Remote mental health counseling & relationship therapy beyond the walls of an office where YOUR life is happening
Mental Health Assessments
All counseling, coaching and therapy services with us begins with an individual initial diagnostic interview and assessment (also known as an intake). During this session we try to get a general idea of what conflicts you're having as well as what goals you want to set for our work together.
We can't address a lifetime of problems in one session, and the intake assessment helps us get to the therapy component of our work together in a focused and effective way. Once you and each person you plan on working with in your relationship, family, polycule, group, etc has had an individual mental health intake assessment and we will make our recommendations and come up with our plan of action for what happens next.
Individual Counseling (Psychotherapy)
We start weekly for the first 6-8 sessions, taking special care to monitor our progress from one session to the next. If we’re making progress, we’ll check in on frequency of sessions. The goal will be you coming in less often and doing more of our work on your own. How long this will take is hard to say, but with the feedback we collect each session, we can make sure the sessions with your counselor are effective and helpful in your goal of making lasting, positive change in your life. Together, we will begin to identify and examine the thoughts, feelings and behaviors that might be keeping you stuck in a difficult place. You deserve to live your best life. Mental health counseling aims to teach you a tangible set of skills to pull from not only to help you navigate your current conflicts, but to be more fully prepared to navigate the ones that are sure to come in the future.
We currently offer online counseling and teletherapy via webcam for residents of NC, NY, and OR.
Relationship Counseling
What does your relationship look like? What could it look like without so much crisis and conflict? If you're in a relationship, it's probably best to deal with your issues within the context of your relationship. Relationship counseling (aka couples counseling, pre-marital counseling, marital therapy, etc) focuses on identifying what each of you want in your ideal relationship, and helping you communicate those desires in a compassionate and effective way.
Relationship counseling involves examining various aspects of your relationship including career, finances, sex life, parenting, family of origin, and more. Think your issues are your own? Maybe - but you are bringing those issues to your relationship. We want to work with you systemically, that means working through issues within the context of your larger relationships. This may be 2 people in a couple, but we welcome and affirm whatever safe, sane and consensual relationship you have designed (open relationships, triads, poly, etc). Modern therapy is sex-positive, LGBTQ-affirming, kink aware and secular. Relationship therapy is not out to save your relationship at all costs. Couples therapists have no agenda about helping you save or end your relationship, but we are out to help you design a relationship that is ideal for the people involved.
“Become such as you are, having learned what that is.”