ABOUT NOOL

Our approach to individual therapy allows the client to drive each assessment and therapy session, while the counselor’s role is to listen, guide, support and offer helpful interventions to the client. We rely on a strong empathetic relationship as the foundation for growth. 

Through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), we focus on creating positive changes in your life by identifying and changing negative or unhealthy types of thinking. Through gaining insight about your thoughts, feelings and behaviors and how they are connected, you gain the ability to own control over yourself and ultimately grow into your own counselor. CBT interventions address the need for stress reduction and relaxation, thought reframing, and behavioral changes. CBT is an evidence based approach for treating depression, anxiety, relationship issues and more. 

Play is a child’s first language. Before your child develops verbal language skills, he is already learning and expressing. Through Play Therapy, your child will learn self-control, self respect, feelings expression, problem solving, communication skills and behavior modification. 

The play therapist relies on play, toys and games to help the child explore, express and safely experience the difficulties he is facing outside of the playroom. Through play, the therapist assesses and communicates with the child, discovering and treating struggles unable to be heard and recognized through normal dialogue. Play Therapy is an evidence based approach for treating all childhood mental health needs. 

The goal of Family Therapy is to identify and address emotional, psychological or behavioral issues in the family. Through Family Therapy, family members work to improve communication, solve family problems, understand and handle special family situations and create a better functioning home environment. We rely on an individualized, systems approach to guide you and your family through your struggles and become a healthy, connected family. We utilize Family Therapy as needed for our clients.

The goal of Couples Counseling is to improve romantic relationships and resolve interpersonal conflicts. Through Couples Counseling, partners gain clarification about their feelings, remove obstacles in their relationship, deepen intimacy and connection and increase self-awareness and personal growth. Through Couples Counseling, we listen to you and your partner tell your story about your struggles, both personally and romantically, and offer solutions and strategies to increase growth. 

Perinatal Counseling refers to the treatment of emotional struggles during pregnancy or surrounding pregnancy. These struggles could include: antenatal depression, antenatal anxiety, postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, postpartum panic disorder, postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder, birth trauma, stress reaction after miscarriage or fertility related stress. 70-80% of women experience, at a minimum, postpartum “baby blues.” We consider Perinatal Mental Health the earliest intervention for Childhood Mental Health, and we’re here to support you in building a healthy attachment and relationship with your baby. We offer support, relaxation and stress-reduction skills, traumatic stress reprocessing and desensitization, mental health labor and delivery plans and other preparation for motherhood to our perinatal clients. 

We are dedicated to serving individuals suffering from posttraumatic stress. We believe the goal of trauma treatment is not to “get over it” but to heal from it. Through trauma treatment, you are able to regain control over yourself and manage your triggers. We treat trauma through Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).

TFCBT is a cognitive behavioral approach to counseling that involves learning about trauma, using relaxation skills, affective expression skills and cognitive coping skills, addressing automatic negative thoughts, processing traumatic memories and enhancing safety for individuals. Through TFCBT, we provide a supportive environment where you are encouraged to talk about your traumatic experiences and learn skills to help you cope with life stressors.