There is not one story, or reason, or path that leads people to seek individual counseling. Some people are looking for a way to manage the stress of their everyday life. Some are wanting to find better ways to connect with others, or more skills to overcome negative habits or traditions that have become a harmful way of living. While often people are struggling with depression, anxiety, racing thoughts that can be overwhelming, or past experiences that impact our everyday lives (without permission.) These are all different stories but all equally important to the person reaching out to make a connection and seek help.

At Inclusion Wellness, we don’t believe there is only one way to help people find a path to build a better version of themselves, healthy relationships with others, and find a path towards healing.  We are here for every story, and we thrive at working with diverse clientele. We utilize a variety of treatment options including: Narrative therapy, Experiential Techniques, Play, Music, Art Therapies, as well as traditional talk therapy to help clients learn and master effective skills to improve their personal life and their relationships with loved ones.

Our main goal is to provide a safe, supportive environment for us to look at your individual story and together figure out what you need to do to create the change you are seeking.

Therapy can be uncomfortable and difficult, but that is how change happens. IWT likes to make the process of change less challenging for people by making therapy about making a connection with someone, and providing a safe, supportive environment. Healing is a chance to look at the story we are living in and rewrite the parts that don't fit anymore. We know it can be hard to reach out for help.

The first step is reaching out, if you are looking, the hope is that you will find a connection with someone that can support you and the change you are seeking.

Communication. Overwhelmingly if you were to ask therapist and counselors who worked with intimate partners worldwide, the most frequent and consistent goal for services would be improving communication. The reason is because it is legitimately the most important thing in creating a lasting connection, friendship, and healthy relationship. It is also the thing we as humans struggle with the most because it requires vulnerability, a calm environment, and for both (or all people) involved to feel as if their words have value and they are being listened to (not so easy when there is yelling, or you are hurting.) It sounds like a lot of work, right? It can be if healthy communication skills are not something that you were taught, or that you have practiced (just like most of the world.)

At Inclusion Wellness communication, learning to manage your emotions, building trust, (or rebuilding trust after it has been lost), and establishing healthy boundaries are some of the foundational skills that we work with intimate partners on. People seeking partner therapy can be starting a new relationship and want to begin with a healthy foundation (pre-marital); some have been married 30 years and no longer know each other and want to negotiate a brand new “marriage contract”, or they can fall anywhere else in wide spectrum of multi-partner, pre-divorce, or in-repair versions of partnerships.

We are here to help you identify how you want your partnership to work. Couple’s (Intimate Partner) work can be very challenging because we establish patterns and take on roles that are functional for a while, and for change to happen the whole system must shift. We are here to help make that uncomfortable change safer, and to provide a supportive environment and offer options and skills to help you create the new relationship that you choose to be a part of.

Inclusion Wellness offers both individual and family therapy services for children ages 5-17. It would be more accurate to say that all services for children under 18 are family services in nature, because there is an expectation of family involvement.

Play is the language of children, and play therapy is an effective option for services with children, and families, (and often individual adults.) Being able to express emotions, and thoughts without restrictions and using representations rather than making direct statements can be very therapeutic. Art and Music have similar success and are very effective as well. People seek services for their children usually to help them to regulate either emotions or behaviors that are making everyday life function challenging for the child, the family, the school, or all of the above. Children are not immune to the stressors of life, they experience depression, anxiety, ADHD, trauma, perfectionism, negative self-criticism, with often limited control over their environment or their lives.

At Inclusion Wellness children are given the opportunity to build a connection, and identify their strengths, and have input on their goals. The family is also a part of that process and included in discussing success, and learning new skills, and ways to encourage and if needed will get information about any behavioral health issues related to the child in care, and ways to support healing.

Family therapy is designed to look at the strengths, needs and goals of the family system, determine what roles, and family processes are not currently working and help the family build up new skills, improve communication, create healthy boundaries, and establish positive new functional family roles and rituals. People tend to seek out family services at times of transition, when there has been a change in the make-up (divorce, marriage/blending, adoption, grief and loss.) Families also seek services when there are what we describe as stage of life changes, childhood to adolescence or teenage years, if there is conflict between parent-child, or if there have been issues with addiction or violence in the home.

The reason people are looking for help is different for every family, but the desire to be closer, connected and loved is at the core of all the families that do the work to heal in family therapy. At IWT family is defined by people who have chosen to create a system of 2 or more people who want to seek to create a better family system together.