Individual, Family & Couples Therapy
Compassionate Care - Tailored to You
Psychotherapy is all about you. You are struggling and you want to feel better - and that’s what we’re here for. With expert training and years of experience to guide us, our therapists will draw on diverse methods to help you meet your goals.
What do you need, value, dream of, and struggle with? And equally as important: what are your superpowers? We are here to discover that, together with you, as we empower you to create the changes you crave.
Eating Disorders
-
Disordered Eating
Are you tired of struggling with feelings of guilt and shame around food choices or your body shape and size?
Is your self-esteem linked to how much you weigh or what you think you look like?
Do you worry about how your weight will affect your health.
Our team of experts can help disrupt the shame-cycle so you can eat without distress and enjoy life again.
We can help you find peace with your body and with food.
-
Anorexia
You thought you just wanted to loose a little weight, exercise a bit more, improve your self esteem.
You may imagine, still, that dropping just a few pounds will finally make you feel better.
But it doesn’t end…the urge to eat less, weigh less, feel less — and it’s not getting better.
We understand what’s happening and can help you stop the cycle.
Our experts have helped thousands of people, just like you, recover from anorexia. We are here to help you, too.
-
Bulimia
It feels chaotic, wanting so desperately to do this food thing differently — but just when you think you’ve got it right, an intense urge arises that catapults you back to despair, once again.
Whether it’s through restricting, binging, self-induced vomiting, laxative abuse, diuretics, excessive exercise, or medications (prescribed or otherwise), bulimia spins a web that’s hard to untangle.
Therapy with our eating disorder specialists can help set you free! We get it and we’re here for you.
-
Binge Eating/Compulsive Overeating
Do you find yourself repeatedly eating beyond the point of fullness or binging ‘til you’re in pain?
Do you feel shame about your eating and/or eat in secret?
Have you made numerous attempts to lose weight, finding yourself compelled to overeat at every turn?
Our eating disorder specialists understand you too! We get binging and we can help you recover!
You are not alone.
-
ARFID
If you have been told you are a picky eater, prefer to stick with a few “safe” foods, or have desperately tried to avoid social situations in which you’d be expected to eat a wide range of foods, you may have ARFID (Avoidant & Restrictive Food Intake Disorder).
One of the more recently understood eating disorder subtypes, the challenges with ARFID are more about sensory experiences than about obsession with weight (though weight can also be impacted).
Our eating disorder specialists have a treatment model for ARFID and can help you discover a fuller relationship with food. You deserve to nourish yourself with ease and we can help.
-
Orthorexia
Do you feel consumed by trying to find or prepare food that is clean, pure, non-toxic, or organic?
Do you find yourself avoiding social activities around food, or in conflict with friends or family about what foods are healthy enough to eat?
Despite the fact that you are doing everything to feel better, do you feel worse as the days progress?
Paradoxically, Orthorexia may be depriving you of the nourishment and health you so desperately crave.
Our experts can help you become free from the rules that bind you so you can live your best life.
-
Diabulimia
If you have Type 1 diabetes and have intentionally restricted insulin in an attempt to control your weight, you may have an eating disorder informally known of as “Diabulimia.” This dangerous process that results in a manipulation of blood sugars can have severe and life-threatening complications.
Our eating disorder specialists can help you recover from the low self esteem, fear, and obsession that drives this behavior, so that you can care for yourself and your diabetes with the loving kindness you deserve.
You don’t have to suffer with this anymore - we are here to help.
-
Health at Every Size (HAES)
HAES is both a philosophy and a public health movement that encourages people of all body sizes to pursue health through sustainable, compassionate behaviors — not weight control.
At CAS Counseling, we believe all people have the right to live joyfully and healthfully in their body, as it is TODAY!
We believe the pursuit of weight loss perpetuates eating disorders, so we help our clients recover from the inside-out.
We can help you recover from all forms of disordered eating and body image struggles, using a non-restrictive, non-judgmental, and body-positive approach.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders
-
Anxiety
Does your mind interfere with simple activities by gnawing on worrisome thoughts?
Do you lose precious opportunities by wondering, “what if…” “if only…” or paralyzed by social anxiety?
