Please reach us at doug@risingsuncounseling.org if you cannot find an answer to your question.
In cooperation with Alma, I accept
I generally do not work with children under the age of 12, but I do sometimes make exceptions.
I provide both tele-therapy and on-line video therapy through a secure portal.
I often have openings that allow me to see clients at the last minute. I am willing and it depends entirely on my schedule on any given day.
Contact me through this web site or by phone and I will work with you to schedule an appointment.
The end goal of counseling varies for each client. As a general goal, determining the source of a client's discontent and helping him, her, or them to address issues at the source level to remove obstacles to adaptive thinking and positive feelings is an initial goal. Many clients also want to address goal setting or working towards life goals, and the end goal is to help them to a healthy start towards those goals. Finally, the utmost goal is to help clients to get to a place where therapy is no longer necessary - it's a lousy business model, but a great feeling to watch clients get to where they no longer need my services.
Whether one or both are necessary is clearly to be determined on a person by person basis. I am not a doctor and cannot prescribe medications and do not hold myself out as an expert on medications. That said, certain medications are useful tools and can often (under the supervision of a qualified medical professional) provide relief from symptoms like anxiety or depression. They often do not, however, address the root problems. Much like medication can sometimes alleviate high blood pressure, while exercise (or surgery) may resolve underlying problems, therapy may address underlying problems while medications treat the symptoms. So whether one, or both, can be helpful depends on the specific person and problem at issue.