Marriage & Couples Psychotherapy
Our relationship counseling helps partners improve connection, resolve conflicts, and rebuild trust through open, guided communication.
Enhance the Quality of Your Relationship
Couples and marriage therapy can deepen connections, improve communication, and strengthen bonds for a healthier, more fulfilling relationship.
Is your marriage or relationship at a crossroads?
In every relationship, it is normal that couples have disagreements. There is a wide range of reasons why there are issues in a relationship. Things that can challenge a relationship include the feeling of being threatened, chronic arguing, one partner always pointing out the negative, moodiness, abusiveness, sexual concerns, or infidelity, to name a few. However, when anger, unhappiness, or troubling behavior become the norm in the relationship, it is time to seek therapy. At POSS, therapy sessions are led by skilled, dedicated mental health professionals who provide individualized strategies that address challenges that threaten the relationship.
Research shows that untreated relationship issues can result in feelings of being emotionally drained, unhappiness, chronic stress, hypertension, heart problems, weakening of the immune system, and even obesity. Marital counselling or couples therapy offers many proven strategies for relationship repair and can work for many couples. At POSS we offer evidence-based strategies that are tailored to meeting the needs of each unique couple. Some of the common goals we are proud to accomplish during our therapy sessions include improved communication, greater trust, better understanding of one another’s needs, and improved conflict resolution skills.
Nurturing Stronger Beginnings
Nurturing stronger beginnings to empower children and teens for a brighter future.
Are you a parent experiencing challenges with your child?
Often parents seek therapy to address a wide variety of behavioral and mental health issues for their children. POSS provides comprehensive psychotherapy services for children of all ages. Our child therapists have specialized training in child clinical therapeutic approaches, which guides the appropriate assessment and treatment of our children and their families. Our integrative approach is tailored to each child’s developmental level and presenting issues. Some of the issues that we treat include:
Our experienced therapists offer not only therapeutic strategies and techniques, but another adult voice to which children are receptive, relieving some of the pressure on the parent-child relationship. In addition, our therapists do provide support and information to parents facing difficult challenges. Treatment orientation for children and adolescents include cognitive behavioral therapy, insight-oriented therapy, and play therapy.
why it matters
Our experienced therapists offer not only therapeutic strategies and techniques, but another adult voice to which children are receptive, relieving some of the pressure on the parent-child relationship. In addition, our therapists do provide support and information to parents facing difficult challenges. Treatment orientation for children and adolescents include cognitive behavioral therapy, insight-oriented therapy, and play therapy.
Empower New Beginnings
Adult psychotherapy supports growth, healing, and lasting change.
Are you feeling depleted, disappointed, and at times overburdened with day to day stressors?
At POSS, talk therapy with a mental health therapist can address many issues with adults including depression, anxiety, relationship issues, conflict resolution professional issues, chronic mental health issues, and parenting issues.
At the beginning of treatment, a clinical evaluation is conducted which guides the development of an individualized treatment plan. Through such an assessment, the therapist will learn about a client’s current problems, related history, relationships, and personal strengths.
POSS therapists recognize the uniqueness of each individual and therefore tailor treatment accordingly while placing emphasis on the therapeutic relationship and striving to create a healing environment. Our views of therapy are one that is a guided discovery in which clients examine issues, gain new perspectives, and develop and practice coping skills.
Adult psychotherapy sessions focus on prioritizing empathy, collaboration, and goal-orientation while helping people identify and change ineffective patterns of thinking, to live a more satisfying life. Cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic/insight-oriented, and interpersonal therapy techniques are some of the approaches we use to facilitate personal growth and treat an array of issues.
Thrive Through Transition
Therapy for college students builds resilience, clarity, and emotional balance during pivotal years.
Are you feeling overwhelmed or perhaps a bit isolated?
Progressive Option Support Services (POSS) recognizes the challenges associated with college life. Our approach is dynamic and fresh. We work creatively to find out how to make a partnership with young adults that is respectful, based in trust and also includes room for being demanding when needed. Much of this comes from our own practice. We are in touch and provide therapy to young adults all the time. Issues related to sex and dating, drugs and drinking, depression, anxiety and academic pressures are those that are treatable.
Academic challenges and pressures
Many young people struggle with the academic independence that college allows. Getting to class on time, managing assignments, choosing classes, and knowing when to ask for help all take more initiative than in high school. If a young adult struggles with time management or organization, there are fewer safety nets to catch them and draw attention to the problem–perhaps until these struggles are reflected in grades. POSS therapists can assist with making sense of many aspects of academic life which may feel overwhelming. Our clinicians are skilled at providing guidance in many areas of academic life which may hinder progress.
Making friends and building a social life
College is not only a time to grow academically but also socially. This does not mean all young people feel capable of making sense of this new landscape. Sometimes, students find themselves less outgoing, and anxious in social settings.
College students frequently discuss challenges related to making friends in ways that do not involve alcohol, making friends as a person of color, navigating social situations that demand connecting with strangers and finding “their people.” POSS clinicians work to create a partnership that takes these challenges on together, trying new strategies, taking increasingly bigger risks, and dealing with the disappointments and celebrating the successes that follow.
Therapy for depression and anxiety
As with at any moment in life, depression and anxiety can grow and linger and become in various ways debilitating. Getting the right help from our clinicians enables students to make sense of emergent adulthood and the myriad of emotional experiences that come at this time of transition. This also empowers students to make strong choices about how to maneuver through their academic and social lives.
Therapy for drug and alcohol abuse
While young people today are exposed to drugs and alcohol in high school or even earlier, most college students find the availability of both drugs and alcohol, as well as the pressure to use and abuse these substances, intense. At POSS our task isn’t to make decisions for young adults but rather, to help them explore options and consequences, better understand the pressures they experience and make safe choices if they do choose to use drugs or alcohol.
Sexuality and sexual orientation
College is a time when many young adults explore their sexuality. POSS therapists strive to create a space where young adults feel comfortable talking about sex using a safe, non-judgmental approach. Our goal is to support clients to understand sex and attraction, and to make conscious decisions about where they stand.
Sexual orientation is in focus at this stage in life. If young adults find themselves attracted to the same sex, they may need help making sense of this attraction, talking to their parents and friends about this–when ready–and dealing with the bias that’s inevitably present even on the most progressive campuses. It is important to recognize that suicide rates are higher among LGTBQ individuals. POSS may help young people by giving them the help that they need.
POSS clinicians also have experience with a myriad of other issues that may hinder students’ progress while in college. Some of these include sexual assault, body image issues, managing money, and career and post college life.
