Individuals, couples, and families can engage in counseling and therapy to foster self-awareness and emotional healing through guided conversation. These confidential spaces are places to explore thoughts, feelings, and behaviors while identifying healthy coping strategies. Our clinicians engage in collaborative treatment planning, walking with clients on their mental health journey and incorporating a diverse range of modalities, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), psychodynamic approaches, psychosomatic practices, and more. These tools offer pathways for clients to better understand themselves, approach their goals, and develop insight – leading to change in their lives.
Individual Counseling
Responsive Centers offers individual counseling services for clients across the lifespan, with specialized services including play therapy and grief counseling. The therapeutic relationship is established as our clinicians tailor approaches and techniques to the individual client. Through compassionate listening, empathetic understanding, and nonjudgmental support, our clinicians nurture an environment of growth and transformation. Whether clients are addressing specific mental health concerns, such as anxiety, depression, and trauma, or navigating challenges around relationships, career, and identity, counseling is a collaborative, explorative process. Clinicians can equip clients with practical skills for stress management, emotional regulation, and improved communication.
Child Play Therapy
“For children, toys are their words and play is their language” (Landreth, 2002). Toys and play help children to process experiences and challenges in their world, and play therapy provides a safe, secure space for children to engage in processing. Children work through trauma or other difficulties at their own pace, without any outside pressure or judgment. Our clinicians make sure that children have control over their play and how they choose to express themselves. As the child works through their feelings, the clinician attaches words and emotions to something that may not have been verbally processed. This helps the creation of a new neural network and the overall processing of the challenge. With play therapy, children can create new, healthier pathways in the brain. Play therapy is appropriate for children around 3-12 years old.
Child and Adolescent Counseling
Mental health concerns are increasingly affecting children and adolescents in today’s world. At Responsive Centers, child and adolescent counseling can include traditional individual therapy and aspects of family therapy, using a variety of therapeutic modalities. Several clinicians focus and specialize their practice in working with children and/or adolescents. We provide counseling for children and adolescents experiencing depression, anxiety, ADHD, anger, behavioral struggles, family stressors, peer/social issues, overuse of electronics, school struggles, and other mental health and psychosocial concerns.
Family Counseling
Family counseling is often beneficial in addressing specific issues that affect the entire family system. It can be used as the primary mode of treatment or as a complementary approach (e.g. often, a member of the family may work with a clinician in individual counseling and have a second clinician that provides family counseling). Families can also benefit from these services when they experience any stressful event that creates strain in the system, helping to address mental health concerns that impact the children and adults in the family. Clinicians aim to promote understanding and collaboration among family members in order to address the concerns of one or more individuals. As the family better understands their situation, they can learn to support each other, working proactively and collaboratively to address issues.
Couples Counseling
We provide a safe and confidential space for couples to uncover their individual needs, highlight mutual interests, and reconcile barriers to engaging in a healthy relationship. Whether couples are discussing plans for the future or seeking marital support, our clinicians can help with navigating challenges and emphasizing relational strengths. There is no way to guarantee a successful marriage, relationship, or union, but support of this nature can help you figure out what it takes to ensure your relationship will flourish. These sessions are an opportunity for couples to discuss and address any potential pitfalls that could hinder the relationship. Issues that are often addressed in couples counseling include money management, personality features, communication styles, conflict resolution, and many other topics related to relationships and dynamics in a relationship. Another benefit of participating in couples counseling with a licensed clinician is being able to address the effects of mental health, substance abuse, or other clinical issues that may be affecting the relationship and learning skills to support one another and successfully manage concerns as a team.
Co-Parent Counseling
Co-parent counseling allows parents an opportunity to talk about the best interests of their children in a neutral and non-judgmental environment and, when appropriate, get input and advice from a professional who is experienced in working with children and families of divorce. Parents who are separated or divorced may benefit from co-parent counseling. Issues ranging from custody schedules to day-to-day parenting can be discussed and parents can be kept ‘on track’ when their discussion begins to drift from parenting issues to personal/marital issues that need to be kept distinct from the best needs of their child(ren). Specific treatment goals vary according to individual needs but generally, it will assist in establishing agreements regarding a schedule for when children are to be with each parent, areas for joint decision-making, means, and frequency of communication between parents, and any other issues that require attention. Parents seek co-parent consultation at all stages of post-separation parenting. It may help one or both parents resolve some of their anger or grief related to the ending of the relationship so that both can focus more fully on parenting issues without the intrusion of “unfinished business.” Some parents come in before separation to explore how to separate in a way that best supports their children’s needs. Others have been co-parenting for a while and want to strengthen their alliance, improve communication and decision-making, or reduce children’s exposure to unresolved conflict. When parents are able to create and maintain a strong parenting alliance after separation, children have a secure base to depend on while they grow.
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Responsive Centers
7501 College Blvd., Ste. 250, Overland Park, KS
66210-2505
