by admin | Jun 8, 2017 | Seeking Help, Wellness Assistance |
At Abelard Psychotherapy, Inc. our focus is the whole person: mind, body and spirit. Specializing in treating disorders of behavior, thinking and feeling, our practice provides medication management and psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and adults in a caring, therapeutic environment for our clients to work through life’s complexities. To most comprehensively serve our youth population at risk of needing a higher level of care, we also offer In-Home Therapy (IHT) services, which includes Therapeutic Training & Support (TT&S), to youth (age 20 and younger) and their families as an intervention measure with the goal of stabilization and keeping the youth in the home. In-Home Therapy (IHT) connects youth and their families to a licensed clinician with attention to the family’s preferences, culture, and behavioral health support needs. IHT fosters a cohesive, therapeutic relationship to improve the youth’s functioning within the family and the community through a strength-based, proactive treatment plan. By coordinating a collaborating group of formal supports (such as, teachers, therapists, state agencies, etc.) and natural supports (such as, friends, community members, etc.), conducting family therapy, and implementing behavioral techniques and skills, IHT nurtures and improves the youth and family’s wellbeing. Therapeutic Training & Support (TT&S) working alongside a licensed clinician, the TT&S supports the youth and family as part of the In-Home Therapy experience. TT&S focus their attention on integrating the myriad of supports – natural and formal – and creating treatment plans; while assisting the licensed clinician in ensuring both the youth & family’s needs are met. We have the language capability of supporting English, Cape Verdean Creole, Spanish and Portuguese speaking...
by Gabrielle Abelard | Feb 16, 2015 | Seeking Help |
Psychotherapy describes a collaborative relationship between a therapist and their patient where the goal is to provide support and coping skills to patients feeling overwhelmed by a range of different issues. These patients may be experiencing anything from chronic mental illness, to weight loss difficulties, to overcoming substance abuse. Psychotherapy counseling can be provided by various mental health professionals: licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, psychologists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, amongst a variety of other specialized counselors and psychiatric professionals. The techniques used by these psychotherapists is nearly as varied as the issues they are designed to treat, some of the most common include: cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, gentle reprocessing (trauma), solution-focused brief therapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy, shortened as CBT, is perhaps the most well-known, and most often used standard therapeutic technique. CBT treatment includes identifying the initial cognition experienced by the patient when exposed to any situation causing distressful feelings. The patient and clinician then attempt to expose and alter these reactions to create insight into our minds’ often over the top interpretation of stimuli, whether it be from other people or random life incidences, to become more aware, and mindful, to how our minds work and how to cope with it. As previously mentioned, psychotherapy can be used to treat short term difficulties, such as divorce, grieving a death, school/work pressure, weight loss, etc. and long term afflictions, like depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, chronic physical illness, insomnia, attention deficit disorders, and more. Because psychotherapy is a relatively new form of treatment, due to mental health being a fairly new concern in the...
