises a wide variety of treatment, rehabilitation and vocational services; a network of living opportunities in community residences and apartments. Boley Centers' residential options -- from highly structured group homes to permanent, supported apartments to home ownership -- provide affordable, attractive, safe living opportunities for over 700 consumers, making Boley Centers a leader in residential services and housing opportunities in the southeast.

Directions for Mental Health

directionsmh.org

Clearwater, Florida

Directions for Mental Health is a private nonprofit community mental health counseling organization. Their prevention, early intervention and treatment programs serve the mental health needs of children, families, adults and seniors. This is an outstanding organization, they have very good counselors, therapists, and case managers.

Fairwinds Treatment Center

fairwindstreatment.com

Clearwater, Florida

Fairwinds is a private addiction/ substance abuse treatment center. The grounds surrounding the facility provide a park-like setting and recreational areas including a pool. Nice place, well qualified counseling staff, all therapists have good addictions experience.

Goodwill Industries

goodwill.org

St. Petersburg, Florida

Services: vocational counseling , individual counseling; outpatient intensive day/night drug treatment. Populations: Adults 18 years of age and older.

Gulf Coast Community Care

http://www.gcjfs.org/

Clearwater FL

Gulf Coast Community Care is a major provider of an array of community-based services to individuals living with HIV/AIDS, serving more than 1,000 clients in Pinellas and Pasco counties. Gulf Coast provides FREE service to the clients. People living with HIV/AIDS, along with their family and partners, may receive mental health counseling/ therapy as part of the HIV Programs.

Hospice

hospicefoundation.org

Specific Services: Providing patients with care primarily in the "home", where patients have loving support of family and friends Circle of Love Children's Program: addresses the needs of the diverse community of children and families, regardless of ability to pay. Specific Population: Those who cope either personally or professionally with terminal illness, death, and the process of grief, primarily those with a prognosis of one year or less. Excellent, dedicated staff. I know some of the therapists and counselors there, and they are very good at what they do.

Operation PAR, Inc.

operationpar.org

Pinellas Park, FL

PAR offers a full continuum of services for individuals with substance abuse, addiction and/or mental health disorders. PAR is awesome! I have had the pleasure of working at many different programs there, as a counselor, therapist, director, and clinical supervisor. The majority of their programs are in Clearwater and Largo but there are PAR programs all over the State. You can really get help here. It's a great place to work too if you want to help people.

Personal Enrichment Through Mental Health Services (PEMHS)

pemhs.org

Pinellas Park, Florida

Adult Services Emergency Services – Provides immediate assessment, crisis intervention counseling, referrals, and admission; Crisis Stabilization – Provides brief, intensive counseling services for adults in crisis; Short Term Residential Treatment; Focused Outreach - Mental Health counseling and support for adults returning to the community after incarceration. Children and Family Services: Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Programs; The Children's Center - is an emergency shelter for children; Children’s Continuum of Care–Provides intensive residential treatment, therapy groups, case management, and in-home counseling; Emergency Response Team (ERT) – Provides crisis intervention for children and families at risk for abuse or neglect; Juvenile Detention Center; Screening and Stabilization; Therapeutic Foster Care

Suncoast Center

suncoastcenter.com

St. Petersburg, FL

Adult Services: Outpatient Counseling; Substance Abuse Counseling; Community Support Programs; Senior Support Services Children and Family Services: Outpatient Counseling; School-Based Counseling; In-Home Counseling; Family Support Services

Windmoor Healthcare

windmoorhealthcare.com

Clearwater, Florida

Windmoor Healthcare is a full-service psychiatric facility available 24-hours a day.