Children's Advocate ABA techniques can be used to teach a variety of skills and positive behaviors including: Communication, Positive peer interactions, self-help skills, academics, fine and gross motor skills, play and leisure skills, life skills, any many other skills. Children's Advocate uses an individualized approach to best meet your needs and lifestyle. If you are struggling with negative behaviors and emotions that are preventing you from reaching your potential, please contact our office today to schedule an appointment with Children's Advocate Licensed Professionals!

You’ve taken the important first step of looking for help. It is my desire to work with you or your child in an open, caring, and supportive environment while addressing the concerns that led you to seek help. Together we can identify ways for you to reach your goals. Our approach to therapy will be collaborative, keeping your objectives in sight during each of our sessions. My clinical experience will help you discover and utilize your strengths to address conflicts, develop healthy coping skills and build satisfying relationships.

I recognize that it takes a great deal of courage and self-empowerment to begin the process of looking inward. I want to assist you in evoking this self-exploration in a comfortable and supportive space, allowing you to ultimately gain more control over your life struggles. My approach to therapy is fundamentally collaborative and affirming. I am here to meet you where you're at so we can make steps down your personal path together. I want to help you to better understand your own feelings, thoughts, behaviors, and means of coping to move you toward feeling more like your authentic self.

As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at Life Strategies, I believe that each person has the ability to achieve the change they desire in their lives. By working together in a collaborative way, we utilize effective strategies to address your specific concerns, provide helpful tools and build upon your strengths so you can move forward in attaining your goals.

Welcome to my practice. I believe that my passion for working with and helping others combined with over 30 years of work with individuals, families and children in a variety of settings brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our work together. I provide thoughtful, compassionate counseling to help bring about personal growth and change. We will work to develop insight to improve understanding of thoughts and feelings, improve communication and relationships, develop coping skills for anxiety and depression, and resolve conflict that interfers with peace and balance in your life.

Well done! You have decided to take the first step. Considering therapy is very courageous. Often times amazing individuals struggle silently with painful emotions, unwanted behaviors and strained relationships. As a therapist that focuses on your strengths, I am dedicated to providing a safe, healing environment in which you can discover underlying beliefs and feelings that may hinder your growth. As you become more self-aware, insight will follow. With insight intentional change can begin. Change is experienced at your own pace.

It takes courage to move toward making changes in each of our lives. As a practical, interactive, solution-focused therapist, my treatment approach is to provide support and interactive feedback to help my clients address current challenges and long-standing issues. My sensitivity and compassion, helps bring resolution to a wide range of life challenges and psychological issues. With an integration of various methods, I draw from multiple styles and techniques to incorporate what is most helpful for each individual client. Working together each client and I can build on the individuals strengths and work towards achieving their goals.

There are many reasons people seek out counseling, but the underlying reasons are that we are looking for change, meaning, or healing. Whatever your individual needs may be, I commend you for taking the first steps in addressing your situation head-on. Each client is unique, and therefore, there is no one right approach that may work best for everyone. Because of this, I use a trauma-informed integrative style to give you, the client, space to be yourself in an empathic and non-judgmental environment.

I welcome individuals struggling with a wide range of issues interfering with the ability to function and to feel one's best. My office is your personal space to process thoughts and concerns in a supportive and non-judgmental environment. My clients are individuals struggling with depression and anxiety that may stem from relationship issues, job stress, trauma, a sense of meaninglessness, and loss. Some clients present with a general feeling that something they cannot pinpoint needs to be explored. 40% of my clients are women and 60% are men.

I know you are questioning whether this is something you should consider. However, I want you to know that just recognizing there is something weighing you and your family down is enough to move forward. I provide support and practical feedback to help people resolve current problems and longstanding patterns.

l want to help you jump-start your journey to an enjoyable life. I am dedicated to assisting you to get through whatever struggles have brought you or your loved one to look on this page. My passion is to come along side individuals who are struggling to manage their life and return hope and direction to the weary. My years of work in the mental health field has allowed me the opportunity to deliver effective assistance to people of all walks of life. I have extensive experience working with teens and young adults helping introspect thoughts and feelings combined with distress tolerance, better communication, conflict resolution.

I help clients help themselves using a client-centered and strengths based approach. I provide a supportive, caring, and empathic environment. The therapeutic relationship that develops becomes an important instrument of change. In this setting, I target a client's identified area of distress. I utilize an eclectic approach to therapy, working with individuals, couples, and families in a private, confidential setting. I believe in providing unconditional positive regard for clients in order to facilitate an atmosphere of understanding and acceptance. My experience covers all stress-related issues, anxiety, depression, trauma, women's issues, and conflict resolution.

Life often takes courage. Making changes, choosing new directions and healing past wounds all require courage. If you could use some encouraging, objective feedback, and a safe place to consider possibilities, therapy may help you.

Studies prove that unaddressed childhood trauma can negatively impact an individual’s ability to function in life as an adult. Children often develop distortions about their value and uniqueness. Processing this now may save you and your child a lot of heartache later. My compassionate approach to therapy is holistic, meaning that I take into consideration how different life events and people affect the whole person. I create a specific treatment plan for the client that fits their needs. Life challenges are a constant, but with the right strategies, a child can learn how to handle and navigate through them with confidence.

It takes courage to begin a process of change. I look forward to collaborating with you on the adjustments you plan to make personally and in your relationships. During our time together, I will strive to create a safe and appropriate process to address your specific needs. My therapy approach incorporates a variety of evidence-based treatment methods and highlights your personal strengths. Throughout our sessions, you will experience a validating partnership that empowers you to make your desired changes. Therapy sessions can take place in the office, over the phone, or through video chat.

Reaching out for help is often one of the most difficult things any person can face. So, congratulations on taking the first step to make positive changes in your life. Life can be overwhelming and stressful. I believe we all need a little help at times.

Main Street Counseling, is an independently owned and operator private practice in Crown Point, Indiana. To read the bios of all the clinicians on staff please visit our website @ www.counselingincrownpoint.com. Cindy is a licensed clinical social worker and a licensed clinical addictions counselor. She brings over 20 years of experience working with children, adolescents and their families. She has extensive experience working with borderline personality disorder, depression and anxiety with adults. Cindy is a skill based therapist using a broad range of techniques and interventions adapted for each client.

My focus is to empower families by improving their relationships and communication so family members are more of a support than a burden to each other. Family issues that I commonly treat are couple's communication, sexual issues in a relationship, mixed-agenda couples (where one is considering a divorce), co-parenting after a divorce, behavior issues with children, as well as abuse or neglect in families. I also help families where a member struggles with self-injury, depression, or anxiety.

Whether you struggle with the racing thoughts, and scary physical sensations of panic attacks and anxiety, or the sadness, emptiness and fatigue common with depression, you feel unable to live your life the way things are now. No longer able to 'push through' your feelings, you feel drained, and unsure what to do. Your family may not always understand therapy, but you recognize that you would be helped by talking with someone who gets it, who has the training, empathy, and insight to help you through this time in your life. You're not looking for a quick fix, but long-lasting change and insight.

At Life Strategies, we understand that the happiness and well-being of your child and family are extremely important to you, and we are passionate about assisting you in the growth process. We provide autism ABA Therapy & offer more traditional office counseling services for children, couples, & adults. Our ABA team has extensive experience in providing both in-home and in-center ABA, one of the most effective treatment options for children with autism. Through years of experience, in a caring and supportive environment, we help families and children make lasting gains.