We provide client-focused, goal-driven and evidence-based treatment designed to achieve immediate results and long-term recovery. We offer a full compliment of support services to assist with transition and readjustment both individually and through a comprehensive family care model.
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Adjustment Disorders
- Stress Reduction
- Trauma Resolution (PTSD)
- Behavioral Disorders (Autism, ADD, ADHD, ODD, CD)
- Mood Disorders
- Abuse (Physical, Mental and Sexual)
- Anger Management
- Sleep Disorders
- Conflict Resolution
- Grief & Loss
- Body Image Stress (Aging Insecurities and Self-Image)
- Eating Disorders (Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia)
- Bipolar Disorder
We offer specialized expertise in:
- Cognitive Processing Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) designed for trauma resolution
- DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) to balance acceptance and change, and focus on active problem solving skills
Referral to Mental Health Services
If you’re like most parents, you probably have very little experience accessing or using mental health services. But if you’ve been encouraged by the school to have your child evaluated for mental health treatment, or you personally think your child might benefit from counseling, even beginning the process may be bewildering and overwhelming. Here’s a list of answers to some of the questions asked most frequently by parents seeking mental health treatment for their children:
Bariatric Evaluations for Surgery
The goal is to assess the client for psychological fitness for the bariatric procedure and resulting major lifestyle changes before the surgery is performed.
Adolescents
Adolescence is an emotionally tumultuous time when a young adult is dealing with several age-related adjustments. AspenPointe Counseling offers both individual and group therapy for youth struggling with behavioral disorders, anxiety and/or depression.
Parenting Adolescents
The parenting adolescents program is designed for all parents and caregivers of teenagers whose behavior has enter into the extreme or out-of-control stage.
Emotional and Psychological Trauma
When bad things happen, it can take awhile to get over the pain and feel safe again. But treatment and support from family and friends can speed your recovery from emotional and psychological trauma. Whether the traumatic event happened years ago or yesterday, you can heal and move on.
Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI), a form of acquired brain injury, occurs when a sudden trauma causes damage to the brain.
Child Abuse: The hidden bruises
It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of children are physically abused each year by a parent or close relative. Thousands die as a result of the abuse.
Child Sexual Abuse
Child sexual abuse has been reported up to 80,000 times a year, but the number of unreported instances is far greater, because the children are afraid to tell anyone what has happened, and the legal procedure for validating an episode is difficult.
Bipolar Disorder in Children and Teens
Bipolar disorder that starts during childhood or during the teen years is called early-onset bipolar disorder. Early-onset bipolar disorder seems to be more severe than the forms that first appear in older teens and adults.
Anxiety (GAD)
Generalized anxiety disorder (or GAD) is characterized by excessive, exaggerated anxiety and worry about everyday life events with no obvious reasons for worry. People with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder tend to always expect disaster and can't stop worrying about health, money, family, work, or school
Panic Attacks
At least 20% of adult Americans, or about 60 million people, will suffer from panic attacks at some point in their lives. About 1.7% of adult Americans, or about 3 million people, will have full-blown panic disorder at some time in their lives, with the peak age at which people have their first panic attack (onset) being 15-19 years.
Teen Stress
The teen years often bring about an increase in perceived stress as young adults learn to cope with increasing demands and pressures. Excessive stress during the teen years can have a negative impact upon both physical and mental health later in life.
Self Injury in Adolescents
Self-injury is the act of deliberately destroying body tissue, by cutting, burning, carving, etc to change the way a person is feeling at that time.
Teens: Alcohol and other Drugs
Teenagers abuse a variety of drugs, both legal and illegal. Legally available drugs include alcohol, prescribed medications, inhalants (fumes from glues, aerosols, and solvents) and over-the-counter cough, cold, sleep, and diet medications.
Bullying
Bullying behavior can be physical or verbal. Boys tend to use physical intimidation or threats, regardless of the gender of their victims. Bullying by girls is more verbal, usually with another girl as the target. Recently, bullying has even been reported in online chat rooms and through e-mail.
Eating Disorders
Eating disorders occur when a person’s attitude about food, weight and body size lead to very rigid eating and exercise habits that jeopardize one’s health, happiness and safety
Types of Eating Disorders
The idealization of thinness has caused distorted body image and unrealistic measures of beauty and success. Cultural and media influences such as TV, magazines and movies reinforce the belief that women should be more concerned with their appearance than with their own ideas or achievements
Domestic Violence
Domestic violence, or intimate partner violence, occurs when one person causes physical or psychological harm to a current or former intimate partner.It is the leading cause of injury to women in the United States (a woman is beaten every 15 seconds).
Teen Suicide
One of the leading causes of death amongst teenagers is suicide. The Centers for Disease control report that it is the third leading cause of death, behind accidents and homicide, of people aged 15 to 24. Even more disturbing is the fact that suicide is the fourth leading cause of death for children between the ages of 10 and 14.
Psychotherapy (Therapy)
Psychotherapy is often the first form of treatment recommended for depression. Called "therapy" for short, the word psychotherapy actually involves a variety of treatment techniques.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is based on the idea that our thoughts cause our feelings and behaviors, not external things, like people, situations, and events. The benefit of this fact is that we can change the way we think to feel / act better even if the situation does not change.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an integrative psychotherapy approach that has been extensively researched and proven effective for the treatment of trauma.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
All DBT involves two components:
1. An individual component
2. The group
Neither component is used by itself.
