We believe in unique care for each individual depending on their situation and what they need relief from. View the tabs below to learn more about the specific approaches for different stressors.
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Our counseling services can bring relief from:
We are proud to offer a unique Christian faith integrated counseling for any topic upon request.
OCD Counseling
There’s a difference between someone who requires excellent results or performance and someone who has obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD is not worrying about everyday problems or liking to have things clean or arranged a certain way. OCD becomes a problem when it begins to affect your quality of life. People with OCD have intrusive thoughts, worries or superstitions so excessive that they cause significant disruption of daily life. OCD can be alarming and disturbing for its sufferers. It is also frustrating for family members and others who care about the sufferer. People with OCD have intrusive thoughts, worries or superstitions so excessive that they cause significant disruption of daily life.
Common obsessions include fears of contamination, fear of harming others without realizing, fear of losing control or fear of succumbing to violent urges. Others may have excessive religious or moral doubts, fear of forbidden thoughts or may have a need to have things "just so" in order for things to be “right in their world." People with OCD may spend hours each day performing behavioral or mental rituals to attempt to reduce their anxiety. Most people with OCD recognize that their fears are irrational, yet still feel unable to resist the obsessions and compulsions.
Common symptoms of OCD:
Obsessions are repeated, persistent and unwanted thoughts, urges or images that are intrusive and cause distress and anxiety. Signs of obsession include:
Compulsions are repetitive behaviors that you feel driven to perform. These repetitive behaviors or mental acts are meant to prevent or reduce anxiety related to your obsessions or prevent something bad from happening. Some common compulsions are:
How does OCD Counseling Work?
At Evergreen Counseling Network, treatment can include evidenced-based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) along with Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), sometimes called Exposure and Ritual Prevention. Most importantly, we look at the whole person, with a non-judgmental approach, and work with the client collaboratively to find relief.
Anxiety Counseling
Everyone has anxiety. A certain amount of anxiety can be helpful in some occasions. For example, if you have to give a speech in school or in a professional meeting, anxiety can be your friend and keep you on your toes helping you do a good job. However, at what point does anxiety become debilitating and interfere with life?
It becomes problematic when there is an overwhelming persistence of worry, confusion, obsession, frustration, irritability or despair about everyday things. There are all kinds of things we can worry about on a daily basis. The most common worries are good health, the good health of your loved ones, safety issues, and finances. The healthy person may worry up to an hour a day on such issues. The person who obsesses with worry usually spends 3-10 hours a day worrying. They don’t know how to stop the worry cycle and it feels beyond their control.
Common symptoms of Anxiety:
How does Anxiety Counseling work?
Everyone has anxiety. A certain amount of anxiety can be helpful in some occasions. For example, if you have to give a speech in school or in a professional meeting, anxiety can be your friend and keep you on your toes helping you do a good job. However, at what point does anxiety become debilitating and interfere with life?
It becomes problematic when there is an overwhelming persistence of worry, confusion, obsession, frustration, irritability or despair about everyday things. There are all kinds of things we can worry about on a daily basis. The most common worries are good health, the good health of your loved ones, safety issues, and finances. The healthy person may worry up to an hour a day on such issues. The person who obsesses with worry usually spends 3-10 hours a day worrying. They don’t know how to stop the worry cycle and it feels beyond their control.
Grief Counseling
Grief is the natural emotional response to the loss of a cherished idea, person, or thing. Feelings of loss are unfortunately a common experience people face. There isn’t one way to grieve. Everyone grieves differently, and the process can take months for some and years for others. Most people experience normal grief, have a period of deep sorrow. Eventually, the feeling ease and it’s possible to accept the loss. Individuals move forward in life learning how to live with a hole in their heart. For others the loss can be debilitating. The painful emotions are so long lasting and severe recovery is difficult.
Losses can be death and non-death related. Everyone experiences loss sometime in their life. Here are some examples of losses: death of a family member/neighbor/pet, loss of a possession, moving, illness or injury, sister leaving home, divorce, job loss or relocation, lost my doll, friendship/relational loss, financial loss, sexual/emotional abuse, loss of innocence, or loss of a dream.
