Our Services

“Find Your Peace”

When we’re confronted with major challenges or any other life transition, we can experience painful emotions and suffering. It’s often necessary to process these emotions with the help of a professional, in order to regain our sense of balance and purpose and with a renewed sense of hope for the future. Depression and anxiety can sometimes become difficult and can strip our lives of hope and contentment. Our therapists use treatment methods that are based on positive research outcomes, such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and faith-based counseling. We will support you in identifying negative beliefs and communication patterns that contribute to emotional pain, while assisting you in developing new coping skills and more effective ways of communicating with your loved ones.

Our therapists provide effective and compassionate counseling to clients dealing with some of the following concerns:

Managing life transitions

Conflict management

Stress management

Anxiety

Depression and other mood disorders

Grief and loss

Single life navigation

Struggles with our faith

“Find Your Relationship”

Our therapists use the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), practical and hands-on approaches that teach couples how to communicate in a more effective and empathic way. John Gottman’s research has shown that in order for a relationship to last, couples must first learn how to manage conflict, become better friends and support one another’s dreams for the future.

Donna Platt has completed all 3 levels of training with the Gottman Institute, and has the experience, knowledge and expertise to assist couples in building or rebuilding a healthy relationship. This type of therapy provides the couple with opportunities to experiment with new ways of being together, so they can ultimately make more conscious choices about the kind of relationship they wish to create.

“Adapt To Loss”

Through grief counseling, you will gain:

A safe space to express your feelings. Therapists are trained to be nonjudgmental active listeners. That means their job is to create a safe space where you can feel comfortable honestly expressing your feelings without worrying about what they might think of you. They can be there to assure you that whatever you’re feeling is normal and okay.

Strategies for coping. When going through a difficult life experience like the grieving process, and accepting the loss of a loved one, it can be crucial to use healthy coping skills to manage it. A therapist can help you uncover strategies like these that are tailored to you personally.

Permission to focus on yourself. If your grief involves a death in the family, or if you are parents, you may fall into a caretaker role as you help others through their own bereavement. Or, you might be busy with logistics and not have allowed yourself time to feel; you may even feel guilty for the emotions you’re experiencing about the loss. In a one-on-one therapy appointment, you’ll have permission to focus on how you’re handling things—guilt- and judgment-free.

Healing at your own pace. Again, individual grief therapy is tailored to you specifically, especially when dealing with the pain of loss. That means counselors can help you approach the healing process from your own perspective and at your own pace, without feeling either rushed or held back by the way anyone else is experiencing the loss.

“Achieve Family Harmony”

Family therapy provides solution-focused interventions to assist families in learning how to manage conflict and improve and repair our closest relationships. We also offer parent coaching using Positive Discipline, a method that actively works with parents to identify causes behind your children’s or young adult’s misconduct and learn ways to gain cooperation and build self-esteem.

“Find Your Balance”

Our counselors have received extensive training in alcohol and drug counseling and can assist you with recovery and relapse prevention for substance abuse and codependency. We believe in an addiction philosophy that is self-directed and motivational, by meeting the client where they are and tailoring treatment to the client’s beliefs and values.

“Remain Calm”

The Anger Management Workbook and Curriculum comes out of an evolutionary and developmental viewpoint that everyone can learn new ways of responding to situations and develop a more fulfilling life.

As an Anger Management Educator I will guide you through one module per session/week. You will need to make a commitment in advance to set aside time for the entire twelve modules.

The Workbook and Curriculum’s is focused on developing an anger management life practice.

The best predictor of a positive outcome is your willingness to honestly examine and admit the consequences of your anger problem. Think for a moment what your anger has cost you in terms of your relationships, health, work life, and financial situation. You will need to be willing to look “inside” and take responsibility for your feelings and behavior. Are you ready.

The best version of yourself can begin right now.

“Unleash Your Future”

Stressed with the thought of or in the midst of change? Life coaching is a creative process that clarifies your path and defines a plan for navigating through the transition.

During the coaching process, we work together to uncover your values, needs, and desires, so that we can design a new path for you.

As your transition coach, we will define your vision, work through anything blocking your progress, and unleash your future.

At Platt Professional Counseling we have a passion for helping couples explore the secrets of building a marriage that lasts.

In a series of five sessions we use the SYMBIS (Save Your Marriage Before It Starts) Program which is designed specifically for today’s couples. This Program includes the SYMBIS Assessment which is an online assessment tool used by counselors and Churches across the country.

In the Program you will:

> Uncover the most important misbeliefs about marriage

> Learn how to communicate with greater understanding

> Discover the secret to reducing and resolving conflict

>Master the skills of money management

> Get you sex life off to a great start

> Understand the three essential ingredients to lasting love

> Discover the importance of becoming soul mates… and more.