Anxiety can be a response to real life stressors and can also become a patterned way for your nervous system to respond to life.
Our therapists can help you understand what’s happening, reset those patterns, and learn how to work with your mind to feel at peace in your day-to-day life.
-
Depression
Depression often feels like a weight pressing down on our life force, making it hard to function, interact with others, and spring back from challenges.
You deserve to feel like yourself again — and better.
Our experts have a vast array of clinically proven methods in our skillset to help you get there.
By scheduling an appointment, you’ll begin a journey to release the weight of depression, freeing you to face life with energy, hope and joy.
-
Perinatal Mood Disorders
Having a baby is a monumental life change. Additionally, the pressure to be blissful, to get a thousand things done, and the sheer responsibility to care for a tiny human, is tremendous!
If you feel anxious, depleted, overwhelmed, or unhappy, you are not alone.
Our experts have advanced training in postpartum depression and the full range of perinatal mood disorders. We can help you understand what’s happening and identify the supports you need to take good care of yourself and your baby.
(CAS also offers a free virtual weekly perinatal support group)
-
Grief
Grief is an experience many of us would rather avoid, as the sadness of loss can be overwhelming to face. Our therapists can help grief become a healing journey.
At CAS, we welcome you in whatever state you arrive, so there is no right way to begin. When grief is heavy on your heart, we’ll help you learn to cope with your new reality, process the loss, heal wounds associated with past relationships, and find a new kind of connection to your loved one as you move forward in life.
While grief is a part of life and love, healing is available to you.
Our therapists can help.
Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Disorders
-
Neurodiversity & Autism
If you identify with Autism, you may feel that other people have different ways of being social than you. Perhaps you have intense interests, repetitive behaviors, or sensory processing differences.
Living with neuro-cognitive differences can lead to difficulties with emotional regulation and struggles with friends, school or work.
Our experts can help you understand your challenges as well as hone your unique gifts.
You deserve to process the world on your own terms! We are here to help you learn how.
-
ADHD
Do you struggle with focus, hyper-focus, impulse control, or emotional regulation? Do you have difficulty managing academic pressures, workplace expectations, or life transitions?
Our therapists can help.
By addressing neurodevelopmental and cognitive differences in a holistic, non-judgmental and supportive manner, our experts can equip you with the tools and strategies you need to function in a world worthy of your attention.
You deserve to achieve your goals and we can help you get there.
-
OCD
Do you find yourself stuck in thought or behavior loops that make it hard to function in school, work, and with friends and family? Do you sometimes believe your thoughts can negatively impact others or that failing to complete a routine may have catastrophic consequences?
Our therapists can help feel better!
Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is highly effective and can significantly reduce symptoms, distress, and the impact OCD has on your daily life.
We don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach. Our highly skilled therapists will customize the treatment to you.
Don’t wait to start living. We can help.
Sex, Sexuality & Gender
-
Sex & Sexuality
Despite the fact that being sexual is central to being human, many people feel that talking about their sexual challenges is taboo.
Not so.
If you are struggling with low libido, shame, performance anxiety, trauma, religious or cultural guilt, compulsions, difficulty expressing your needs, body image issues, or desire discrepancies with a partner, we can help you.
Sex and sexuality can have a huge impact on mental health, relationships, and overall well being.
Don’t let silence be a barrier to your fulfillment. We can help.
-
Sexual Identity
Perhaps you are struggling with sexual orientation, coming out, homophobia, religious, cultural, or familial conflict, dating, relationships or wondering how to live authentically in a heteronormative environment.
We can help.
If you’re feeling confused, isolated, ashamed, or just seeking clarity about your identity, therapy for sexual identity can be life-changing.
It's not about changing who you are - it's about helping live more fully as yourself.
You deserve to be YOU. We can help.
-
Gender Identity & Dysphoria
Whether you’re questioning, transitioning, or living as a gender-diverse person in a world that often misunderstands or stigmatizes your experience, we can help.
Gender identity is about how you internally identify, and people don’t always see you the way you experience yourself. That can be isolating, scary, lonely, frustrating, enraging, and confusing.
Our therapists want to know you on the inside and have expertise helping people cope with all aspects of gender identity.
