Barbara Garvin Counseling PLLC
INDIVIDUALS
Teenagers
Being a teenager can be an especially challenging time in most people's lives. Some of the common issues we can address in therapy are:
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Conflict with parents
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Anxiety around life changes, school, or peers
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Bullying
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Stress or Emotion management
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Communication skills
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Self-Confidence
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Depression and/or suicidal ideation
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Trauma Symptoms
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Healthy Boundaries
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Adults
Whether you want to work on a specific issue or simply look for greater happiness and fulfillment in your life, we can work together toward those goals. Some common issues include:
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Depression/Suicidality or lack of Motivation
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Stress and Anxiety
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Grief and Loss
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Trauma or Challenging life events
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Relationship conflict
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Family relationships and Boundaries
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Self-Confidence and Fulfillment
COUPLES
Couples counseling can be helpful at any stage in a relationship, whether to strengthen a budding romance or to repair deep wounds and long-lasting disagreements. I welcome any type of committed partnership in which clients would like to learn how to have productive conflict, increase their understanding of their partner/s and create a deeper and more supportive connection with each other.
Common concerns for couples include:
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Conflict and Arguments
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Trust and Infidelity
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Connection and Intimacy
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Past or present Trauma
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Grief and Loss
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Parenting or Family issues
FAMILIES
Families come in many shapes and sizes, all of which are valid and deserve nurturing and care. Most families also experience difficulties communicating from time to time or struggle to find ways to cope with life's challenges.
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Whether you want to improve communication skills or spend more quality time together, struggle with frequent arguments or ways to set healthy boundaries with family members - I would be honored to work with you on reaching your goals.
TRAUMA
Many people have experienced some kind of traumatic event in their lives and for some that experience turns into an ever-present struggle. Trauma can get lodged in our brains when we do not have the opportunity to process the experience properly. Traumatic events can be a wide variety of different things, such as experiencing a natural disaster or serious accident, losing an important person suddenly, being exposed to abuse or violence, or receiving a scary diagnosis.
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Luckily the brain is a very plastic organ and there are effective ways to address and re-process traumatic events to significantly reduce symptoms of distress. It is one of the most meaningful parts of my job to be able to listen to these extremely vulnerable stories and to get to share in the process of re-writing and transforming them together with my clients.