SOLUTION FOCUSED THERAPY

Therapy begins with the building of a trusting partnership with you and the setting of reachable goals. Not everyone seeking therapy is ready to engage in a long term, intensive and deeply introspective experience.

My approach is to work with the client to identify and actively address the client’s most pressing concerns. Later we can choose to explore deeper issues, or supplement your therapy with group work such as Seeking Safety™.

Whether the issue is troubled relationships, codependency, depression, anxiety, or overwhelming stress, we customize a treatment plan to remove roadblocks to a healthier life.

My focus is on building a concrete client skill set. As early as the first session, this can provide the client with hope that the process can work. Together we build up tools within the safe boundaries of a therapeutic experience and then practice applying them to real life situations via interpersonal process therapy.

These tools are personalized and may relate to one or more of the following:

• Taking back control of your life and accepting that you can’t control others
• Setting boundaries in your personal relationships and behavior
• Learning to reframe negative situations
• Understanding and managing your anger
• Releasing yourself from codependency
• Practicing coping and grounding skills
• Using community resources effectively & building your network of supportive people

As skills are integrated into the client’s daily life, confidence and self-esteem grow as well.

RECOVERY THERAPY

At Full Spectrum Recovery & Counseling, we specialize in programs related to alcohol and substance use:

• Family interventions
• DrinkChoice™ (in person or by phone)
• Relapse prevention
• Traditional Twelve Step support
• Private Independent Recovery programs
• Seeking Safety™group or individual therapy

SEEKING SAFETY™ THERAPY

Seeking Safety™ involves learning how to feel safe in stressful situations and how to cope with the lingering effects of trauma. You will learn to:

• Develop grounding and coping skills to help you detach from emotional pain
• Set boundaries in your relationships
• Cope with stress more effectively
• Replace destructive self-talk with compassionate self-talk
• Develop "recovery thinking"
• Self-nurture . . .and much more.

Group and individual Seeking Safety therapy available. Download brochure below:

PARENTAL CENTERING™

Parental Centering™ individual and group therapy targets parents of crisis-driven children (children whose lives are in continual chaos due to, say, substance abuse).  It teaches the parent new skills to change their reactionary and emotional charged responses into systematic, rational responses. This therapy allows them to stay involved with their child yet remain true to their own core values.  It is about teaching parents to take care of themselves first when living with a child in crisis. 

They will learn how to make decisions consistent with goals and boundaries set in advance based on their core values.  For example, they will learn to find their center between enmeshment and “love with detachment”, and to create a contract to map out choices when confronted with their child’s behaviors.  They will also learn to take an honest look at how their own actions are hurting or helping the child and to stop treating every situation as a crisis that must be solved today.  Download brochure below:

Lisa is also the author of Lost, Found and Forgiven: How One Mother Prevailed Against Teenage Rage and Brought Her Daughter Home Again. Her book chronicles her deeply personal and protracted struggle with a self-destructive teenager and provides the context for her approach to parental therapy. To learn more, click here.

MINDFULNESS THERAPY

In Mindfulness therapy, you will learn to be grateful for every day by exploring the distinct awareness of what is happening now without bringing a judgment to it, allowing you to open yourself to the possibilities of the moment. Mindfulness allows us to accept each situation for what it is, knowing that each moment is fleeting and cannot be brought back. We will focus on:

• Learning to balance your natural inner conflicts between emotions and reason and to concentrate on one thing at a time without distractions
• Focusing on the importance of compassion within ourselves and others to connect with each person in our lives
• Sharing our successes with other group members and practicing mindfulness techniques between sessions.

Mindfulness concepts can be woven through any issues the client is working on and is offered as a stand alone individual therapy. Group and individual Mindfulness therapy available. Download brochure below:

Download my mindfulness article here.