Individual & Family Therapy
Support for individuals & families through every stage of life.
Therapy can help individuals and families build greater insight, confidence, and a stronger sense of control in their lives. Humankind provides client-centered, trauma-informed individual and family therapy for adults, adolescents, children, and families. Sessions are available in person and through a secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth platform for clients located in West Virginia and Virginia.
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
In individual therapy, treatment is provided one-on-one and tailored to each client’s unique needs. The therapist and client work together to process difficult emotions, strengthen coping skills, explore thinking patterns and behaviors, and reduce symptoms that may be affecting daily life. We provide individual therapy for children, adolescents, and adults.
Children and adolescents often benefit when parents or caregivers are involved in the therapeutic process. A more holistic approach can help caregivers learn how to support progress at home by reinforcing skills, providing reminders, practicing strategies, and listening. Parents and caregivers can also provide valuable information that helps guide treatment planning. Because children and adolescents spend much of their time at home and in the community, caregiver involvement can help extend therapeutic progress beyond the counseling session.
FAMILY THERAPY
Family therapy focuses on strengthening relationships and improving how family members communicate and work through challenges together. Treatment may address communication difficulties, conflict, boundaries, family roles, stress, and patterns of interaction that affect the overall functioning of the family.
Family therapy may include all family members or only those who are willing and able to participate. It is not limited to the traditional nuclear family and may include grandparents, aunts, uncles, domestic partners, caregivers, and other important family members. Common reasons families seek therapy include trauma, grief, incarceration, abuse, neglect, separation, divorce, domestic violence, parental conflict, and parent-child conflict.
Through individual and family therapy, clients can develop skills that strengthen relationships, improve communication, solve problems, navigate stressful situations, and support healthier family functioning over time.
“When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”