Medina Counseling Specialties
Counseling for Teens
The teenage years bring significant emotional, social, academic, and developmental changes. While some stress and mood changes are a normal part of adolescence, teens can also experience challenges that become difficult to manage on their own.
Counseling for Children
Every child experiences difficult emotions, behavioral challenges, and stressful periods from time to time. Counseling may be helpful when these difficulties persist, begin interfering with everyday life, or seem difficult for the child or family to manage.
Counseling for ADHD
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can affect much more than the ability to pay attention. Children, teens, and adults with ADHD may struggle with organization, time management, impulsivity, emotional regulation, completing tasks, relationships, school, work, and the demands of everyday life.
Counseling for Depression
Many of us have said that we are feeling depressed, but usually the feelings last a day or two at most. Someone with clinical depression has intense feelings of sadness and hopelessness that are relatively constant, to the point that it can be difficult to function in daily life. Depression is a brain disorder, in which the brain chemicals that affect mood, thinking, and behavior, are out of balance.
Counseling for Anxiety
Research conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health has shown that anxiety disorders are the number one mental health problem among American women, and are second only to alcohol and drug abuse among men. Anxiety disorders affect more than 13% of the population!
Counseling for Grief
Grief is an unhappy or painful reaction to a major loss. Often grief is associated with death, such as the loss of a friend or family member, but there are other causes of grief. The termination of a long-term relationship or job can cause grief; so can a chronic medical condition that affects someone’s quality of life.
Counseling for Couples
Many people believe that you should only seek relationship counseling when separation or divorce are looming. But that is often too little, too late. The average couple waits six years before seeking therapy. This is a lot of time to let problems fester; at this point, troubled relationships are difficult to save. It is therefore important to acknowledge problems early and seek therapy as soon as possible.
Counseling for Families
Problems in your family can affect all areas of family members' lives. Behavioral or emotional problems in children are one of the most common reasons to visit a family therapist. A child’s problems do not exist in a vacuum; they exist, and will likely need to be addressed, within the context of the family.
OCD and ERP THERAPY
OCD can create a cycle in which an intrusive thought or trigger causes distress, followed by a compulsion intended to reduce that distress or prevent a feared outcome. While the compulsion may provide temporary relief, responding this way can reinforce the OCD cycle over time. ERP helps interrupt that cycle.
EMDR THERAPY
Difficult or traumatic experiences can continue to affect how you think, feel, and respond long after the experience itself has ended. Certain memories, situations, or reminders may trigger anxiety, distress, or reactions that feel difficult to control. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based psychotherapy approach designed to help people process distressing experiences and reduce the emotional impact they continue to have.
Counseling for Older Adults
Retirement is often portrayed as a time of relaxation and freedom, but leaving the workforce can also create significant changes in routine, relationships, identity, finances, and sense of purpose.
Additional Services
In addition to treating children, adolescents, adults, couples and families, our compassionate and experienced counselors in Akron, Ohio work with a variety of mental health concerns.