Common Symptoms of Grief
How does Grief Counseling work?
Grief counseling can help when you feel like you are stuck in your own healing. Many people find peace in sharing their story of loss. At Evergreen Counseling Network, our empathetic counselors are trained to listen and guide you in your grief work. You don’t have to do it alone. Help is on the way. Grief counseling explores emotions surrounding the loss. Your pain will start to lift as you allow yourself to feel it.
Depression Counseling
Life transitions can throw us a curve. Often unplanned situations cause stress, emotional disruption and exacerbate depression. Sadness is a normal human emotion and usually will go away after a few days. On the other hand, major depressive disorder occurs when the sadness won’t seem to go away and lasts for at least 2 weeks or longer.
As reported by the National Institute of Mental Health, in 2016 an estimated 16.2 million adults in the United States had at least one major depressive episode. This represents 6.7% of all U.S. adults. Among U.S. adolescents an estimated 3.1 million had at least one major depressive episode, 12.8% of the U.S. population aged 12 to 17.
Common symptoms of Depression:
How does Depression Counseling work?
At Evergreen Counseling Network, help is on the way. Many people suffer from depression. Please call to set up your individual appointment. Your depression counseling plan may include a combination of evidence-based strategies to recognize unproductive patterns of thought, identify healthy living goals, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), psychodynamic therapy, and/or in some cases working with your medication provider.
Suicide prevention
Thoughts of suicide is nothing to mess around with. If you think you or someone is at risk of self-harm or hurting another person:
- Call 911 or your local emergency number
- Stay with the person until help arrives
- Listen, but don’t judge, argue, threaten, or yell
- Get help from a suicide prevention hotline
- NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION LIFELINE 800-273-8255
Relationship Counseling
Throughout life everyone experiences different roles. Some life roles are friend, relative, spouse, parent, child, student, teacher or police officer, worker, citizen, sports enthusiast, runner, dancer, team player, leisurite, and religious being. Our relationships in these roles can be measured by satisfaction or dissatisfaction and may influence how we feel about our life overall.
Because relationships involve many aspects of our lives it is important to learn the skills necessary to help keep our relationships on a positive path. It is beneficial to learn how to tap into internal resources when situations arise that cause stress. If you are dissatisfied with your relationships in general or a specific relationship at home, at work, or with God, an Evergreen counselor will help you get on track in an intentional way. We help individuals, couples, and families to develop satisfying and fulfilling relationships.
Some possible areas of growth in relationships:
How does Relationship Counseling work?
At Evergreen Counseling Network, help is on the way. After listening to your personal or professional situation our trained counselors will get to work to help you develop and learn the skills necessary to transform your relationships into positive loving experiences. We develop an individualized treatment plan which may involve learning better communication skills, developing an emotional connection, managing disagreements and conflict, coping with stress and anxiousness, and setting healthy boundaries. Call today to get started on a meaningful tomorrow.
Trauma Counseling
Trauma is a normal reaction to an overwhelmingly negative event and can have long term effects on a person’s mental and emotional state often interfering with life functioning. Some examples of trauma situations include: rape, domestic violence, natural disasters, severe illness or injury, death of a loved one, or witnessing an act of violence.
Not only can a trauma experience be traumatic, if not properly healed the emotional response associated with the trauma may be triggered for an individual at some point in the future. When an individual has gone through a trauma, memories of what happened get connected in the mind with what the victim saw, heard, smelled, or felt at the time. In the future, if a similar thing is experienced the same memories and emotions may be reactivated causing the individual to be somewhat retraumatized.
How does Trauma Counseling work?
If you would like some help to explore and heal from your traumas, help is on the way. An Evergreen counselor is ready to take your call. After listening to your trauma story our professionally skilled counselor will help you accept and heal from your traumas. We develop an integrated treatment plan which may involve relaxation, prolonged exposure, and cognitive restructuring among other customized interventions.