As clients come up the stairs, our
entrance is the second on the right,
Suite Four...
Unlike any other Private Practice in the state
our multi-purpose office is divided into four
sections: an outer hallway, a fitness room (complete
with a TV, gym quality 'cardio' machines and free weights),
a waiting room/reading library, and a large office
where I see individual clients during the days and often convene groups in the evenings. This
picture, of course, is of the outer hallway.
Services We provide proven productive services for adults, families, adolescents, children, couples, and businesses... 1. Adults *Individual Counseling *Couples Counseling *Family Counseling *Clinical Assessment & Diagnoses *Life Skills Coaching *Fitness Consultation & Opportunities to Exercise 2. Children/Adolescents *Educational Advocacy *IQ Assessments *Psycho-Educational Evaluations *Behavioral Assessment & Planning *Counseling 3. Large and Small Businesses *Corporate Consultation *Small Business Consultation *Executive Mediation *Team Building * Hiring Strategies One of our Specializations: Behavioral Treatment for Opiate Addiction The Addiction Process and Productive Treatment • Behavioral treatment should not be conceptualized as a punishment or an activity that must be endured. It is as an opportunity to learn more about the process of addiction, and a manner through which many people have discovered positive and productive coping skills that have enabled future practical and emotional success. It is through this process clients are infused with a sense of pride in their recovery efforts. Guilt is discouraged; for it is as an unproductive and dangerous mindset. In this vein, it often helps to illustrate the difference between responsibility (actions We had no control over) and accountability (steps We can take now). • Most patients become addicted because of a convergence of environmental factors, a genetic propensity, and a concurrent emotional developmental delay frequently caused by neglect, abuse, and/or some other form of early trauma. This emotional developmental delay usually results in impulse control problems, a difficultly adequately regulating emotions, a history of troublesome interpersonal relationships, employment difficulties, and often, antisocial thoughts and behavior. Others succumb to addiction as a result of extended experimentation and a period of extended substance availability. In either instance, it is important to infuse clients with a sense of excitement about living by establishing a ‘life plan’ designed to provide clients with clear proximal (short-term) objectives paired with distal goals (e.g.long term educational or occupational goals). • Effective treatment for addiction is often conducted in groups. Within a safe environment of understanding peers, dynamic and process oriented ‘in the moment’ interventions are mixed with a measured balance of thoughtful and methodical planning. Clients are encouraged to set personal agendas but many request help accessing and expressing their feelings and beliefs. Sometimes this results in practical and specific questions regarding addiction, relationships and so on. At other times the group is asked to respond with their own reactions to remarks made by other group members. In this way, the group is taught how to help one another by engaging in meaningful discussion. The art of assertive (neither too aggressive nor too passive) confrontation is modeled and taught; especially at crucial moments when other members are asked to ‘hear’ and internalize often provocative information. The longer a group can stay together and get to know one another, the more honest, accurate and effective their confrontations and remarks become. Therefore, in sum, the groups are both didactic and process oriented. • Behavioral counseling for those struggling with painful emotional concerns is a dynamic process that comprises fluid ‘in the moment’ responsiveness and a thoughtful, jointly determined course of action. During that process the feelings clients and counselors may experience for life and each other may ebb and flow. But as surely as powerful fresh tides roll in and clean debris laden beaches, determined clients and counselors can work together to create waves of creative thought fresh with new perspectives and processes capable of cleansing minds littered with negative and unproductive thinking. If clients and counselors work hard enough a new path can cleared; one leading to a ‘Wellspring’ of peace, energy, and direction. Seth W. Wallace, Ph.D., M.S.,LPC Founder, Wellspring Behavioral Health |
" Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time..." ~ H.W. Longfellow |
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