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Bethesda Mental Health Counseling

Bethesda Mental Health Counseling

Bethesda Mental Health Counseling provides you with psychotherapy services that use cutting-edge techniques in an atmosphere of trust and respect. At Bethesda mental health counseling, our approach is to closely monitor feedback from you and make changes in our approach to ensure optimum results.

Our Specialties

Bethesda mental health counseling specializes in various aspects of counseling:

One of our specialties is marriage and relationship issues, where therapists help couples built respect and trust and improve communication.

Premarital counseling can help build a solid foundation for a relationship.

Bethesda mental health counseling also provides help with treatment for addictions including alcohol, drug and food among others.

We provide anger management sessions, as well as treatments for anxiety and depression.

We also provide mind-body counseling and pain management counseling.

Why come to Us?

Bethesda mental health counseling can be differentiated from other psychotherapy in a few ways:

1) First, our focus is goal-directed based on what you wish to achieve and on dealing with the issues you face. We may help you focus on learning more about yourself so you can strengthen certain aspects of your personality but we’ll ask for your direction as much as you can give it.

2) Experiential tools (exercises done in the session) are used to help our clients become better at using their emotions in a productive manner. Some of these tools are designed to build more emotional intelligence, which can affect all aspects of success in life (check out Keith Miller’s interview on a local T.V. talk show discussing the importance of emotional intelligence).

3) Bethesda mental health counseling seeks to ensure that you are can determine if your therapy is actually helping you. We are willing to make changes to the therapy if the treatment is not working and we expect this will happen as a normal part of counseling.

4) Everyone at Bethesda mental health counseling works to ensure that you know we are on your side. When it becomes clear that you need to make changes in your life, we will make sure you feel deep support from us through encouragement and finding ways to build on your existing strengths.

5) We’ll do our best to ensure that we don’t dig into parts of your life that you aren’t ready to explore. While psychotherapy is known for challenging us to be honest with ourselves about parts of us we normally hide from view, we will respect your right to guide the depth and pace of exploration.

Our Systematic Approach to Bethesda Mental Health Counseling

Some of you may come to our Bethesda mental health counseling because you’ve heard that we use a very systematic form of counseling. This is called Internal Family Systems (IFS) or Self-Leadership. It is a modern approach that builds existing strengths while we work to remove any emotional blocks that stop you from achieving your best.

Many traditional psychotherapies naturally ask you to talk about yourself. But the problem is that we are almost always blended with emotions and we speak from those emotions. We can never quite see past ourselves to see who we really are. If you are a candidate for IFS therapy, we can help you unblend from your emotions, speak for these emotions, and develop a brand new way to understand and regulate your feelings. The difference, when you can separate yourself from your emotions, can be life-changing and can change the way you look at the world.

Everyone at Bethesda mental health counseling is highly-trained and experienced. We invite you to call today to set up an appointment to get the seasoned care and guidance you need.