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Common ConcernsDepression or Chronic Apathy There are different causes of depression. Treatment can depend on medical history, personal history, nutrition, activity level and coping patterns. It is important to take a comprehensive approach to treating depression. Treatment should address the various reasons for depression and include a personalized care plan. Anxiety and/or PanicAnxiousness is a natural, healthy emotion; however, sometimes anxious feelings become too intense and frequent. When excessive feelings of anxiety are present, it becomes very difficult to feel like yourself. Anxiety disorders are very common and treatable. Common types include: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder and Social Phobia Disorder. Couples & Marriage CounselingThere is a significant correlation between healthy relationships and mental health. Spending time and energy on learning relationship skills and nurturing relationships is important for everyone. Unhealthy relationship patterns tends to follow individuals from relationship to relationship. Learn how to shed these patterns and replace them with healthier relationship skills. Identity Work & PurposeCounseling can help you be less distracted by the stories other people have told you about yourself. Many people live with the belief that they are not enough. Identity work includes life planning, understanding and defining what's important to you, and defining your place in the world. Identity work can also include exploring issues around sexual orientation, gender identity, social status, and ethnicity. Chronic Pain & Medical ConditionsLiving with chronic illness or a medical condition presents many unique challenges. There is no doubt that medical science benefits those living with illness/pain, but there are limits to only focusing on the body. Counseling for those living with a chronic condition is not about treating psychological illness, but helping people live with a very difficult situation and medical condition. It is still possible to live a good life even though it may be a difficult life. Adult ADHDADHD is often undiagnosed in adults. Without appropriate treatment, life can be very challenging. Traditional therapy does not address attention-related concerns. The approach can be helpful with emotional and interpersonal issues, but fails to help people manage ADHD. We offer testing to determine the sub-type of ADHD, and ADHD-focused therapies with counseling. Attention rehabilitation techniques focus on self-acceptance, memory tools, problem solving, planning and organization tools, and impulse management.TraumaIt is impossible to experience some events and not be deeply impacted. Sometimes individuals are unable to integrate an experience and feel frozen by the traumatic event/situation. Wholeness includes being present with all our wounds in a way that does not include fear or avoidance. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the most common diagnostic category used to describe symptoms arising from emotionally traumatic experiences. The traumatic experience involves actual (or threatened) death or injury to the individual or others. The traumatic experience is one where the individual feels intense fear, helplessness, horror or betrayal. Treatment for trauma-based concerns includes emotionally-oriented counseling to process and make sense of past experiences, building skills for coping with the emotional outcome of trauma, and body-centered therapy to assist with releasing stored tensions that resulted from the trauma. Anger ManagementAnger management is a goal-focused process designed to teach both awareness and new coping techniques. Anger is a normal, healthy emotion and individuals develop problems when they are unable to express anger or express it too often. Anger management counseling teaches individuals how to recognize signs/triggers of anger and practice action steps to calm and manage anger in an emotionally positive way. Coping and Stress ManagementAll adults need to have some sense of direction and the skills to cope with daily life stressors. Without coping skills and stress management planning, most people feel like days move by without direction or purpose, they're living on auto-pilot, or they don't have the choice to live a stress-managed life. Grief and LossGrief and loss is greatly misunderstood in our culture. It is a profound emotional reaction to change and/or death of a loved one. Grief often presents with intense mental and physical symptoms. Individuals commonly respond to grief by trying to fix, ignore, or minimize the feelings surrounding loss. All these approaches deny the reality that grief demands to be recognized and shared. Individuals need to make room and create time for grief. Our losses need to matter to us. Grief Counseling is the process of understanding how our grief changes us and defines us.Neglect and ShameAdults that have grown up in situations of neglect are more sensitive to the emotion shame. Developing a shame-based identity can set in during childhood as a defense mechanism against parents/guardians who are failing them. On a deeper level, the child comes to believe that their needs are not as important as others, they are unimportant, or they are not worthy of having boundaries. Children often grow into adults unaware that the defense response is still impacting day to day life and relationships.Harm ReductionHarm reduction is a practice designed to reduce the harmful consequences associated with high risk behavior. The center provides harm reduction counseling for the person engaging in high risk behavior related to sexual activity (unplanned frequent partners, unprotected sex, doing acts that one does not want to do). Concerns about sexual behaviors need to be explored in a safe, nonjudgmental environment. ****
Fargo Office Contact: 26 Roberts Street North, Suite 114, Fargo North Dakota / Telephone: 701-478-7199
Valley City Contact: 136 2nd Avenue NE, Valley City, ND 58072 / Telephone: 1-877-413-6423
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