We’re here for you and we can help.
-
Intimacy in Relationships
Perhaps you’re feeling distant, stuck, or struggling to trust or open up. Maybe you want a relationship and don’t know how to get close to someone, or past wounds have made emotional, physical, or sexual intimacy feel scary or even off limits.
Therapy with one of or experts can help individuals or couples deepen their emotional, physical, and sexual connection.
You deserve to feel connected and we can help you get there.
Therapy can guide you toward a more satisfying, vulnerable, and safe connection with others - and with yourself.
Interpersonal & Life Challenges
-
Family Issues
All families struggle but when family issues interfere with your ability to have satisfying relationships and a full life, therapy can help.
Family therapy can help you understand relationship patterns and develop communication skills so that each family member feels seen and valued.
Individual therapy can help you understand the impact of your family history on you, your sense of self, and your relationships with others.
You deserve to feel better and we can help.
-
Couple & Relationship Struggles
All relationships go through ups and downs and it can be difficult to identify what fluctuations are normal and when to reach out for help.
If you are struggling with your partner, feeling unheard or undervalued, you don’t have to muscle through it alone.
Relationship counseling can help you both identify what’s positive and working well, while shifting patterns of conflict and deadlock to return to a loving and joyful relationship.
-
School & Academic Stress
Do you feel stressed, frustrated, anxious or overwhelmed because of school?
Academic stress can take many forms including anxiety, difficulty sleeping and avoidance of the work altogether.
We can help you learn to cope, understand the roots of your anxiety, and teach you skills to be successful in school.
You can achieve your best and still have balance in your life.
We can help.
-
Life Transitions
Major life transitions can include moves, job changes, layoffs, retirement, becoming an empty nester, divorce, starting to date again, medical diagnoses, becoming a caregiver, and more. Shifts related to age and sense of identity can also be disconcerting.
Development is a lifelong process and therapy can help you embrace whats’s new while feeling connected to what you value from the past.
Our therapists understand how major life changes can affect you. We can help you cope with these changes so that you feel empowered.
Trauma & Sexual Abuse
-
Trauma
Trauma is a deeply distressing or disturbing experience that overwhelms a person's ability to cope. It can be single or repeated and it can be blatantly obvious or subtly invisible. Trauma affects everyone differently.
The word “Trauma” is used a lot these days and you may be wondering if it apples to you. You may have the tendency to minimize your pain and may think you don’t have the right to call it trauma. Remember, trauma effects everyone differently.
Our experts can help you understand what trauma is for you and how to cope with it in ways that feel safe, effective, and practical.
We can lead you out of the overwhelm and into your life.
-
Sexual Abuse
If you have been the victim of sexual abuse, you may have carried shame that didn’t belong to you. You may have been confused by what happened and wondered if it was your fault. (It wasn’t! No matter what - It never is!) You may have kept your pain a secret and felt lonely and isolated.
We can help you feel better.
Therapy with one of our experts can help you connect to safety and self worth until you feel it inside. You can be free of the shame, isolation, and loneliness that has haunted you and begin to experience yourself and relationships with emotional and physical safety, satisfaction and joy.
Break the silence. We’re here to help.
-
PTSD
If you struggle with flashbacks, intrusive thoughts about past trauma, nightmares, or fear of being “triggered” in your day-to-day life, you may be suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD.
Utilizing a wide range of evidence-based approaches, including IFS (Internal Family Systems), TF-CBT (Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), CPT (Cognitive Processing Therapy), PE (Prolonged Exposure Therapy), Somatic Therapies and Mindfulness-based therapies) we can help you find inner peace and a deep sense of emotional safety.
You do not have to suffer alone. We are here and we can help.
-
Dissociative Disorders
If you have learned to dissociate to survive traumatic experiences and have coped by internally splitting off from parts of yourself, you are a resourceful and creative person! Dissociation is the mechanism of a brilliant brain!
Perhaps, however, that coping strategy has also had some distressing consequences and now you are suffering from the dissociation, itself.
Working together in a safe and trusting space, our therapists can help you establish the internal safety you long for - allowing you to come together (without losing anyone)!
We are here for you and can help you heal.