Bringing Life Changing Hope to Individuals and Families in Southwest Fort Worth and Surrounding Areas
In seeking counseling or therapy, you have taken a very significant first step in making positive changes in your life. The counselor’s role in this process is to act as a consultant offering information, observations, ideas, and encouragement to assist you in addressing the issues about which you are seeking help. However, throughout this process, you are your own best asset. While the therapist may offer various types of counsel, he or she cannot do the actual work for you. This you must do yourself. Usually, the more willing a client is to talk openly and honestly, complete assignments, and try new behaviors, the more rapidly therapy progresses.
We provide Christian Counseling for the following issues:
Marital/premarital
Family
Individual
Grief
Alcohol/drug Use
Teen issues
Stress
Coping
Spiritual dfficulties
Depression
Relationship issues
Self esteem
We also offer classes, seminars, and conferences in the areas of marriage, parenting, and grief recovery to groups and/or congregations.
We operate on a sliding scale fee which means that we work with you to make counseling more affordable.
Our commitment to you is to assist you in as respectful and efficient a manner as possible, maintain professional behavior consistent with the ethics of our profession, and to work as briefly as you will allow. If it is apparent that we do not possess the expertise necessary to assist you, or if for other reasons, progress is not evident, then we can pursue any of the following:
1) Evaluate the possible blockages to progress and develop an alternate therapeutic approach,
2) Refer you to another therapist of your choice; or
3) Terminate therapy altogether
Counseling and Psychotherapy Purposes, Goals, & Techniques
Individuals or families usually seek counseling to work through a difficult situation or particular problem. Counseling is usually relatively brief, and is intended to assist the individual or family to return at a minimum to their previous level of functioning. Psychotherapy is focused more on assisting an individual to reduce the strength of a Techniques of Therapy:
1) Obtain a thorough assessment
2) Mutually identify the nature of the problem or problems to be addressed
3) Develop a mutually agreed-upon plan of therapy to address the problem(s)
4) Follow and modify the plan as necessary
Specific techniques involved in addressing problem(s) include:
1) Conversation regarding the nature of the problem, the client’s resources in addressing the problem, and ideas for the strengthening of the client’s resources or the development of new resources.
2) Written assignments concerning both the client's weaknesses and strengths.
3) Assigned readings.
4) Adjunct referrals to additional therapies, support groups, and personal
growth seminars.
5) Behavioral assignments to attempt different methods of addressing the problem(s) outside the therapy setting.
6) Experiential methods such as “role-play” exercises and assertion training to assist in gaining greater skills and confidence in overcoming the influence of the problem(s).
7) The client and the therapist may use other techniques and procedures, as needed and as mutually agreed upon.
Confidentiality & Client Records--HIPPA
Confidentiality is your right to keep private the information shared by you in the process of therapy. In order for therapy information to be shared with other individuals and agencies, you must sign a consent form authorizing this disclosure. However, in Texas, several exceptions to confidentiality exist. In these cases, therapy information must be disclosed by the therapist to the appropriate agencies or individuals. These cases include the following:
1) When a court of law subpoenas information shared by you with your therapist.
2) When there is possibility that you may have committed any act of child abuse or neglect.
3) If there is a reasonable possibility that you may commit an act of harm to yourself or others (threat of suicide, homicide, assault, or sexual assault).
When possible, we will inform you of any need to share information regarding you in the above three situations prior to the actual disclosure.
Written notes of counseling are maintained in your client record. Generally, these notes are maintained to assist us in providing services, and are written using counseling terms and descriptions, which may be confusing to the general public. Therefore, if you desire to either read or possess a copy of your client record, we will request that you in writing, release us from any liability that might arise from your either reading the material, misplacing it, or sharing it with any other individual or agency.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Possible Risks Upon Entering Counseling:
It is not always possible, nor do we guarantee that the issues you present in counseling will be 100 % resolved. However, you will work with your therapist to set reasonable goals for each issue and work toward attaining those goals. For various reasons the counseling process may be terminated before reaching each of these goals.
Changes will occur in your life when entering therapy. In order to appropriately deal with your concerns, you may find the disclosure process, therapy techniques and assignments given difficult to you and those around you, particularly your immediate family. Often things may seem to initially become more difficult. This is quite common. Please inform your therapist if you begin to see or feel this happening. This is often when healing is occurring and release from much of your pain is forthcoming. It may be tempting to terminate therapy. By informing your therapist of your feelings during this crucial stage you will be moving toward the goals originally set and will experience the benefit of your endurance.
In addition, we are not equipped to counsel with those needing counsel more than twice a week. If you have a diagnosis of an acute nature such as schizophrenias, personality disorder, or psychotic disorder, we will be happy to refer you to a counseling ministry or center better equipped to deal with your needs.
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