Strategies For Life counseling services can help you improve your life today. We can help to…
Increase Your Life Satisfaction: You can feel healthy, grounded and in control of your life.
Resolve Relationship Challenges: You can be more connected to the people you care about.
Transition Through Life Changes Skillfully: You can learn how to handle the puddles and potholes life sends your way and feel resilient and strong
Learn strategies to cope with and manage Anxiety, Depression, Mood Swings, or Anger: We can help get you off that emotional roller coaster
Trauma can come from wartime experiences, but it is also comes from a history of abuse, sexual abuse, work injuries, accidents, chaotic families and other life events. Life can feel difficult to manage when you are struggling with the effects of trauma. We can help you process those experiences in a safe and supportive way so you can move on with life.
Grief, Bereavement, and Loss: Stop hurting. Move through major life losses with acceptance and understanding of sorrow while becoming engaged in your life again.
Find resolution to LGBTQ Life Concerns: Sexual or Gender Identity, Coming Out: Youth & Later Life, Transgender Concerns, Rural Cultural Conflicts, Emotional Conflicts. We can help you find acceptance, support and resolution.
Strategies For Life Counseling utilizes Evidence based research, therapies, and interventions. These interventions are proven effective in providing the help you are looking for to heal or to grow. We utilize Cognitive Behavior Therapies, Dialectical Behavioral Therapies and others integrated with Talk Therapies and Mindfulness. This forms the cornerstone of helping you resolve emotional disturbance, teach skills and strategies and improve your sense of wellbeing.
Roll your cursor over a focus or concern anywhere on this page or click on the menu to help you navigate quickly and easily to the concern or focus that has brought you to us.
Service types fall into several major categories. They are Individual, Couples/Relationship, Family and Group. They may occur in an office, at home or via a video platform. Strategies For Life is currently providing all services via telehealth also known as distance counseling. We use video services to do this.
Each counseling format addresses different needs and goals. These services may however overlap in content areas. For instance, if a client comes in and their concern is their relationship with someone else, then services may start with addressing individual challenges and when appropriate, move to family or couples sessions that address relationship issues between you and the other person.
Individual: to address issues interfering with your ability to feel happy and fulfilled in all areas of your life. Some areas that we specialize in are anxiety, depression, mood swings, codependent behaviors, substance abuse issues, stress management, PTSD, trauma history, grief, loss, bereavement and recapturing & redefining your life after a major life change.
Couples/Marital/Relationship: Couples sometimes need assistance with resolving conflict, improving communication, reconnecting with each other. The areas that create the most frequent conflict are communication, working as partners, sex, infidelity and parenting. Our goal is assist clients with resolving problems and working on areas that need improvement. When necessary, the couple may seek assistance with decisions about how to leave a relationship in a way that takes care of the individuals emotionally and seeks to mediate disagreements.
Family: Families often find themselves at crossroads with issues that cause conflict, friction and emotional distress. Some issues that family therapy addresses include improving communication, limits & boundaries, clear expectations, family roles, and learning fair ways to resolve conflicts that arise.
Group: Group services address a specific concern. They can include substance abuse recovery, codependent behaviors and LGBTQ support. Visit the Groups page to find out more about the groups currently offered and to learn how to become part of a group.
LGBTQ
Strategies For Life is an affirming counseling center. Therapists are LGBTQ Competency certified to be able to address the specific needs and concerns of those seeking assistance with resolving concerns around LGBTQ issues.
We are lifetime members of the LGBTQ Therapist Resource and the only certified affirming counselors in the Cartersville area.