Meeting individually for therapy is a wonderful form of self-care and maintenance.  Working as a collaborative team, you and your therapist will define what problems keep you from living the life you want to live, come up with solutions and talk about the person you want to become.  The experience will likely include several vantage points – past, present and future.  Your therapist will meet you where you are and make every effort to understand your perspectives.  We want you to feel welcome and safe in our office and in your therapeutic relationship.

Perspectives has a team ready to assist individuals of all ages and stages.
We are often called on to help children with anxiety, grief and loss, sadness, or other difficult developmental hurdles. We are also well equipped to handle the many surprises that life transitions bring to adolescents and adults such as depression, ineffective coping, addiction, relationship difficulties, job stress, anxiety, and many other concerns. 

Couples Therapy

Our marriage therapists work with couples who desire to reconcile and strengthen their relationship and also those who need assistance dissolving their relationship in a healthy and respective way for themselves and their children.

Infidelity is a specific problem many couples face and one that we are particularly well-suited to work with at Perspectives. Our marriage therapists are trained to guide couples through the aftermath of an affair. Discussions surrounding what to expect, how to rebuild trust and forgiveness are just a few topics that will be addressed throughout the therapy process. Recent literature describes the effects of infidelity parallel symptoms that follow a traumatic event. We work to both normalize the feelings you are experiencing as well as work to decrease their intensity and interference with daily life.

Two unique pre-marital counseling programs are offered through Perspectives, C.A.M.P. and Foundations.  Both programs aim at strengthening a couple with the goal of long-term relationship health and happiness.  They help couples identify their strengths and learn skills and strategies that are important in sustaining a happy future together.

Major topics for both programs include:

• Communication
• Conflict resolution
• Warning signs
• Common pitfalls
• Roles
• Expectations
• Life goals
• Spirituality
• Family-of-origin
• Personality

The therapists at Perspectives believe that conducting family therapy is both an art and a science.  We work to understand the perspective of each family member (whether in the room or not) and move quickly toward long-lasting change.  Family therapy can involve any number of family member relationships including parent-child, sibling systems, remarried families, and multiple generations of members trying to break dysfunctional patterns.