What To Expect 

At Annesia Counseling everyone is welcome, treated with respect and dignity. Each client is valued and encouraged to maintain their individuality and self determination.

Each counseling session will be treated with strict confidentiality as per ACS Code of Ethics. Counselors at Annesia Counseling Services believe that clients can profit from corrective experiences.

What Happens At The First Session?

This first session is called the Intake session. This session takes about 90 minutes, as the counselor will do a psychosocial evaluation, followed by the goals in the form of a action plan. Both the client and the counselor must collaborate on the plan. This information gathering will allow the counselor to know as much as he/she can about the client and how he/she can best help the client in reaching their goals. Different types of counseling techniques are available and depending on the clients' needs the appropriate technique will be used.

Sessions are regularly scheduled for 50 minutes with 10 minutes wrap up time and evaluation of goal setting. Amount of sessions: Clients will determine this based on their progress and commitment to therapy. Counselor can help client determine the length of stay in therapy as recommended based on progress. Clients have the power to stop the session at any time for whatever reason. This wish will be respected.

Why Choose Counseling?

Counseling can help individuals, couples, and families.
  • Ease the pain of emotional injury
  • Maintain their integrity
  • Explore and discover their potential
  • Improve marital conflict
  • Improve relational commitment
  • Improve communication
  • Set appropriate boundaries
  • Provide invaluable problem solving tools
  • Improve parenting skills
  • Ease the discomfort of depression
  • With feelings of anxiety and loneliness
  • Alleviate stress
  • Ease pain of bereavement and other types of loss
  • Deal with experience abusiveness
  • With emotional support



Various Approaches to Counseling

Different types of counseling techniques are available and depending on the clients' needs the appropriate technique will be used. As a result the counselor will use an eclectic approach. This means that more than one technique may be used at the same time to get optimal results.

1. Psychotherapy: (talk therapy)

Is the treatment used for emotional and behavioral problems through psychological techniques,. Psychotherapy involves conversation, or verbal interaction between the counselor and the client.
Psychotherapy helps the client uncover the factors that contribute to the depression, or other factors causing any emotional pain.

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2. Cognitive Therapy:

The goal of therapy is to help clients identify any negative unrealistic thoughts about themselves and others.
Teaches them how to have more positive realistic thoughts. Clients are given homework to facilitate their progress in counseling.

3. Solution Focused:

The belief is that the client has resources, and brings with them the solutions to their problems. Often times a single session can meet the needs of many of the clients.

4. Counselor is non-judgmental toward the client.

5. Interpersonal Therapy:

Helps clients deal with conflict with significant others, friends, family, peers and work mates. This type of therapy focuses on conflict resolution, and getting along with others. The goal is to have a positive relationship with others.

6. Family Therapy:

The counselor works with all family members at the same time,  allowing him/her to directly observe the  dynamics, interaction and resolve differences.

7. Couples Therapy:

  Focuses on helping clients who are in a committed relationship. Couples therapy usually emphasizes improving communication, strengthening the relationship bond and increasing intimacy.

* Goal of psychotherapy is for permanent behavioral changes and persistence long after therapy is completed. Research findings state that people make gains as a result of psychotherapy and tend to last sometimes for years (Lambert & Bergin 1994)